Elise Mertens and Anna Kalinskaya will face off in the 2nd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 4:00 pm on COURT 3. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elise Mertens who should win in 3 sets.
Elise Mertens -> 1.82
Anna Kalinskaya -> 1.99
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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Anna Kalinskaya
This will be the 2nd time that Elise Mertens and Anna Kalinskaya face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kalinskaya (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Kalinskaya won 6-4 0-6 7-5 in the 2nd round in Guadalajara back in 2022.
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. 26, Mertens will start her run in Rome after she played her last match in Madrid where she lost 6-4 0-6 6-4 to Sherif in the 4th round on the 1st of May.
Mertens has an overall 15-10 win-loss record in 2023, 2-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
The Belgian’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Monterrey.
Talking about her overall career, Mertens has an overall 404-223 record. She has a positive 95-54 record on clay.
Previously in Rome
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2020. See her history.
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. 57, Kalinskaya reached the 2nd round after defeating Dayana Yastremska 6-4 6-2.
In the 1st round, Kalinskaya had a good straight sets win against Yastremska (6-4 6-2). During the match Kalinskaya scored 61 points vs Yastremska’s 46. The Russian was pretty aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Kalinskaya scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 4 double faults. Anna Kalinskaya lost the serve 3 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Kalinskaya put 57% of her first serves in, winning 70% (23/33) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (11/25) on the 2nd serve. Anna broke Yastremska 6 times after converting 75% of her break points (6/8).
The Russian has a compiled 14-11 win-loss record in 2023, 6-2 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Rome
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Sloane StephensStephens (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cori GauffGauff – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Nuria Parrizas-DiazParrizas-Diaz (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Jessica PegulaPegula (6-2 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anna BondarBondar – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (7-65 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Caty McNallyMcNally (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Madison KeysKeys – Magdalena FrechFrech (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Magda LinetteLinette – Linda NoskovaNoskova (7-64 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Xiyu WangWang – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Riccardo BalzeraniBalzerani – Andres Gabriel CiurlettiGabriel Ciurletti (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Wilson LeiteLeite (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Federico MaccariMaccari – Marco BortolottiBortolotti (7-62 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Adelchi VirgiliVirgili – Omar GiacaloneGiacalone (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tobias SimonSimon – Luca GiacominiGiacomini (6-4 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Tomislav BrkicBrkic – Paul WoernerWoerner (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jacopo StefaniniStefanini – Kirill KivattsevKivattsev (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Qinwen ZhengQinwen – Alize CornetAlize (6-3 7-6(2)) – See score progression
- Maria Camila Osorio SerranoMaria – Petra MarticPetra (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
- Sofia KeninSofia – Aryna SabalenkaAryna (7-6(4) 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko – Bernarda PeraPera (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Donna VekicVekic – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Claire LiuLiu – Marta KostyukKostyuk (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Martina TrevisanTrevisan – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Danka KovinicKovinic (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Julia GrabherGrabher (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Lisa PigatoPigato – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Ana BogdanBogdan (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Cori GauffGauff – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Anna BondarBondar – Qinwen ZhengZheng (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Xiyu WangWang – Taylor TownsendTownsend (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Magda LinetteLinette – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Madison KeysKeys (4-1) – H2H and prediction
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Sofia KeninKenin (2-4) – H2H and prediction