Elise Mertens and Lucia Bronzetti will square off in the 2nd round of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 3:00 pm on Center Court. 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 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Elise Mertens is the pick to win this match.
Elise Mertens -> 1.25
Lucia Bronzetti -> 3.96
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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Lucia Bronzetti
There is no head to head record between Elise Mertens and Lucia Bronzetti since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Elise Mertens
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14-12 | 9-7 | 4-4 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 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. 26, Mertens will start her run in Linz after she played her last match at the Melbourne where she lost 5-7 6-1 7-6(6) to Kostyuk in the 2nd round on the 17th of January.
Elise has a compiled 6-3 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on indoor hard courts.
Mertens’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Hobart.
Talking about her overall career, Mertens has an overall 425-238 record. She has a positive 42-28 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Linz
Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2020. See her history.
Lucia Bronzetti
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8-15 | 6-11 | 1-3 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-30 | 15-17 | 10-9 | 4-2 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 36-26 | 18-10 | 13-10 | 3-3 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 53-23 | 14-4 | 38-14 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 11-11 | 0-2 | 5-4 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 58, Bronzetti got to the 2nd round after beating Angelique Kerber 6-1 6-3.
In the 1st round, The Italian had a good straight sets win against Kerber (6-1 6-3). During the match Bronzetti scored 60 points vs Kerber’s 37. Bronzetti was exceptionally aggressive to blast 20 winners.
About the serving games, Bronzetti managed to score 2 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Overall, Lucia Bronzetti was extremely effective on serve to win 83% (20/24) of her 1st serve and 64% (9/14) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. The Italian broke Kerber 5 times after converting 45% of her break points (5/11).
The Italian has a compiled 2-3 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Linz
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Katie BoulterBoulter (7-62 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jodie Anna BurrageAnna Burrage – Jaqueline CristianCristian (6-3 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Jule NiemeierNiemeier (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist – Renta TokudaTokuda (1-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Benjamin SigouinSigouin (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Go SoedaSoeda – Jacob GrillsGrills (2-6 6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Peter PolanskyPolansky – Pavel KrainikKrainik (6-2 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Laurynas GrigelisGrigelis (7-65 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Zhe LiLi – Darian KingKing (2-6 6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bradley KlahnKlahn – Yunseong ChungChung (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo – Joao MenezesMenezes (6-2 3-6 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Clara TausonTauson (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Clara BurelBurel (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Donna VekicVekic (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (1-1) – H2H and prediction
