Elise Mertens and Anna Kalinskaya will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Guadalajara Open Akron for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on Grandstand Caliente. 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 Elise Mertens who should win in 3 sets.
Elise Mertens -> 1.57
Anna Kalinskaya -> 2.37
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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Anna Kalinskaya
There is no head to head record between Elise Mertens and Anna Kalinskaya 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. 34, Mertens reached the 2nd round after beating Asia Muhammad 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Mertens had a good straight sets win against Muhammad (6-3 6-2). During the match, Mertens scored 70 points vs Muhammad’s 50. Elise was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Mertens made 4 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Elise Mertens was pretty efficient on serve to win 76% (22/29) of her 1st serve and 57% (16/28) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. The Belgian broke Muhammad 4 times after converting 50% of her break points (4/8).
Mertens has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 65% of her matches (384-209). 17-12 on hard in 2022. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Mertens has an overall 216-102 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Her best result of the current season was winning the title in Monastir where she overcame Alize Cornet in the final 6-2 6-0.
The Belgian has an aggregate 27-20 win-loss record in 2022, 17-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Guadalajara
Elise has never competed in this tournament before.
Anna Kalinskaya
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25-21 | 16-14 | 5-4 | 3-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-19 | 28-12 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-18 | 16-15 | 7-3 | 5-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 27-20 | 22-10 | 2-6 | 1-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-23 | 19-12 | 3-7 | 5-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 73, Kalinskaya got to the 2nd round after defeating Barbora Krejcikova 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Krejcikova (6-3 6-4). During the match Kalinskaya scored 81 points vs Krejcikova’s 68. Anna was extremely aggressive to blast 29 winners.
About the serving games, Kalinskaya struck 2 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Anna Kalinskaya lost the serve once and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Kalinskaya put 61% of her first serves in, winning 73% (29/40) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (13/26) on the 2nd serve. Kalinskaya broke Krejcikova 3 times after converting 23% of her break points (3/13).
The Russian’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Guadalajara.
Kalinskaya has an overall 25-19 win-loss record in 2022, 20-9 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Guadalajara
Anna has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Mertens | Kalinskaya |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 17 | 19 |
| Pts | 70-50 | 81-68 |
| Total Points | 120 | 149 |
| Winners | 22 | 29 |
| %Winners | 31% | 36% |
Both Mertens and Kalinskaya played 1 match. Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Mertens and Kalinskaya have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Mertens played 2 games less than Kalinskaya. The Belgian scored 22 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, Anna blasted 29 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Mertens | Kalinskaya |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 2 |
| Avg per match | 4 | 2 |
| 1st in | 29/57 | 40/66 |
| %1st in | 51% | 61% |
| 1st pts | 22/29 | 29/40 |
| %1st pts | 76% | 73% |
| 2nd pts | 16/28 | 13/26 |
| %2nd pts | 57% | 50% |
Mertens fired 4 aces . Kalinskaya struck 2 aces . Mertens won 76% points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 57% of the points. On the other side, Kalinskaya won 73% of the points on 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 | Kalinskaya |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 4 | 3 |
| Converted | 4/8 | 3/13 |
| % Converted | 50% | 23% |
| Conceded | 3 | 4 |
| Saved | 2 | 3 |
| % Saved | 67% | 75% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 |
Elise broke her opponent 4 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Belgian conceded her serve once and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded. The Russian broke her opponent 3 times with a 23% conversion rate. The Russian conceded her serve once and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded.
| Mertens | |||
| R1 Muhammad | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 70-50 | 70-50 | |
| Total points | 120 | 120 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 4 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 29/57 | 29/57 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 22/29 | 22/29 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 76% | |
| 2nd pts | 16/28 | 16/28 | |
| % 2nd pts | 57% | 57% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/8 | 4/8 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Kalinskaya | |||
| R1 Krejcikova | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 81-68 | 81-68 | |
| Total points | 149 | 149 | |
| Winners | 29 | 29 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 40/66 | 40/66 | |
| % 1st in | 61% | 61% | |
| 1st pts | 29/40 | 29/40 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 73% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/26 | 13/26 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/13 | 3/13 | |
| Converted % | 23% | 23% | |
| Conceded | 4 | 4 | |
| Saved | 3/4 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 75% | 75% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Tennis Scores in Guadalajara
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Petra KvitovaKvitova (3-6 6-2 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Marta KostyukKostyuk (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Lin ZhuZhu (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel YooYoo – Yunseong ChungChung (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cheong-Eui KimKim – Ku Keon KangKeon Kang (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Madison KeysKeys (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Elena RybakinaRybakina (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – Sloane StephensStephens (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Rebecca MarinoMarino – Caroline GarciaGarcia (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Donna VekicVekic (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Eugenie BouchardBouchard – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Magdalena FrechFrech (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – H2H and prediction