Angelique Kerber and Elise Mertens will square off in the 3^rd round of Wimbledon for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 3:00 pm on Court 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Angelique Kerber who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Angelique Kerber is the pick to win this match.
Angelique Kerber -> 1.36
Elise Mertens -> 3.38

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Prediction and head to head Angelique Kerber vs. Elise Mertens

This will be the 2^nd time that Angelique Kerber and Elise Mertens square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Mertens (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.

The last time that they competed against each other, Mertens won 6-4 2-6 6-1 in the semifinal in Doha back in 2019.

Angelique Kerber

Angelique Kerber

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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	10-15	4-7	6-4	0-1	0-3	0-0
2023	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0-0
2022	13-11	2-4	7-5	0-0	4-2	0-0
2021	30-16	14-8	4-4	1-2	11-2	0-0
2020	7-6	7-4	0-2	0-0	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 19, Angelique reached the 3^rd round after beating Kristina Mladenovic 6-0 7-5 and Magda Linette 6-3 6-3.

In the 2^nd round, Kerber had a good straight sets win against Linette (6-3 6-3). During the match, Kerber scored 78 points vs Linette’s 62. The German was quite aggressive to blast 30 winners.

Talking about the service games, Kerber scored just 1 ace during the encounter and she committed only 2 double faults. Angelique Kerber lost the serve once and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Kerber put 73% of her first serves in, winning 63% (30/48) of the points behind her 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the 2nd serve. Kerber broke Linette 4 times after converting 31% of her break points (4/13).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Kerber hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 57% of the points she played.

Kerber has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 67% of her matches (361-181). 4-1 on grass in 2022. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Kerber has an overall 62-17 win-loss record in the last years on grass.

Her best result of the year was winning the title in in Strasbourg where she beat Kaja Juvan in the final 7-6(5) 6-7(0) 7-6(5).

Kerber has an aggregate 13-10 win-loss record in 2022, 4-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Wimbledon

Wimbledon

Kerber's Record

Elise Mertens

Elise Mertens

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Rank
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Year	Total	Hard	Clay	I.hard	Grass	Carpet
2024	27-25	17-15	6-5	1-1	3-4	0-0
2023	30-22	24-16	5-4	0-0	1-2	0-0
2022	29-23	19-14	4-3	2-2	4-4	0-0
2021	33-20	20-10	9-5	2-2	2-3	0-0
2020	34-13	17-7	9-4	8-2	0-0	0-0

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Ranked no. 31, Mertens reached the 3^rd round after defeating Maria Camila Osorio Serrano 1-6 6-2 4-2 ret. and Panna Udvardy 3-6 7-6⁵ 7-5.

In the 2^nd round against Udvardy, Mertens recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (3-6 7-6⁵ 7-5). During the match Mertens scored 133 points vs Udvardy’s 132. Elise was exceptionally aggressive to blast 44 winners.

Talking about serving, Mertens blasted 3 aces and she was not very consistent on her 2nd serve to score 10 double faults. Elise Mertens lost the serve 5 times and she saved 11 break points. Furthermore, Mertens put 56% of her first serves in, winning 64% (44/69) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (27/54) on the 2nd serve. Elise broke Udvardy 5 times after converting 25% of her break points (5/20).

Elise has a compiled 16-13 win-loss record in 2022, 3-3 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Wimbledon

Previously, her best result was reaching the 4^th round in 2019. See her history.

Wimbledon

Mertens's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Both Kerber and Mertens played 2 matches. At the moment, Elise Mertens lost 2 sets while Angelique Kerber hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Kerber has played 3 set(s) less than Mertens (4 vs 7). Therefore, Kerber played 19 games less than Mertens. Kerber scored 53 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, Elise fired 65 winners (32%).

Serve Performance

Kerber struck 2 aces (1 per match). Mertens struck 3 aces (1.5 per match). Kerber won 65% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 61% of the points. On the other side, Mertens won 63% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 50% of the points.

How they played the important points

The German broke her opponents 9 times with a 39% conversion rate. The German surrendered her serve twice and she saved 78% of the break points that she conceded. Elise broke her opponents 10 times with a 33% conversion rate. Elise conceded her serve 9 times and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded.

Head 2 Head

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Angelique
Kerber

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Elise
Mertens

Rank

205

High

1

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Rank

34

High

12

Win Loss

Kerber

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Mertens

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2024 2023 2022

10 - 15

27 - 25

4-7

Hard

17-15

0-1

I Hard

1-1

6-4

Clay

6-5

0-3

Grass

3-4

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Kerber

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Mertens