Elise Mertens and Ajla Tomljanovic will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Birmingham Classic for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 11:30 am on Ann Jones Court. Here the head to head stats and 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 -> 1.31
Ajla Tomljanovic -> 3.58
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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Ajla Tomljanovic
This will be the 2nd time that Elise Mertens and Ajla Tomljanovic square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Mertens (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on grass.
The last time that they locked horns, Mertens won 6-2 7-6(4) in the final in Rabat back in 2018.
Elise Mertens
Ranked no. 15, Mertens will start her run in Birmingham after she played her last match at the Paris where she lost 7-5 6-7(2) 6-2 to Sakkari in the 3rd round on the 5th of June.
Mertens has a composed 22-8 win-loss record in 2021, 0-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on grass.
Her best result of the year was winning the title in in Melbourne where she defeated Kaia Kanepi in the final 6-4 6-1.
Talking about her overall career, Mertens has an overall 359-184 record. She has a positive 28-20 record on grass.
Previously in Birmingham
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2018. See her history.
Ajla Tomljanovic
Ranked no. 76, Ajla will start her run in Birmingham after she played her last match at the Paris where she lost 6-2 6-3 to Pavlyuchenkova in the 2nd round on the 2nd of June.
The Australian has an aggregate 14-12 win-loss record in 2021, 0-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on grass.
In terms of her career, The Australian has an overall 311-244 record. She has a positive 23-22 record on grass.
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in Birmingham
- Coco VandewegheVandeweghe – Kateryna KozlovaKozlova (6-4 6-71 6-4) – See score progression
- Vitalia DiatchenkoDiatchenko – Naiktha BainsBains (7-61 6-3) – See score progression
- Caty McNallyMcNally – Kurumi NaraNara (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Yafan WangWang – Marina MelnikovaMelnikova (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Tereza MartincovaMartincova – Georgina Garcia-PerezGarcia-Perez (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Giulia Gatto-MonticoneGatto-Monticone – Eden SilvaSilva (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Elise MertensMertens – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Coco VandewegheVandeweghe – Kristyna PliskovaPliskova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Harriet DartDart – Caroline GarciaGarcia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Polona HercogHercog (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Madison BrengleBrengle – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Samantha StosurStosur – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lauren DavisDavis – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Vitalia DiatchenkoDiatchenko (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Heather WatsonWatson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Giulia Gatto-MonticoneGatto-Monticone (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Francesca JonesJones – Donna VekicVekic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fiona FerroFerro – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Nina StojanovicStojanovic – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Yafan WangWang (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Caty McNallyMcNally – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-1) – H2H and prediction