Caroline Garcia and Elise Mertens will face off in the semifinal of the Abierto GNP Seguros for the 7th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 6:30 pm on Center Court. 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 Caroline Garcia who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Caroline Garcia is the pick to win this match.
Caroline Garcia -> 1.4
Elise Mertens -> 2.96
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Prediction and head to head Caroline Garcia vs. Elise Mertens
This will be the 7th time that Caroline Garcia and Elise Mertens face off. The head to head is 4-2 for Garcia (see full H2H stats),but they are 2-2 on hard.
The last time that they played, Garcia won 6-4 7-5 in the 3rd round in Cincinnati back in 2022.
Caroline Garcia
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 17-17 | 10-10 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 40-27 | 23-17 | 4-4 | 7-3 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 46-21 | 21-13 | 11-4 | 4-1 | 10-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-26 | 15-14 | 8-6 | 3-3 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-11 | 5-6 | 4-3 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 5, Caroline reached the semifinal after beating Kaja Juvan 6-3 6-4, Nuria Parrizas-Diaz 6-3 6-2 and Mayar Sherif 6-0 6-4.
In the quarter, The French player had a good straight sets win against Sherif (6-0 6-4). During the match, Garcia scored 57 points vs Sherif’s 35. Garcia was very aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about the service games, Garcia scored 3 aces and she committed only 1 double fault. Caroline Garcia was extremely effective on serve to win 86% (25/29) of her 1st serve and 62% (8/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The French player broke Sherif 4 times after converting 67% of her break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Garcia hasn’t dropped yet a set in this competition to conquer 60% of the points she played.
Garcia has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 60% of her matches (315-213). 10-4 on hard in 2023. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this competition, Garcia has an aggregate 160-123 match record in the last years on hard.
Garcia’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Lyon.
The French player has a composed 14-5 win-loss record in 2023, 10-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Monterrey
Elise Mertens
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 26-23 | 16-13 | 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 |
Ranked no. 42, the Belgian got to the semifinal after beating Diana Shnaider 6-0 6-4, Elena Gabriela Ruse 6-3 3-6 6-2 and Elisabetta Cocciaretto 6-2 6-2.
In the quarter, The Belgian had a good straight sets win against Cocciaretto (6-2 6-2). During the match Mertens scored 63 points vs Cocciaretto’s 43. Elise was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Mertens blasted 7 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Elise Mertens was extremely effective on serve to win 84% (26/31) of her 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Belgian broke Cocciaretto 4 times after converting 31% of her break points (4/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Belgian has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 58% of the points she played.
The Belgian has an overall 10-5 win-loss record in 2023, 10-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Garcia | Mertens |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 3 | 3 |
| Tot Set | 6 | 7 |
| Tot Games | 52 | 58 |
| Pts | 174-115 | 215-157 |
| Total Points | 289 | 372 |
| Winners | 78 | 82 |
| %Winners | 45% | 38% |
Both Garcia and Mertens played 3 matches. At the moment, Elise Mertens surrendered 1 set while Caroline Garcia hasn’t dropped a set so far. Garcia has played 1 set(s) less than Mertens (6 vs 7). Therefore, Garcia played 6 games less than Mertens. Garcia scored 78 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Elise scored 82 winners (38%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Garcia | Mertens |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 16 | 18 |
| Avg per match | 5.3 | 6 |
| 1st in | 92/140 | 106/197 |
| %1st in | 66% | 54% |
| 1st pts | 78/92 | 82/106 |
| %1st pts | 85% | 77% |
| 2nd pts | 30/48 | 46/91 |
| %2nd pts | 63% | 51% |
Garcia scored 16 aces (5.3 per match). Mertens struck 18 aces (6 per match). Garcia won 85% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 63% of the points. On the other side, Mertens won 77% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 51% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Garcia | Mertens |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 10 | 14 |
| Converted | 10/18 | 14/32 |
| % Converted | 56% | 44% |
| Conceded | 2 | 19 |
| Saved | 1 | 15 |
| % Saved | 50% | 79% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 4 |
Caroline broke her opponents 10 times with a 56% conversion rate. Garcia lost her serve once and she saved 50% of the break points that she conceded. Mertens broke her opponents 14 times with a 44% conversion rate. Elise conceded her serve 4 times and she saved 79% of the break points that she conceded.
| Garcia | |||||
| R1 Juvan |
R2 Parrizas-Diaz |
1/4 Sherif |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | 6-3 6-2 | 6-0 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 17 | 16 | 52 | |
| pts | 64-51 | 53-29 | 57-35 | 174-115 | |
| Total points | 115 | 82 | 92 | 289 | |
| Winners | 30 | 23 | 25 | 78 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 43% | 44% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 5 | 8 | 3 | 16 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 34/54 | 29/44 | 29/42 | 92/140 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 66% | 69% | 66% | |
| 1st pts | 30/34 | 23/29 | 25/29 | 78/92 | |
| % 1st pts | 88% | 79% | 86% | 85% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/20 | 10/15 | 8/13 | 30/48 | |
| % 2nd pts | 60% | 67% | 62% | 63% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | |
| Converted | 2/8 | 4/4 | 4/6 | 10/18 | |
| Converted % | 25% | 100% | 67% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 0/1 | 0/0 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 0% | – | 33% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Mertens | |||||
| R1 Shnaider |
R2 Gabriela Ruse |
1/4 Cocciaretto |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-4 | 6-3 3-6 6-2 | 6-2 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 26 | 16 | 58 | |
| pts | 60-36 | 92-78 | 63-43 | 215-157 | |
| Total points | 96 | 170 | 106 | 372 | |
| Winners | 20 | 36 | 26 | 82 | |
| %Winners | 33% | 39% | 41% | 38% | |
| SERVE | |||||
| Aces | 7 | 4 | 7 | 18 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 5 | 2 | 13 | |
| 1st in | 22/44 | 53/95 | 31/58 | 106/197 | |
| % 1st in | 50% | 56% | 53% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 20/22 | 36/53 | 26/31 | 82/106 | |
| % 1st pts | 91% | 68% | 84% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/22 | 19/42 | 14/27 | 46/91 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 45% | 52% | 51% | |
| Breaks | |||||
| Won | 4 | 6 | 4 | 14 | |
| Converted | 4/5 | 6/14 | 4/13 | 14/32 | |
| Converted % | 80% | 43% | 31% | 44% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 12 | 5 | 19 | |
| Saved | 2/2 | 8/12 | 5/5 | 15 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 67% | 100% | 89% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | |
Head 2 Head
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- Gibril DiarraDiarra – Robin StanekStanek (6-76 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jelle SelsSels – Nick ChappellChappell (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
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