Elise Mertens and Leylah Annie Fernandez will play each other in the 2nd round of the Guadalajara Open Akron for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 4:00 pm on Grandstand Caliente. 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 Elise Mertens who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Elise Mertens is the pick to win this match.
Elise Mertens -> 1.86
Leylah Annie Fernandez -> 1.95
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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Leylah Annie Fernandez
This will be the 2nd time that Elise Mertens and Leylah Annie Fernandez play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Mertens (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they locked horns, Mertens won 6-1 6-3 in the 1st round in at the Australian Open back in 2021.
Highlights Elise Mertens vs Leylah Annie Fernandez – Australian Open 09-February-2021
Elise Mertens
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19-18 | 9-8 | 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. 29, Elise reached the 2nd round after defeating Yanina Wickmayer 7-64 6-2.
In the 1st round, Mertens had a good straight sets win against Wickmayer (7-64 6-2). During the match, Mertens scored 79 points vs Wickmayer’s 62. Mertens was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Regarding the service games, Mertens scored 8 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Elise Mertens was exceptionally effective on serve to win 71% (25/35) of her 1st serve and 52% (15/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve 3 times. Elise broke Wickmayer 5 times after converting 45% of her break points (5/11).
Mertens has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 63% of her matches (380-226). 17-13 on hard in 2023. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Mertens has a composed 211-114 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
The Belgian’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Monterrey.
Elise has an overall 23-19 win-loss record in 2023, 17-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Guadalajara
Leylah Annie Fernandez
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 20-16 | 7-7 | 6-6 | 0-0 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-24 | 28-16 | 5-6 | 6-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-15 | 12-10 | 6-4 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-17 | 19-10 | 3-5 | 2-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 20-10 | 17-7 | 2-2 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 74, the Canadian reached the 2nd round after beating Asia Muhammad 6-1 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Canadian had a good straight sets win against Muhammad (6-1 6-3). During the match Annie scored 55 points vs Muhammad’s 36. Leylah was quite aggressive to blast 26 winners.
About the serving games, Annie bagged 3 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Leylah Annie Fernandez conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 67% of her first serves in, win 93% (26/28) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (7/14) on the 2nd serve. The Canadian broke Muhammad 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).
The Canadian’s best result of the current season was reaching the semifinal in the W100 Madrid.
Leylah has an overall 27-21 win-loss record in 2023, 18-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Guadalajara
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Mertens | Annie |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 16 |
| Pts | 79-62 | 55-36 |
| Total Points | 141 | 91 |
| Winners | 25 | 26 |
| %Winners | 32% | 47% |
Both Mertens and Annie played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Mertens and Annie have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Mertens played 5 games more than Annie. Mertens scored 25 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Leylah managed to score 26 winners (47%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Mertens | Annie |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 8 | 3 |
| Avg per match | 8 | 3 |
| 1st in | 35/64 | 28/42 |
| %1st in | 55% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 25/35 | 26/28 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 93% |
| 2nd pts | 15/29 | 7/14 |
| %2nd pts | 52% | 50% |
Mertens struck 8 aces . Annie managed to score 3 aces . Mertens won 71% points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 52% of the points. On the other side, Annie won 93% of the points behind 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 | Annie |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 4 |
| Converted | 5/11 | 4/7 |
| % Converted | 45% | 57% |
| Conceded | 3 | 0 |
| Saved | 0 | 0 |
| % Saved | 0% | 0% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 0 |
Elise broke her opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Mertens conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 0% of the break points that she conceded. Leylah broke her opponent 4 times with a 57% conversion rate. The Canadian was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.
| Mertens | |||
| R1 Wickmayer |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 7-64 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 79-62 | 79-62 | |
| Total points | 141 | 141 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 8 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 6 | 6 | |
| 1st in | 35/64 | 35/64 | |
| % 1st in | 55% | 55% | |
| 1st pts | 25/35 | 25/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 71% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/29 | 15/29 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 52% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/11 | 5/11 | |
| Converted % | 45% | 45% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 0/3 | 0 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
| Annie | |||
| R1 Muhammad |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 55-36 | 55-36 | |
| Total points | 91 | 91 | |
| Winners | 26 | 26 | |
| %Winners | 47% | 47% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 3 | 3 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 28/42 | 28/42 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 26/28 | 26/28 | |
| % 1st pts | 93% | 93% | |
| 2nd pts | 7/14 | 7/14 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 4 | 4 | |
| Converted | 4/7 | 4/7 | |
| Converted % | 57% | 57% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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