Elise Mertens and Irina-Camelia Begu will face off in the 3^rd round of the Internazionali BNL d’Italia for the 5^th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 11:00 am on COURT 12. 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 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Elise Mertens is the pick to win this match.
Elise Mertens -> 1.61
Irina-Camelia Begu -> 2.32

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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Irina-Camelia Begu

This will be the 5^th time that Elise Mertens and Irina-Camelia Begu square off. The head to head is 3-1 for Mertens (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.

The last time that they competed against each other, Begu won 3-6 6-2 6-3 in the 1^st round in at the U.S. Open back in 2022.

Highlights Irina-Camelia Begu vs Elise Mertens – U.S. Open 30-August-2022

Elise Mertens

Ranked no. 30, Elise got to the 3^rd round after defeating Katerina Siniakova 6-1 6-4.

In the 2^nd round, Mertens had a good straight sets win against Siniakova (6-1 6-4). During the match, Mertens scored 65 points vs Siniakova’s 50. The Belgian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about the service games, Mertens bagged 4 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Elise Mertens lost the serve twice and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Mertens put 67% of her first serves in, winning 59% (24/41) of the points behind her 1st serve and 60% (12/20) on the 2nd serve. Mertens broke Siniakova 5 times after converting 45% of her break points (5/11).

Mertens has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 62% of her matches (349-215). 4-3 on clay in 2024. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Mertens has an overall 94-52 win-loss record in the last years on clay.

Elise’s best result of the season was reaching the final in Hobart.

Mertens has a compiled 14-11 win-loss record in 2024, 4-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

Irina-Camelia Begu

Ranked no. 161, Begu reached the 3^rd round after beating Rebeka Masarova 5-7 6-3 6-4 and Oceane Dodin 5-2 ret..

In the 2^nd round against Dodin, Begu had a free pass after Dodin retired on a 5-2 . scoreline.

Begu’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Antalya.

Irina-Camelia has an aggregate 10-3 win-loss record in 2024, 10-3 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Rome

Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2016. See her history.

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Mertens	Begu
Match played	1	2
Tot Set	2	5
Tot Games	17	38
Pts	65-50	142-125
Total Points	115	267
Winners	24	68
%Winners	37%	48%

Mertens played 1 match while Begu competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Irina-Camelia Begu surrendered 1 set while Elise Mertens hasn’t conceded a set so far. Mertens has played 3 set(s) less than Begu (2 vs 5). Therefore, Mertens played 21 games less than Begu. Mertens scored 24 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, The Romanian recorded 68 winners (48%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Mertens	Begu
Aces	4	5
Avg per match	4	2.5
1st in	41/61	100/134
%1st in	67%	75%
1st pts	24/41	68/100
%1st pts	59%	68%
2nd pts	12/20	13/34
%2nd pts	60%	38%

Mertens bagged 4 aces . Begu fired 5 aces (2.5 per match). Mertens won 59% points on her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 60% of the points. On the other side, Begu won 68% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 38% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Mertens	Begu
Won	5	7
Converted	5/11	7/16
% Converted	45%	44%
Conceded	3	18
Saved	1	14
% Saved	33%	78%
Times Broken	2	4

Mertens broke her opponent 5 times with a 45% conversion rate. Mertens conceded her serve twice and she saved 33% of the break points that she conceded. Begu broke her opponents 7 times with a 44% conversion rate. Begu conceded her serve 4 times and she saved 78% of the break points that she conceded.

Mertens
	R2 Siniakova	Total
Score	6-1 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	65-50	65-50
Total points	115	115
Winners	24	24
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	41/61	41/61
% 1st in	67%	67%
1st pts	24/41	24/41
% 1st pts	59%	59%
2nd pts	12/20	12/20
% 2nd pts	60%	60%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/11	5/11
Converted %	45%	45%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	1/3	1
Saved %	33%	33%
Times Broken	2	2

Begu
	R1 Masarova	R2 Dodin	Total
Score	5-7 6-3 6-4	5-2 ret.
Tot Set	3	1	4
Tot Games	31	7	38
pts	119-110	23-15	142-125
Total points	229	38	267
Winners	60	8	68
%Winners	50%	35%	48%
SERVE
Aces	4	1	5
Double Faults	5	1	6
1st in	88/117	12/17	100/134
% 1st in	75%	71%	75%
1st pts	60/88	8/12	68/100
% 1st pts	68%	67%	68%
2nd pts	11/29	2/5	13/34
% 2nd pts	38%	40%	38%
Breaks
Won	4	3	7
Converted	4/12	3/4	7/16
Converted %	33%	75%	44%
Conceded	16	2	18
Saved	13/16	1/2	14
Saved %	81%	50%	131%
Times Broken	3	1	4

Tennis Scores in Rome

• Sorana CirsteaCirstea – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (7-6¹ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Qinwen ZhengZheng – Linda NoskovaNoskova (3-6 6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Angelique KerberKerber – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-3 7-6⁴) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Diana ShnaiderShnaider (5-7 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Madison KeysMadison – Beatriz Haddad MaiaBeatriz (6-4 4-6 6-3) – See score progression

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• Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Mayar SherifSherif (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Caroline GarciaGarcia (4-0) – H2H and prediction
• Elise MertensMertens – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (3-1) – H2H and prediction
• Sofia KeninKenin – Rebecca SramkovaSramkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Angelique KerberKerber (2-0) – H2H and prediction
• Madison KeysKeys – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Qinwen ZhengZheng (1-0) – H2H and prediction