Elise Mertens and Elena Rybakina will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Western & Southern Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 11:00 am on Court 7. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elena Rybakina who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Elena Rybakina is the pick to win this match.
Elena Rybakina -> 1.87
Elise Mertens -> 1.97
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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Elena Rybakina
This will be the 3rd time that Elise Mertens and Elena Rybakina play each other. The head to head is 1-1 (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Mertens won 7-6(4) 7-5 in the 2nd round in Madrid back in May 2021.
Elise Mertens
Ranked no. 16, the Belgian reached the 2nd round after beating Nadia Podoroska 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Elise had a good straight sets win against Podoroska (6-3 6-4). During the match, Mertens scored 72 points vs Podoroska’s 59. Elise was very aggressive to blast 27 winners.
Talking about the service games, Mertens made 4 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Elise Mertens was pretty efficient on serve to win 73% (27/37) of her 1st serve and 56% (19/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Elise broke Podoroska 3 times after converting 50% of her break points (3/6).
Mertens has a solid win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 66% of her matches (354-184). 16-6 on hard in 2021. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Mertens has a compiled198-87 record in the last 9 years on hard.
Her best result of the year was winning the title in in Melbourne where she beat Kaia Kanepi in the final 6-4 6-1.
Mertens has a composed 27-14 win-loss record in 2021, 16-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Cincinnati
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2020. See her history.
Elena Rybakina
Ranked no. 19, Rybakina got to the 2nd round after defeating Samantha Stosur 6-3 6-3.
In the 1st round, Rybakina had a good straight sets win against Stosur (6-3 6-3). During the match Rybakina scored 64 points vs Stosur’s 41. The Kazakhstani was very aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about serving, Rybakina managed to score 8 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Elena Rybakina was quite effective on serve to win 90% (19/21) of her 1st serve and 72% (18/25) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Rybakina broke Stosur 3 times after converting 38% of her break points (3/8).
The Kazakhstani’s best result of the year was reaching the bronze in Tokyo.
Rybakina has a composed 25-17 win-loss record in 2021, 12-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Mertens | Rybakina |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 19 | 18 |
| Pts | 72-59 | 64-41 |
| Total Points | 131 | 105 |
| Winners | 27 | 19 |
| %Winners | 38% | 30% |
Both Mertens and Rybakina played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Mertens and Rybakina have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Mertens played 1 game more than Rybakina. Elise scored 27 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Rybakina made 19 winners (30%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Mertens | Rybakina |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 8 |
| 1st in | 37/71 | 21/46 |
| %1st in | 52% | 46% |
| 1st pts | 27/37 | 19/21 |
| %1st pts | 73% | 90% |
| 2nd pts | 19/34 | 18/25 |
| %2nd pts | 56% | 72% |
Mertens blasted 4 aces . Rybakina struck 8 aces . Mertens won 73% points on her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Rybakina won 90% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 72% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Mertens | Rybakina |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 3 | 3 |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/8 |
| % Converted | 50% | 38% |
| Conceded | 7 | 1 |
| Saved | 6 | 1 |
| % Saved | 86% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Mertens broke her opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Mertens conceded her serve once and she saved 86% of the break points that she conceded. Elena broke her opponent 3 times with a 38% conversion rate. The Kazakhstani was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 1 break points.
| Mertens | |||
| R1 Podoroska |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 72-59 | 72-59 | |
| Total points | 131 | 131 | |
| Winners | 27 | 27 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 37/71 | 37/71 | |
| % 1st in | 52% | 52% | |
| 1st pts | 27/37 | 27/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 19/34 | 19/34 | |
| % 2nd pts | 56% | 56% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 86% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Rybakina | |||
| R1 Stosur |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | |
| pts | 64-41 | 64-41 | |
| Total points | 105 | 105 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 30% | 30% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 21/46 | 21/46 | |
| % 1st in | 46% | 46% | |
| 1st pts | 19/21 | 19/21 | |
| % 1st pts | 90% | 90% | |
| 2nd pts | 18/25 | 18/25 | |
| % 2nd pts | 72% | 72% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/8 | 3/8 | |
| Converted % | 38% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
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