Elise Mertens and Xinyu Wang will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the BNP Paribas Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 1:30 pm on STADIUM 8. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elise Mertens who should win in 3 sets.
Elise Mertens -> 1.82
Xinyu Wang -> 1.99
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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Xinyu Wang
This will be the 2nd time that Elise Mertens and Xinyu Wang face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Wang (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Wang won 6-3 6-1 in the 1st round in Indian Wells back in 2023.
Highlights Xinyu Wang vs Elise Mertens – Indian Wells 08-March-2023
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. 28, Mertens will start her run in Indian Wells after she played her last match in Dubai where she lost 1-6 6-3 7-6(3) to Cocciaretto in the 1st round on the 18th of February.
Elise has an aggregate 8-6 win-loss record in 2024, 7-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Elise’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Hobart.
Talking about her overall career, Mertens has an overall 427-241 record. She has a positive 252-126 record on hard.
Previously in Indian Wells
Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2019 and 2022. See her history.
Xinyu Wang
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25-25 | 12-15 | 3-5 | 3-2 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-26 | 20-18 | 6-5 | 0-0 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-24 | 32-17 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-27 | 8-14 | 5-5 | 15-6 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 35-26 | 10-9 | 6-8 | 14-6 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 42, Xinyu reached the 2nd round after defeating Anna Schmiedlova 6-0 6-4.
In the 1st round, Xinyu had a good straight sets win against Anna Schmiedlova (6-0 6-4). During the match Wang scored 61 points vs Anna Schmiedlova’s 40. Xinyu was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about serving, Wang blasted 3 aces and she was quite consistent in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Xinyu Wang lost the serve once and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Wang put 60% of her first serves in, winning 69% (22/32) of the points behind her 1st serve and 62% (13/21) on the 2nd serve. The Chinese broke Anna Schmiedlova 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
Xinyu’s best result of the season was getting to the semifinal in Hua Hin.
Xinyu has an overall 8-8 win-loss record in 2024, 8-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Indian Wells
Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2023. See her history.
Tennis Scores in Indian Wells
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Nuria Parrizas-DiazParrizas-Diaz (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Tatjana MariaMaria (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Donna VekicVekic (7-65 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Angelique KerberKerber – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (5-7 6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Mai HontamaHontama (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Katie VolynetsVolynets – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Bernarda PeraPera (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Nao HibinoHibino (6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ugo HumbertHumbert – Joao MonteiroMonteiro (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roberto QuirozQuiroz – Matteo ViolaViola (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel BrandsBrands – Nam Hoang LyHoang Ly (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Aldin SetkicSetkic (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Luca VanniVanni – Filippo BaldiBaldi (6-4 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Adrian Menendez-MaceirasMenendez-Maceiras – Cem IlkelIlkel (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andres Artunedo MartinavarrArtunedo Martinavarr – Maximilian NeuchristNeuchrist (6-1 5-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gian Marco MoroniMarco Moroni – Ivan NedelkoNedelko (6-4 6-71 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anna KalinskayaAnna – Taylor TownsendTaylor (7-5 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaBeatriz – Rebecca SramkovaRebecca (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
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- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (0-1) – H2H and prediction
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- Angelique KerberKerber – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Katie VolynetsVolynets (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (0-2) – H2H and prediction
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