Elise Mertens and Viktoria Kuzmova will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of Hobart International for the 2^nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 8:30 pm on CENTRE COURT.

Elise Mertens: results and record

Ranked no. 17, will start her run in Hobart after she played her last match in Hobart where she overcame 6-1 6-1 to Mchale in the 1^st round the 14^th of January.

Mertens has a 2-1 win-loss record in 2020, 2-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about her overall career, The Belgian has an overall 154-100 record. She has positive 80-47 record on hard.

Last year in Hobart

Elise didn’t play in Hobart in 2019.

Viktoria Kuzmova: results and record

Ranked no. 61, Kuzmova reached the 2^nd round after defeating Lin Zhu 5-7 6-2 7-6³.

Previous match vs. Lin Zhu

In the 1^st round against Zhu, The Slovakian recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 6-2 7-6³). During the match Kuzmova scored 129 points vs. Zhu’s 125. Kuzmova was extremely aggressive to blast 53 winners.

Talking about serving, Kuzmova blasted 8 aces and she was not very consistent on her 2nd serve to score 10 double faults. Viktoria Kuzmova lost the serve 5 times and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Kuzmova put 62% of her first serves in, winning 69% (53/77) of the points behind her 1st serve and 35% (17/48) on the 2nd serve. The Slovakian broke Zhu 6 times after converting 35% of his break points (6/17).

Kuzmova winning performance

Kuzmova has a solid win-loss record in the last 7 years having won 60% of her matches (170-114). 1-1 on hard in 2020 Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Kuzmova has a 78-61 win-loss record in the last 7 years on hard.

Viktoria has a 1-1 win-loss record in 2020, 1-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Last year in Hobart

The Slovakian lost in the 2^nd round 6-7³ 6-4 6-1 to Kirsten Flipkens.

Draw

Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Viktoria Kuzmova

This will be the 2^nd time that Elise Mertens and Viktoria Kuzmova play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Mertens (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Mertens won 6-2 6-1 in the 1^st round in at the Australian Open back in 2018.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elise Mertens who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Elise Mertens is the pick to win this match.
Elise Mertens -> 1.16
Viktoria Kuzmova -> 5.00

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Head 2 Head

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Rank

30

High

12

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Win Loss

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Kuzmova

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13 - 9

0 - 0

9-7

Hard

0-0

1-1

I Hard

0-0

3-1

Clay

0-0

Tennis Scores in Hobart

• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Yafan WangWang (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
• Lizette CabreraCabrera – Caroline GarciaGarcia (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Alize CornetCornet – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (7-5 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Christina MchaleMchale (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Shuai ZhangZhang – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (4-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Catherine Cartan BellisCartan Bellis – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (3-6 7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Fiona FerroFerro – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (4-4 ret.) – See score progression
• Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Nina StojanovicStojanovic (1-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Magda LinetteLinette – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (7-6² 7-6⁹) – See score progression
• Lauren DavisDavis – Astra SharmaSharma (6-3 3-6 7-6⁶) – See score progression
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Samantha StosurStosur (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – Lin ZhuZhu (5-7 6-2 7-6³) – See score progression
• Heather WatsonWatson – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (1-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Christina MchaleMchale (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Alize CornetCornet – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (7-5 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Lizette CabreraCabrera – Caroline GarciaGarcia (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Shuai ZhangZhang – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (4-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Yafan WangWang (6-1 7-5) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (0-0) – See H2H details
• Elise MertensMertens – Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova (1-0) – See H2H details
• Heather WatsonWatson – Fiona FerroFerro (1-0) – See H2H details
• Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Lizette CabreraCabrera (0-0) – See H2H details
• Magda LinetteLinette – Lauren DavisDavis (1-2) – See H2H details
• Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Shuai ZhangZhang (2-2) – See H2H details
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Catherine Cartan BellisCartan Bellis (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (0-0) – See H2H details

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