Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove and Seone Mendez will square off in the 1st round of the Melbourne Summer Set 1 for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:00 pm 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 Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove is the pick to win this match.
Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove -> 1.26
Seone Mendez -> 4.05
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Prediction and head to head Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove vs. Seone Mendez
This will be the 2nd time that Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove and Seone Mendez clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kerkhove (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Kerkhove won 6-3 6-1 in the qualifications in Napoca back in 2021.
Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9-21 | 3-7 | 4-10 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 2-2 |
| 2023 | 44-34 | 16-11 | 3-4 | 23-16 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 34-32 | 22-14 | 0-2 | 9-11 | 3-5 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-29 | 17-16 | 1-5 | 4-5 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-16 | 4-6 | 2-3 | 3-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 158, the Dutch got to the 1st round after defeating Dayana Yastremska 6-2 6-2 and Kimberly Birrell 6-4 6-4.
In the qualifications, Kerkhove had a good straight sets win against Birrell (6-4 6-4). During the match, Kerkhove scored 88 points vs Birrell’s 78. The Dutch was exceptionally aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Regarding the service games, Kerkhove recorded 3 aces and she was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults. Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove lost the serve 3 times and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Kerkhove put 54% of her first serves in, winning 63% (24/38) of the points behind her 1st serve and 48% (16/33) on the 2nd serve. Lesley broke Birrell 5 times after converting 25% of her break points (5/20).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Lesley started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 55% of the points she played.
Kerkhove has a positive record in the last 10 years having won 57% of her matches (314-233). 2-0 on hard in 2022. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this event, Kerkhove has a compiled 125-71 match record in the last years on hard.
Lesley has an overall 2-0 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Melbourne
Kerkhove has never competed in this tournament before.
Seone Mendez
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12-13 | 0-2 | 12-11 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-23 | 5-5 | 36-18 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 12-19 | 5-9 | 7-8 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 31-22 | 1-3 | 27-14 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 4-8 | 1-2 | 2-5 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 239, Mendez will start her run in Melbourne after she played her last match in the W25 Selva Gardena where she lost 6-0 6-3 to Andreeva in the quarter on the 2nd of December.
This will be the first match of the season on hard.
In terms of her career, Seone has an overall 190-112 record. She has a negative 26-32 record on hard.
Head 2 Head
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- Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Lauren DavisDavis (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Franko SkugorSkugor – Tommy RobredoRobredo (3-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin – Roberto MarcoraMarcora (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
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