Elise Mertens and Asia Muhammad will square off in the 1st round of the Guadalajara Open Akron for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:00 pm on Grandstand Caliente. 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 Elise Mertens who should win in 2 sets.
Elise Mertens -> 1.20
Asia Muhammad -> 4.50
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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Asia Muhammad
This will be the 3rd time that Elise Mertens and Asia Muhammad square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Mertens (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Mertens won 6-4 7-5 in the qualifications in Mallorca back in 2016.
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. 34, Elise will start her run in Guadalajara after she won the title in Monastir after beating 6-2 6-0 Cornet in the final.
The Belgian has a compiled 26-20 win-loss record in 2022, 16-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current year was winning the title in Monastir where she overcame Alize Cornet in the final 6-2 6-0.
The Belgian won her last 5 matches.
Talking about her overall career, The Belgian has an overall 386-210 record. She has a positive 218-103 record on hard.
Previously in Guadalajara
The Belgian has never competed in this tournament before.
Asia Muhammad
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 16-14 | 10-5 | 6-8 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 26-17 | 22-9 | 4-4 | 0-1 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 10-15 | 4-7 | 3-4 | 0-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 12-8 | 11-7 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 29-22 | 28-14 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 185, Asia reached the 1st round after defeating Elizabeth Mandlik 7-5 6-2 and Laura Pigossi 6-2 6-4.
In the qualifications, The American had a good straight sets win against Pigossi (6-2 6-4). During the match Muhammad scored 69 points vs Pigossi’s 50. Asia was exceptionally aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Muhammad blasted 3 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Asia Muhammad was extremely effective on serve to win 77% (23/30) of her 1st serve and 53% (18/34) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Muhammad broke Pigossi 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Asia started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this event to conquer 56% of the points she played.
Asia has an aggregate 26-15 win-loss record in 2022, 22-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Guadalajara
- Cheong-Eui KimKim – Dong-Kyu LeeLee (1-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yunseong ChungChung – Ji Hoon SonHoon Son (7-64 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Shuai ZhangZhang (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Fernanda Contreras GomezContreras Gomez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Magda LinetteLinette – Madison KeysKeys (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shelby RogersRogers – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Bernarda PeraPera – Petra KvitovaKvitova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Sloane StephensStephens – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ann LiLi – Rebecca MarinoMarino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Donna VekicVekic – Laura PigossiPigossi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Eugenie BouchardBouchard – Kayla DayDay (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lauren DavisDavis – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Caroline DolehideDolehide (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Magdalena FrechFrech – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lin ZhuZhu – Alize CornetCornet (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Asia MuhammadMuhammad – Elise MertensMertens (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Tereza MartincovaMartincova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Kaia KanepiKanepi (2-0) – H2H and prediction