Elise Mertens and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova will face off in the quarter of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz for the 4th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 8:00 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 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is the pick to win this match.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova -> 1.727
Elise Mertens -> 2.12
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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
This will be the 4th time that Elise Mertens and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Pavlyuchenkova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they competed against each other, Pavlyuchenkova won 3-6 7-6(3) 6-3 in the 4th round in at the French Open back in 2023.
Highlights Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs Elise Mertens – French Open 04-June-2023
Elise Mertens
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-25 | 17-15 | 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 |
| 2020 | 34-13 | 17-7 | 9-4 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 26, Elise got to the quarter after beating Lucia Bronzetti 6-1 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Elise had a good straight sets win against Bronzetti (6-1 6-3). During the match, Mertens scored 60 points vs Bronzetti’s 38. Elise was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about the service games, Mertens fired 10 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Elise Mertens lost the serve once and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Mertens put 58% of her first serves in, winning 77% (24/31) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (11/22) on the 2nd serve. Mertens broke Bronzetti 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
Mertens has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 62% of her matches (342-207). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2024. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this event, Mertens has an overall 33-23 match record in the last years on indoor hard courts.
Mertens’s best result of the year was getting to the final in Hobart.
The Belgian has a composed 7-3 win-loss record in 2024, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Linz
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27-19 | 20-11 | 3-5 | 3-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-17 | 6-8 | 15-7 | 3-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 2-3 | 2-1 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 29-20 | 12-11 | 10-3 | 5-4 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 9-8 | 6-4 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 42, Pavlyuchenkova got to the quarter after defeating Martina Trevisan 6-4 6-0 and Katie Boulter 7-62 6-4.
In the 2nd round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Boulter (7-62 6-4). During the match Pavlyuchenkova scored 73 points vs Boulter’s 59. Pavlyuchenkova was extremely aggressive to blast 40 winners.
About the serving games, Pavlyuchenkova bagged 8 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova was extremely efficient on serve to win 82% (40/49) of her 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Pavlyuchenkova was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Boulter once.
Overall Performance in this tournament
Anastasia hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 60% of the points she played.
Anastasia has a compiled 7-3 win-loss record in 2024, 2-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Linz
Previously, she won this tournament once in 2015. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Mertens | Pavlyuchenkova |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 39 |
| Pts | 60-38 | 133-90 |
| Total Points | 98 | 223 |
| Winners | 24 | 59 |
| %Winners | 40% | 44% |
Mertens played 1 match while Pavlyuchenkova competed in 2 matches. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Mertens has played 2 set(s) less than Pavlyuchenkova (2 vs 4). Therefore, Mertens played 23 games less than Pavlyuchenkova. The Belgian scored 24 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Pavlyuchenkova fired 59 winners (44%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Mertens | Pavlyuchenkova |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 10 | 10 |
| Avg per match | 10 | 5 |
| 1st in | 31/53 | 72/110 |
| %1st in | 58% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 24/31 | 59/72 |
| %1st pts | 77% | 82% |
| 2nd pts | 11/22 | 27/38 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 71% |
Mertens made 10 aces . Pavlyuchenkova fired 10 aces (5 per match). Mertens won 77% points on her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Pavlyuchenkova won 82% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 71% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Mertens | Pavlyuchenkova |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/10 |
| % Converted | 71% | 50% |
| Conceded | 3 | 5 |
| Saved | 2 | 5 |
| % Saved | 67% | 100% |
| Times Broken | 1 | 0 |
Mertens broke her opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. The Belgian lost her serve once and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded. Pavlyuchenkova broke her opponents 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. The Russian was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 5 break points.
| Mertens | |||
| R2 Bronzetti |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 60-38 | 60-38 | |
| Total points | 98 | 98 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 40% | 40% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 10 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 31/53 | 31/53 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 58% | |
| 1st pts | 24/31 | 24/31 | |
| % 1st pts | 77% | 77% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/22 | 11/22 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
| Pavlyuchenkova | ||||
| R1 Trevisan |
R2 Boulter |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-0 | 7-62 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 23 | 39 | |
| pts | 60-31 | 73-59 | 133-90 | |
| Total points | 91 | 132 | 223 | |
| Winners | 19 | 40 | 59 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 55% | 44% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 8 | 10 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 23/40 | 49/70 | 72/110 | |
| % 1st in | 58% | 70% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 19/23 | 40/49 | 59/72 | |
| % 1st pts | 83% | 82% | 82% | |
| 2nd pts | 14/17 | 13/21 | 27/38 | |
| % 2nd pts | 82% | 62% | 71% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 1/1 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 100% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Saved | 3/3 | 2/2 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | 200% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Head 2 Head
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LWWLWWWLLW Tennis Scores in Linz
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- Elisabetta Cocciaretto/Martina TrevisanCocciaretto/Martina Trevisan – Eri Hozumi/Makoto NinomiyaHozumi/Makoto Ninomiya (4-6 6-1 11-9) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Peter PolanskyPolansky (6-74 7-63 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jason Murray KublerMurray Kubler – Ernesto EscobedoEscobedo (7-64 6-73 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bradley KlahnKlahn – Zhe LiLi (6-77 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Go SoedaSoeda – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (7-63 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Clara BurelBurel – Donna VekicVekic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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