Elise Mertens and Magda Linette will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 3rd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11 am on Court 1. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
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 -> 1.176
Magda Linette -> 5.2
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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Magda Linette
This will be the 3rd time that Elise Mertens and Magda Linette square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Mertens (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Mertens won 6-3 6-4 in the 1st round in the 1100031277 back in 1970.
Elise Mertens
Ranked no. 20, Elise reached the 1st round after defeating Su-Wei Hsieh 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, Elise had a good straight sets win against Hsieh (6-3 6-1). During the match Mertens scored 61 points vs Hsieh’s 42. Mertens was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Regarding the service games, Mertens fired 4 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Elise Mertens lost the serve twice and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Mertens put 61% of her first serves in, winning 73% (22/30) of the points behind her 1st serve and 42% (8/19) on the 2nd serve. Elise broke Hsieh 6 times after converting 55% of her break points (6/11).
Mertens has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 66% of her matches (329-173). 5-2 on clay in 2020. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Mertens has a 77-43 record in the last 8 years on clay.
The Belgian’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in Prague.
Mertens has a 24-9 win-loss record in 2020, 5-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Rome
Mertens lost in the 1st round to Venus Williams.
Magda Linette
Ranked no. 35, the Pole got to the 1st round after beating Jelena Ostapenko 6-4 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Pole had a good straight sets win against Ostapenko (6-4 6-3). During the match Linette scored 67 points vs Ostapenko’s 61. The Pole was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Talking about serving, Linette blasted 2 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Magda Linette lost the serve twice and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Linette put 62% of her first serves in, winning 64% (21/33) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (10/20) on the 2nd serve. The Pole broke Ostapenko 5 times after converting 33% of her break points (5/15).
Her best result of the season was winning the title in Hua Hin where she defeated Leonie Kung in the final 6-3 6-2.
Magda has a 13-7 win-loss record in 2020, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Rome
Linette capitulated in the qualifications to Alize Cornet.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Mertens | Linette |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 19 |
| Pts | 61-42 | 67-61 |
| Total Points | 103 | 128 |
| Winners | 22 | 21 |
| %Winners | 36% | 31% |
Both Mertens and Linette played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Mertens and Linette have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Mertens played 3 games less than Linette. Mertens scored 22 winners (36% of the total points). On the other side, Magda recorded 21 winners (31%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Mertens | Linette |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 2 |
| 1st in | 30/49 | 33/53 |
| %1st in | 61% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 22/30 | 21/33 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 64% |
| 2nd pts | 8/19 | 10/20 |
| %2nd pts | 42% | 50% |
Mertens recorded 4 aces . Linette struck 2 aces . Mertens won 73% points behind her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 42% of the points. On the other side, Linette won 64% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Mertens | Linette |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 5 |
| Converted | 6/11 | 5/15 |
| % Converted | 55% | 33% |
| Conceded | 5 | 3 |
| Saved | 3 | 1 |
| % Saved | 60% | 33% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 |
Mertens broke her opponent 6 times with a 55% conversion rate. Mertens lost her serve twice and she saved 60% of the break points that she conceded. Linette broke her opponent 5 times with a 33% conversion rate. The Pole conceded her serve twice and she saved 33% of the break points that she conceded.
| Mertens | |||
| R1 Hsieh |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 61-42 | 61-42 | |
| Total points | 103 | 103 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 30/49 | 30/49 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 22/30 | 22/30 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/19 | 8/19 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 42% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/11 | 6/11 | |
| Converted % | 55% | 55% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 60% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Linette | |||
| R1 Ostapenko |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 67-61 | 67-61 | |
| Total points | 128 | 128 | |
| Winners | 21 | 21 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 33/53 | 33/53 | |
| % 1st in | 62% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 21/33 | 21/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 64% | 64% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/20 | 10/20 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/15 | 5/15 | |
| Converted % | 33% | 33% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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