Elise Mertens and Danka Kovinic will face off in the 3rd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 11 am on Court 1. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and the 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 -> 1.26
Danka Kovinic -> 4.2
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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Danka Kovinic
This will be the 2nd time that Elise Mertens and Danka Kovinic fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Mertens (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
Elise Mertens
Ranked no. 20, Mertens reached the 3rd round after beating Su-Wei Hsieh 6-3 6-1 and Magda Linette 6-2 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Mertens had a good straight sets win against Linette (6-2 6-4). During the match Mertens scored 61 points vs Linette’s 42. The Belgian was quite aggressive to blast 21 winners.
Regarding the service games, Mertens recorded 2 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Overall, Elise Mertens was exceptionally effective on serve to win 78% (21/27) of her 1st serve and 56% (14/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Elise broke Linette 4 times after converting 44% of her break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Mertens hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to win 59% of the points she played.
Mertens has a solid win-loss record in the last 8 years having won 66% of her matches (330-173). 6-2 on clay in 2020. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Mertens has a 78-43 record in the last 8 years on clay.
Mertens’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in Prague.
The Belgian has a 25-9 win-loss record in 2020, 6-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Rome
The Belgian lost in the 1st round to Venus Williams.
Danka Kovinic
Ranked no. 86, Kovinic reached the 3rd round after defeating Ulrikke Eikeri 6-2 6-1, Katarzyna Kawa 3-6 6-4 6-3, Julia Goerges 6-1 6-0 and Belinda Bencic 6-3 6-1.
In the 2nd round, The had a good straight sets win against Bencic (6-3 6-1). During the match Kovinic scored 59 points vs Bencic’s 38. The was extremely aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Kovinic couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 4 double faults. Danka Kovinic conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 3 break points. Furthermore, Kovinic put 71% of her first serves in, winning 88% (30/34) of the points behind her 1st serve and 29% (4/14) on the 2nd serve. Danka broke Bencic 4 times after converting 50% of her break points (4/8).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Danka has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 59% of the points she played.
Danka has a 7-6 win-loss record in 2020, 6-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Last year in Rome
Danka didn’t compete in Rome in 2019.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Mertens | Kovinic |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 9 |
| Tot Games | 34 | 72 |
| Pts | 122-84 | 276-194 |
| Total Points | 206 | 470 |
| Winners | 43 | 93 |
| %Winners | 35% | 34% |
Mertens played 2 matches while Kovinic competed in 4 matches. Kovinic started her run from the qualifications while Mertens had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Danka Kovinic conceded 1 set while Elise Mertens hasn’t lost a set so far. Mertens has played 5 set(s) less than Kovinic (4 vs 9). Therefore, Mertens played 38 games less than Kovinic. Elise scored 43 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Danka bagged 93 winners (34%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Mertens | Kovinic |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 2 |
| 1st in | 57/101 | 131/239 |
| %1st in | 56% | 55% |
| 1st pts | 43/57 | 93/131 |
| %1st pts | 75% | 71% |
| 2nd pts | 22/44 | 56/108 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 52% |
Mertens fired 6 aces (3 per match). Kovinic blasted 8 aces (2 per match). Mertens won 75% points on her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Kovinic won 71% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 52% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Mertens | Kovinic |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 10 | 21 |
| Converted | 10/20 | 21/37 |
| % Converted | 50% | 57% |
| Conceded | 7 | 26 |
| Saved | 4 | 19 |
| % Saved | 57% | 73% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 7 |
Mertens broke her opponents 10 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Belgian conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 57% of the break points that she conceded. The broke her opponents 21 times with a 57% conversion rate. Danka conceded her serve 7 times and she saved 73% of the break points that she conceded.
| Mertens | ||||
| R1 Hsieh |
R2 Linette |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-1 | 6-2 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 18 | 34 | |
| pts | 61-42 | 61-42 | 122-84 | |
| Total points | 103 | 103 | 206 | |
| Winners | 22 | 21 | 43 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 34% | 35% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 30/49 | 27/52 | 57/101 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 52% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 22/30 | 21/27 | 43/57 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 78% | 75% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/19 | 14/25 | 22/44 | |
| % 2nd pts | 42% | 56% | 50% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 6 | 4 | 10 | |
| Converted | 6/11 | 4/9 | 10/20 | |
| Converted % | 55% | 44% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 2 | 7 | |
| Saved | 3/5 | 1/2 | 4 | |
| Saved % | 60% | 50% | 55% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Kovinic | ||||||
| Q1 Eikeri |
Q3 Kawa |
R1 Goerges |
R2 Bencic |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-1 | 3-6 6-4 6-3 | 6-1 6-0 | 6-3 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 28 | 13 | 16 | 72 | |
| pts | 60-35 | 101-93 | 56-28 | 59-38 | 276-194 | |
| Total points | 95 | 194 | 84 | 97 | 470 | |
| Winners | 15 | 29 | 19 | 30 | 93 | |
| %Winners | 25% | 29% | 34% | 51% | 34% | |
| SERVE | ||||||
| Aces | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | |
| 1st in | 24/47 | 50/101 | 23/43 | 34/48 | 131/239 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 50% | 53% | 71% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 15/24 | 29/50 | 19/23 | 30/34 | 93/131 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 58% | 83% | 88% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/23 | 25/51 | 12/20 | 4/14 | 56/108 | |
| % 2nd pts | 65% | 49% | 60% | 29% | 52% | |
| Breaks | ||||||
| Won | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 21 | |
| Converted | 6/8 | 6/11 | 5/10 | 4/8 | 21/37 | |
| Converted % | 75% | 55% | 50% | 50% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 19 | 1 | 3 | 26 | |
| Saved | 1/3 | 14/19 | 1/1 | 3/3 | 19 | |
| Saved % | 33% | 74% | 100% | 100% | 154% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
Head 2 Head
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Tennis Scores in Rome
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Petra MarticMartic (6-3 6-72 6-4) – See score progression
- Polona HercogHercog – Kiki BertensBertens (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Shuko Aoyama/Ena ShibaharaAoyama/Ena Shibahara – Simona Halep/Monica NiculescuHalep/Monica Niculescu (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Arantxa RusRus (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Sofia KeninKenin (6-0 6-0) – See score progression
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Cori GauffGauff (7-63 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
- Johanna KontaKonta – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (6-0 6-4) – See score progression
- Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (4-6 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Magda LinetteLinette (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-3 7-64) – See score progression
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (4-6 7-63 6-4) – See score progression
- Simona HalepHalep – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Danka KovinicKovinic – Belinda BencicBencic (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Aliona BolsovaBolsova (4-6 6-1 7-64) – See score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (7-5 7-63) – See score progression
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Sofia KeninKenin (6-0 6-0) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Simona HalepHalep – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Johanna KontaKonta (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Polona HercogHercog – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Danka KovinicKovinic – Elise MertensMertens (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
