Emma Navarro and Elise Mertens will square off in the 2nd round of the Qatar TotalEnergies Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 3:00 pm on Grandstand 2. 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 Emma Navarro who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Emma Navarro is the pick to win this match.
Emma Navarro -> 1.89
Elise Mertens -> 1.92
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Prediction and head to head Emma Navarro vs. Elise Mertens
This will be the 2nd time that Emma Navarro and Elise Mertens face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Navarro (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Navarro won 6-1 4-6 7-5 in the final in Hobart back in January 2024.
Highlights Emma Navarro vs Elise Mertens – Hobart 13-January-2024
Emma Navarro
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 30-11 | 21-7 | 9-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 64-24 | 17-9 | 37-11 | 3-1 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-18 | 8-8 | 23-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-13 | 6-6 | 13-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 2-7 | 0-4 | 2-2 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 23 (career-high), Navarro got to the 2nd round after beating Jasmine Paolini 6-3 7-5.
In the 1st round, Emma had a good straight sets win against Paolini (6-3 7-5). During the match, Navarro scored 69 points vs Paolini’s 56. Emma was quite aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Navarro scored just 1 ace for the entire match and she was pretty consistent in conceding no double faults. Emma Navarro lost the serve 4 times and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Navarro put 67% of her first serves in, winning 59% (22/37) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (9/18) on the 2nd serve. Navarro broke Paolini 7 times after converting 54% of her break points (7/13).
Navarro has a solid match record in the last 8 years having won 64% of her matches (160-89). 11-2 on hard in 2024. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Navarro has an aggregate49-38 match record in the last 8 years on hard.
Her best result of the season was winning the title in Hobart where she defeated Elise Mertens in the final 6-1 4-6 7-5.
The American has an aggregate 11-2 win-loss record in 2024, 11-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
Emma has never competed in this tournament before.
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. 25, the Belgian reached the 2nd round after beating Peyton Stearns 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, Mertens had a good straight sets win against Stearns (6-2 6-3). During the match Mertens scored 67 points vs Stearns’s 42. The Belgian was very aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about serving, Mertens scored 7 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Elise Mertens was very efficient on serve to win 86% (19/22) of her 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Elise broke Stearns 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).
Mertens’s best result of the year was getting to the final in Hobart.
Mertens has an overall 8-4 win-loss record in 2024, 7-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
Previously, she won this tournament once in 2019. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Navarro | Mertens |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 21 | 17 |
| Pts | 69-56 | 67-42 |
| Total Points | 125 | 109 |
| Winners | 22 | 19 |
| %Winners | 32% | 28% |
Both Navarro and Mertens played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Navarro and Mertens have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Navarro played 4 games more than Mertens. The American scored 22 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, The Belgian made 19 winners (28%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Navarro | Mertens |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 7 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 7 |
| 1st in | 37/55 | 22/43 |
| %1st in | 67% | 51% |
| 1st pts | 22/37 | 19/22 |
| %1st pts | 59% | 86% |
| 2nd pts | 9/18 | 13/21 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 62% |
Navarro made 1 ace . Mertens also recorded 7 aces . Navarro won 59% points on her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Mertens won 86% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 62% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Navarro | Mertens |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 7 | 5 |
| Converted | 7/13 | 5/9 |
| % Converted | 54% | 56% |
| Conceded | 5 | 3 |
| Saved | 1 | 2 |
| % Saved | 20% | 67% |
| Times Broken | 4 | 1 |
Emma broke her opponent 7 times with a 54% conversion rate. Navarro conceded her serve 4 times and she saved 20% of the break points that she conceded. Mertens broke her opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Elise conceded her serve once and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded.
| Navarro | |||
| R1 Paolini |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 21 | |
| pts | 69-56 | 69-56 | |
| Total points | 125 | 125 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 32% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 0 | |
| 1st in | 37/55 | 37/55 | |
| % 1st in | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 22/37 | 22/37 | |
| % 1st pts | 59% | 59% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/18 | 9/18 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 7 | 7 | |
| Converted | 7/13 | 7/13 | |
| Converted % | 54% | 54% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 1/5 | 1 | |
| Saved % | 20% | 20% | |
| Times Broken | 4 | 4 | |
| Mertens | |||
| R1 Stearns |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 17 | |
| pts | 67-42 | 67-42 | |
| Total points | 109 | 109 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 28% | 28% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 7 | 7 | |
| Double Faults | 5 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 22/43 | 22/43 | |
| % 1st in | 51% | 51% | |
| 1st pts | 19/22 | 19/22 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 13/21 | 13/21 | |
| % 2nd pts | 62% | 62% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 5/9 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 56% | |
| Conceded | 3 | 3 | |
| Saved | 2/3 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 67% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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