Elise Mertens and Viktoria Kuzmova will fight against each other in the 2nd round of Hobart International for the 2nd 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 1st round the 14th 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 2nd round after defeating Lin Zhu 5-7 6-2 7-63.
Previous match vs. Lin Zhu
In the 1st 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 2nd 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 2nd 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 1st 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
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