Elise Mertens and Daria Saville will play each other in the 1st round of the Hong Kong Tennis Open for the 6th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 5:00 pm on Court 1. 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 -> 1.47
Daria Saville -> 2.68
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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Daria Saville
This will be the 6th time that Elise Mertens and Daria Saville face off. The head to head is 3-2 for Mertens (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Gavrilova won 6-3 4-6 6-3 in the 3rd round in Indian Wells 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. 41, Elise will start her run in Hong Kong after she played her last match in Beijing where she lost 3-6 6-1 6-4 to Yuan in the 1st round on the 30th of September.
Mertens has an overall 23-21 win-loss record in 2023, 17-15 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Mertens’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in Monterrey.
Talking about her overall career, Elise has an overall 412-234 record. She has a positive 238-120 record on hard.
Previously in Hong Kong
Elise has never competed in this tournament before.
Daria Saville
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13-17 | 9-11 | 4-4 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 29-22 | 16-9 | 8-8 | 1-1 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 12-13 | 6-8 | 5-2 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 25-20 | 20-12 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 3-2 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 211, the Australian got to the 1st round after defeating Chia Yi Tsao 6-2 6-2 and Dalila Jakupovic 4-6 7-5 6-3.
In the qualifications against Jakupovic, Gavrilova recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 7-5 6-3). During the match Gavrilova scored 98 points vs Jakupovic’s 88. Gavrilova was quite aggressive to blast 42 winners.
Talking about serving, Gavrilova blasted 3 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Daria Saville was extremely effective on serve to win 74% (42/57) of her 1st serve and 53% (16/30) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve 3 times. The Australian broke Jakupovic 4 times after converting 31% of her break points (4/13).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Daria started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points she played.
The Australian’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Hamburg.
Daria has an overall 12-10 win-loss record in 2023, 6-6 on hard (See FULL STATS)
.Tennis Scores in Hong Kong
- Anna BlinkovaBlinkova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-4 2-6 5-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Linda FruhvirtovaFruhvirtova – Peyton StearnsStearns (3-6 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Martina TrevisanTrevisan – Cristina BucsaBucsa (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (2-6 6-3 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Xiyu WangWang (6-4 7-67) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Xinyu WangWang – Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan (6-2 4-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Priscilla HonHon – Eudice Wong ChongWong Chong (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Jana FettFett (6-0 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ho Ching WuChing Wu – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anna DanilinaDanilina – Magdalena FrechFrech (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sofya LansereLansere – Hong Yi Cody WongYi Cody Wong (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Daria GavrilovaGavrilova – Elise MertensMertens (2-3) – H2H and prediction
- Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Priscilla HonHon – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kamilla RakhimovaRakhimova – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (1-1) – H2H and prediction