Elise Mertens and Claire Liu will square off in the 2nd round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 7:00 pm on Centre Court. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
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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 -> 1.42
Claire Liu -> 2.875
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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Claire Liu
There is no head to head record between Elise Mertens and Claire Liu since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Elise Mertens
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-20 | 17-13 | 6-5 | 5-0 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-25 | 18-15 | 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 |
Ranked no. 44, Mertens got to the 2nd round after beating Qiang Wang 6-0 6-3.
In the 1st round, Elise had a good straight sets win against Wang (6-0 6-3). During the match, Mertens scored 57 points vs Wang’s 37. The Belgian was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Regarding the service games, Mertens fired 2 aces and she committed only 7 double faults. Elise Mertens conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 1 break points. Furthermore, Mertens put 51% of her first serves in, winning 92% (22/24) of the points behind her 1st serve and 48% (11/23) on the 2nd serve. Elise broke Wang 4 times after converting 80% of her break points (4/5).
Mertens has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 65% of her matches (378-208). 11-11 on hard in 2022. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this event, Mertens has a composed 210-101 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Elise has an aggregate 21-19 win-loss record in 2022, 11-11 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tokyo
Elise has never competed in this tournament before.
Claire Liu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24-19 | 20-13 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 18-12 | 11-7 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-29 | 19-19 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-22 | 15-14 | 12-4 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-17 | 17-11 | 17-4 | 0-0 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 84, Liu got to the 2nd round after beating Alison Riske 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Riske (6-2 6-3). During the match Liu scored 64 points vs Riske’s 43. The American was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Liu managed to score 6 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Claire Liu lost the serve twice. Furthermore, Liu put 65% of her first serves in, winning 73% (24/33) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (9/18) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Riske 5 times after converting 45% of her break points (5/11).
Her best result of the current year was winning the title in the Paris where she overcame Beatriz Haddad Maia in the final 6-3 6-4.
Liu has a composed 25-19 win-loss record in 2022, 11-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Tokyo
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Mertens | Liu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 17 |
| Pts | 57-37 | 64-43 |
| Total Points | 94 | 107 |
| Winners | 22 | 24 |
| %Winners | 39% | 38% |
Both Mertens and Liu played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Mertens and Liu have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Mertens played 2 games less than Liu. The Belgian scored 22 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, Claire struck 24 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Mertens | Liu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 6 |
| 1st in | 24/47 | 33/51 |
| %1st in | 51% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 22/24 | 24/33 |
| %1st pts | 92% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 11/23 | 9/18 |
| %2nd pts | 48% | 50% |
Mertens recorded 2 aces . Liu made 6 aces . Mertens won 92% points on her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 48% of the points. On the other side, Liu won 73% 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
| Breaks | Mertens | Liu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 5 |
| Converted | 4/5 | 5/11 |
| % Converted | 80% | 45% |
| Conceded | 1 | 2 |
| Saved | 1 | 0 |
| % Saved | 100% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 2 |
The Belgian broke her opponent 4 times with a 80% conversion rate. Mertens pretty solid on her serve as she has never dropped a single service game after saving 1 break points. The American broke her opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Liu conceded her serve twice and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded.
| Mertens | |||
| R1 Wang |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 57-37 | 57-37 | |
| Total points | 94 | 94 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 39% | 39% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 7 | 7 | |
| 1st in | 24/47 | 24/47 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 22/24 | 22/24 | |
| % 1st pts | 92% | 92% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/23 | 11/23 | |
| % 2nd pts | 48% | 48% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 4/5 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 80% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Liu | |||
| R1 Riske |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 64-43 | 64-43 | |
| Total points | 107 | 107 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 6 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | |
| 1st in | 33/51 | 33/51 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 24/33 | 24/33 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/18 | 9/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 2 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
Head 2 Head
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