Elise Mertens and Varvara Gracheva will square off in the 2nd round of the Credit One Charleston Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 11:00 am on Court 3. 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 Elise Mertens who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Elise Mertens is the pick to win this match.
Elise Mertens -> 1.33
Varvara Gracheva -> 3.34
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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Varvara Gracheva
This will be the 2nd time that Elise Mertens and Varvara Gracheva square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Mertens (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played each other, Mertens won 6-2 6-3 in the 3rd round in at the French Open back in 2022.
Elise Mertens
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 13-11 | 9-7 | 3-3 | 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. 30, the Belgian will start her run in Charleston after she played her last match in Miami where she lost 6-2 6-2 to Townsend in the 2nd round on the 21st of March.
Mertens has an overall 10-8 win-loss record in 2024, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on clay.
Elise’s best result of the season was reaching the final in Hobart.
Talking about her overall career, Mertens has an overall 429-243 record. She has a positive 98-56 record on clay.
Previously in Charleston
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019 and 2021. See her history.
Varvara Gracheva
7 - 10win/loss
91
39
LLWWLWLWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10-13 | 4-8 | 6-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-30 | 23-18 | 7-6 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-32 | 7-11 | 12-14 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-31 | 11-10 | 7-10 | 9-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2020 | 10-14 | 5-7 | 4-4 | 1-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 100, Varvara got to the 2nd round after beating Dalayna Hewitt 4-6 6-2 6-3, Usue Maitane Arconada 6-2 6-4 and Clervie Ngounoue 6-2 6-1.
In the 1st round, Varvara had a good straight sets win against Ngounoue (6-2 6-1). During the match Gracheva scored 64 points vs Ngounoue’s 41. Varvara was pretty aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Gracheva blasted 2 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Varvara Gracheva lost the serve once and she saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Gracheva put 70% of her first serves in, winning 63% (24/38) of the points behind her 1st serve and 63% (10/16) on the 2nd serve. The French player broke Ngounoue 6 times after converting 55% of her break points (6/11).
The French player has an aggregate 7-9 win-loss record in 2024, 3-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Charleston
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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- Emma NavarroNavarro – Katie VolynetsVolynets (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Astra SharmaSharma – Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Shelby RogersRogers (7-65 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Ashlyn KruegerKrueger (6-3 0-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Madison KeysKeys (3-6 6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (3-6 6-4 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Magda LinetteLinette – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-6 6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jay ClarkeClarke – Andrew HarrisHarris (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lloyd HarrisHarris – Kaichi UchidaUchida (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ronnie SchneiderSchneider – Saketh-Sai MyneniMyneni (5-4 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yunseong ChungChung – Jeff WolfWolf (6-3 6-79 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Stefano NapolitanoNapolitano – Alexander WardWard (6-3 2-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Joris De LooreDe Loore – Marc PolmansPolmans (1-6 6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Collin AltamiranoAltamirano – Joao MenezesMenezes (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Borna GojoGojo – Tom JombyJomby (7-5 4-6 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Daria GavrilovaGavrilova (7-2) – H2H and prediction
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Elise MertensMertens (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Sloane StephensStephens (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Ons JabeurJabeur (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Magda LinetteLinette (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Taylor TownsendTownsend (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Jaqueline CristianCristian (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Astra SharmaSharma – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-1) – H2H and prediction
