Karolina Pliskova and Elise Mertens will clash against each other in the quarter of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 2nd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 7 pm on Campo Centrale. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Karolina Pliskova who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Karolina Pliskova is the pick to win this match.
Karolina Pliskova -> 1.83
Elise Mertens -> 2.07

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Prediction and head to head Karolina Pliskova vs. Elise Mertens

This will be the 2nd time that Karolina Pliskova and Elise Mertens square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Pliskova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.

Karolina Pliskova

Ranked no. 4, the Czech reached the quarter after beating Barbora Strycova 6-3 6-3 and Anna Blinkova 6-4 6-3.

In the 3rd round, The Czech had a good straight sets win against Blinkova (6-4 6-3). During the match Pliskova scored 69 points vs Blinkova’s 50. Pliskova was exceptionally aggressive to blast 29 winners.

Regarding the service games, Pliskova scored 2 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Karolina Pliskova lost the serve twice and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Pliskova put 60% of her first serves in, winning 81% (29/36) of the points behind her 1st serve and 46% (11/24) on the 2nd serve. Pliskova broke Blinkova 4 times after converting 67% of her break points (4/6).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Pliskova hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 59% of the points she played.

Pliskova has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 66% of her matches (447-229). 2-0 on clay in 2020. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Pliskova has a 79-52 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

Her best result of the season was winning the title in Brisbane where she defeated Madison Keys in the final 6-4 4-6 7-5.

Pliskova has a 11-5 win-loss record in 2020, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Last year in Rome

Karolina conquered the title last year in Rome after besting Johanna Konta .

Elise Mertens

Ranked no. 20, Elise got to the quarter after defeating Su-Wei Hsieh 6-3 6-1, Magda Linette 6-2 6-4 and Danka Kovinic 6-4 6-4.

In the 3rd round, Elise had a good straight sets win against Kovinic (6-4 6-4). During the match Mertens scored 61 points vs Kovinic’s 56. The Belgian was extremely aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about serving, Mertens fired 2 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Elise Mertens lost the serve twice and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Mertens put 52% of her first serves in, winning 72% (23/32) of the points behind her 1st serve and 47% (14/30) on the 2nd serve. Elise broke Kovinic 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Belgian hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 57% of the points she played.

Mertens’s best result of the current year was getting to the final in Prague.

Elise has a 26-9 win-loss record in 2020, 7-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Last year in Rome

Mertens surrendered in the 1st round to Venus Williams.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points Pliskova Mertens
Match played 2 3
Tot Set 4 6
Tot Games 37 54
Pts 129-91 183-140
Total Points 220 323
Winners 51 66
%Winners 40% 36%

Pliskova played 2 matches while Mertens competed in 3 matches. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Pliskova has played 2 set(s) less than Mertens (4 vs 6). Therefore, Pliskova played 17 games less than Mertens. Karolina scored 51 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Mertens recorded 66 winners (36%).

Serve Performance

Serve Pliskova Mertens
Aces 3 8
Avg per match 1.5 2.7
1st in 65/111 89/163
%1st in 59% 55%
1st pts 51/65 66/89
%1st pts 78% 74%
2nd pts 25/46 36/74
%2nd pts 54% 49%

Pliskova fired 3 aces (1.5 per match). Mertens recorded 8 aces (2.7 per match). Pliskova won 78% points behind her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Mertens won 74% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 49% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Pliskova Mertens
Won 8 14
Converted 8/12 14/25
% Converted 67% 56%
Conceded 4 13
Saved 1 8
% Saved 25% 62%
Times Broken 3 5

The Czech broke her opponents 8 times with a 67% conversion rate. The Czech dropped her serve 3 times and she saved 25% of the break points that she conceded. The Belgian broke her opponents 14 times with a 56% conversion rate. Mertens conceded her serve 5 times and she saved 62% of the break points that she conceded.

Pliskova
R2
Strycova		 R3
Blinkova		 Total
Score 6-3 6-3 6-4 6-3
Tot Set 2 2 4
Tot Games 18 19 37
pts 60-41 69-50 129-91
Total points 101 119 220
Winners 22 29 51
%Winners 37% 42% 40%
SERVE
Aces 1 2 3
Double Faults 3 5 8
1st in 29/51 36/60 65/111
% 1st in 57% 60% 59%
1st pts 22/29 29/36 51/65
% 1st pts 76% 81% 78%
2nd pts 14/22 11/24 25/46
% 2nd pts 64% 46% 54%
Breaks
Won 4 4 8
Converted 4/6 4/6 8/12
Converted % 67% 67% 67%
Conceded 1 3 4
Saved 0/1 1/3 1
Saved % 0% 33% 17%
Times Broken 1 2 3
Mertens
R1
Hsieh		 R2
Linette		 R3
Kovinic		 Total
Score 6-3 6-1 6-2 6-4 6-4 6-4
Tot Set 2 2 2 6
Tot Games 16 18 20 54
pts 61-42 61-42 61-56 183-140
Total points 103 103 117 323
Winners 22 21 23 66
%Winners 36% 34% 38% 36%
SERVE
Aces 4 2 2 8
Double Faults 2 4 3 9
1st in 30/49 27/52 32/62 89/163
% 1st in 61% 52% 52% 55%
1st pts 22/30 21/27 23/32 66/89
% 1st pts 73% 78% 72% 74%
2nd pts 8/19 14/25 14/30 36/74
% 2nd pts 42% 56% 47% 49%
Breaks
Won 6 4 4 14
Converted 6/11 4/9 4/5 14/25
Converted % 55% 44% 80% 56%
Conceded 5 2 6 13
Saved 3/5 1/2 4/6 8
Saved % 60% 50% 67% 89%
Times Broken 2 1 2 5

Tennis Scores in Rome

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