Elise Mertens and Kristina Mladenovic will play each other in the 2nd round of the Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 1:30 pm on Stadium. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and 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 -> 1.196
Kristina Mladenovic -> 4.85
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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Kristina Mladenovic
This will be the 6th time that Elise Mertens and Kristina Mladenovic clash against each other. The head to head is 3-2 for Mladenovic (see full H2H stats), but Mertens leads 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Mertens won 6-1 6-7(5) 6-3 in the 2nd round in New York back in 2020.
Elise Mertens
Ranked no. 17, Elise will start her run in San Jose after she played her last match in Tokyo where she lost 4-6 6-4 6-4 to Alexandrova in the 1st round on the 25th of July.
The Belgian has a composed 24-12 win-loss record in 2021, 13-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the season was winning the title in in Melbourne where she overcame Kaia Kanepi in the final 6-4 6-1.
Talking about her overall career, The Belgian has an overall 351-182 record. She has a positive 195-85 record on hard.
Previously in San Jose
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2018. See her history.
Kristina Mladenovic
Ranked no. 60, Kristina got to the 2nd round after beating Na-Lae Han 6-4 6-4.
In the 1st round, The French player had a good straight sets win against Han (6-4 6-4). During the match Mladenovic scored 70 points vs Han’s 56. Kristina was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Mladenovic scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 6 double faults. Kristina Mladenovic lost the serve 3 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Mladenovic put 54% of her first serves in, winning 75% (24/32) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (12/27) on the 2nd serve. Mladenovic broke Han 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).
Kristina has an overall 16-20 win-loss record in 2021, 4-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in San Jose
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Madison KeysKeys (7-5 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ana KonjuhKonjuh – Alison RiskeRiske (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Caroline GarciaGarcia (3-6 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Magda LinetteLinette – Petra MarticMartic (7-5 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Dekel BarBar (6-4 2-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel CukiermanCukierman – Dane WebbWebb (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Evan SongSong – Peter KobeltKobelt (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Elise MertensMertens – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (2-3) – H2H and prediction
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Sloane StephensStephens (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Claire LiuLiu – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Magda LinetteLinette (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ana KonjuhKonjuh – Shuai ZhangZhang (2-0) – H2H and prediction