Madison Keys and Elise Mertens will square off in the 1^st round of the Western & Southern Open for the 4^th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 8:30 pm on GRANDSTAND. 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 Madison Keys who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Madison Keys is the pick to win this match.
Madison Keys -> 1.58
Elise Mertens -> 2.38

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Prediction and head to head Madison Keys vs. Elise Mertens

This will be the 4^th time that Madison Keys and Elise Mertens clash against each other. The head to head is 3-0 for Keys (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Keys won 7-5 6-3 in the 3^rd round in at the Wimbledon back in 2021.

Madison Keys

Ranked no. 15, the American will start her run in Cincinnati after she played her last match in Montreal where she lost w/o to Paolini in the 2^nd round on the 9^th of August.

The American has an overall 28-10 win-loss record in 2023, 14-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Her best result of the current year was winning the title in Australia where she overcame Lucia Bronzetti in the final 6-3 6-2 and in Eastbourne where she beat Daria Kasatkina in the final 6-2 7-6(13).

Talking about her overall career, Keys has an overall 356-204 record. She has a positive 217-128 record on hard.

Previously in Cincinnati

Previously, she won this tournament once in 2019. See her history.

Elise Mertens

Ranked no. 29, Mertens will start her run in Cincinnati after she played her last match in Montreal where she lost 6-4 6-2 to Kasatkina in the 1^st round on the 8^th of August.

The Belgian has an aggregate 19-16 win-loss record in 2023, 13-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Elise’s best result of the current season was getting to the semifinal in Monterrey.

In terms of her career, The Belgian has an overall 408-229 record. She has a positive 234-115 record on hard.

Previously in Cincinnati

Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2020. See her history.

Tennis Scores in Cincinnati

• Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Marta KostyukKostyuk (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Celine NaefNaef (1-6 6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Venus WilliamsWilliams – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Lin ZhuZhu (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sloane StephensStephens – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Malek JaziriJaziri – Grigor DimitrovDimitrov (4-6 7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Borna CoricCoric – Richard GasquetGasquet (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Damir DzumhurDzumhur – Yannick MadenMaden (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Pierre-Hugues HerbertHerbert – Joao SousaSousa (4-6 6-4 7-6⁸) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lucas PouillePouille – Ernests GulbisGulbis (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Evgeny DonskoyDonskoy – Blaz KavcicKavcic (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Denis IstominIstomin (7-6¹ 7-6⁰) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Filip KrajinovicKrajinovic – Thomas Fabbiano
  Fabbiano (0-6 6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Andreas Haider-MaurerHaider-Maurer (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Yuichi SugitaSugita – Ilya IvashkaIvashka (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Damir Dzumhur/Filip KrajinovicDzumhur/Filip Krajinovic – Henri Kontinen/John PeersKontinen/John Peers (7-6⁴ 7-6²) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Marcos BaghdatisBaghdatis – Viktor TroickiTroicki (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Mikhail KukushkinKukushkin (6-2 6-7⁵ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Robin HaaseHaase – Quentin HalysHalys (7-5 2-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Benoit PairePaire – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (5-7 6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Roberto Bautista AgutBautista Agut – Florian MayerMayer (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Philipp KohlschreiberKohlschreiber – Gleb SakharovSakharov (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Qinwen ZhengZheng – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (4-5) – H2H and prediction
• Cristina BucsaBucsa – Belinda BencicBencic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Xiyu WangWang – Mayar SherifSherif (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Petra MarticMartic – Emma NavarroNavarro (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Madison KeysKeys – Elise MertensMertens (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Bernarda PeraPera – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Donna VekicVekic (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Peyton StearnsStearns (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (4-1) – H2H and prediction
• Magda LinetteLinette – Ann LiLi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Sloane StephensStephens – Caroline GarciaGarcia (2-4) – H2H and prediction
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (1-0) – H2H and prediction