Elise Mertens and Alize Cornet will play each other in the 1^st round of the Abu Dhabi Tennis Open for the 3^rd time of their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 3:00 pm 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 -> 1.3
Alize Cornet -> 3.66

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This will be the 3^rd time that Elise Mertens and Alize Cornet play each other. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Mertens won 7-5 6-4 in the 3^rd round in at the Australian Open back in 2018.

Elise Mertens

Ranked no. 20, the Belgian will start her run in Abu Dhabi after she played her last match in Linz where she lost 7-5 6-2 to Sabalenka in the final on the 15^th of November.

This will be the first match of the season on hard.

Talking about her overall career, The Belgian has an overall 339-177 record. She has a positive 189-85 record on hard.

Last year in Abu Dhabi

Mertens didn’t play in Abu Dhabi in 2020.

Alize Cornet

Ranked no. 53, Cornet will start her run in Abu Dhabi after she played her last match at the Paris where she lost 6-4 7-6(3) to Zhang in the 2^nd round on the 1^st of October.

This will be the first match of the year on hard.

In terms of her career, Cornet has an overall 467-366 record. She has a positive 185-151 record on hard.

Head 2 Head

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• 8Main
• 4ITF
• 7Minor

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• 6Main
• 3ITF
• 0Minor

Elise
Mertens

3:2

Alize
Cornet

Rank

34

High

12

2Hard0

0Clay1

1I.hard1

Rank

277

High

11

Win Loss

Mertens

LWLLWLWLWW

Cornet

LLLWWLWWWL

2024 2023 2022

27 - 25

8 - 13

17-15

Hard

0-5

1-1

I Hard

3-1

6-5

Clay

5-7

3-4

Grass

0-0

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• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Qiang WangWang (6-2 3-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Lin ZhuZhu (6-2 7-6¹) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Zarina DiyasDiyas (6-4 5-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Jamie LoebLoeb (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Bernarda PeraPera – Donna VekicVekic (7-6¹⁰ 2-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (7-6³ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Julien DubailDubail – Benjamin HassanHassan (6-4 5-7 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

• Sofia KeninKenin – Zhaoxuan YangYang (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Cori GauffGauff – Ulrikke EikeriEikeri (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Anna BondarBondar (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (2-1) – H2H and prediction
• Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Polona HercogHercog (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Kateryna BondarenkoBondarenko – Yafan WangWang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Danka KovinicKovinic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Arantxa RusRus – Xiyu WangWang (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Lucrezia StefaniniStefanini – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Marta KostyukKostyuk – Lucie HradeckaHradecka (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Tamara ZidansekZidansek – Jennifer BradyBrady (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Mona BarthelBarthel – Anastasia GasanovaGasanova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Elise MertensMertens – Alize CornetCornet (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Bianca TuratiTurati – Yaroslava ShvedovaShvedova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Heather WatsonWatson – Jodie Anna BurrageAnna Burrage (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Vera ZvonarevaZvonareva – Amandine HesseHesse (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jessica PegulaPegula – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-0) – H2H and prediction

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