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.

As per the initial odds, Elise Mertens is the pick to win this match.
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

Elise Mertens

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Rank
20
High
12
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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.

Indian Wells
Mertens's Record

Xinyu Wang

Xinyu Wang

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Rank
57
High
32
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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.

Indian Wells
Wang's Record

Tennis Scores in Indian Wells

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