Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens will face off in the 2nd round of the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 5:00 pm on Stadium Court. 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 Veronika Kudermetova who should win in 3 sets.
Veronika Kudermetova -> 1.66
Elise Mertens -> 2.22
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Prediction and head to head Veronika Kudermetova vs. Elise Mertens
This will be the 6th time that Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens face off. The head to head is 4-1 for Mertens (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Kudermetova won 4-6 6-2 6-3 in the 1st round in Rome back in 2021.
Highlights Veronika Kudermetova vs Elise Mertens – Rome 11-May-2021
Veronika Kudermetova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35-25 | 22-16 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 18-25 | 10-16 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-22 | 18-14 | 8-5 | 1-1 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-20 | 27-13 | 7-4 | 0-1 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-24 | 15-13 | 14-4 | 3-4 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 11, Veronika will start her run in Abu Dhabi after she played her last match at the Melbourne where she lost 6-4 2-6 6-2 to Volynets in the 2nd round on the 19th of January.
The Russian has a compiled 5-2 win-loss record in 2023, 5-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Russian’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in Adelaide.
Talking about her overall career, Kudermetova has an overall 306-200 record. She has a positive 150-97 record on hard.
Previously in Abu Dhabi
Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2021. See her history.
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. 32, Mertens reached the 2nd round after beating Martina Trevisan 6-0 6-2.
In the 1st round, Mertens had a good straight sets win against Trevisan (6-0 6-2). During the match Mertens scored 57 points vs Trevisan’s 27. The Belgian was quite aggressive to blast 20 winners.
About the serving games, Mertens recorded 3 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Elise Mertens was extremely efficient on serve to win 80% (20/25) of her 1st serve and 67% (10/15) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Elise broke Trevisan 5 times after converting 83% of her break points (5/6).
The Belgian has an overall 4-3 win-loss record in 2023, 4-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Abu Dhabi
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Claire LiuLiu (3-6 6-2 6-0) – See score progression
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Rebecca MarinoMarino (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Belinda Bencic/Elise MertensBencic/Elise Mertens – Alicja Rosolska/Erin RoutliffeRosolska/Erin Routliffe (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Shelby RogersRogers – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (6-4 6-75 6-1) – See score progression
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (4-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (7-5 1-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Shuai ZhangZhang (4-6 7-64 6-4) – See score progression
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (6-2 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Rebecca MarinoMarino (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Claire LiuLiu (3-6 6-2 6-0) – See score progression
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (4-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Shelby RogersRogers – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (6-4 6-7(5) 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Elise MertensMertens (1-4) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Shelby RogersRogers (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Belinda BencicBencic (0-1) – H2H and prediction