Elise Mertens and Naomi Osaka will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the National Bank Open for the 7^th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 7:00 pm on Centre Court. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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The pick for Tennis Tonic is Naomi Osaka who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Naomi Osaka is the pick to win this match.
Naomi Osaka -> 1.31
Elise Mertens -> 3.46

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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Naomi Osaka

This will be the 7^th time that Elise Mertens and Naomi Osaka play each other. The head to head is 4-2 for Osaka (see full H2H stats), 3-2 on hard.

The last time that they played, Osaka won 6-2 6-4 in the 1^st round in Hertogenbosch back in June 2024.

Highlights Naomi Osaka vs Elise Mertens – Hertogenbosch 11-June-2024

Elise Mertens

Ranked no. 35, the Belgian reached the 2^nd round after beating Katie Volynets 6-3 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Elise had a good straight sets win against Volynets (6-3 6-1). During the match, Mertens scored 66 points vs Volynets’s 45. The Belgian was pretty aggressive to blast 26 winners.

Talking about the service games, Mertens blasted 6 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Elise Mertens lost the serve once and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Mertens put 64% of her first serves in, winning 87% (26/30) of the points behind her 1st serve and 35% (6/17) on the 2nd serve. Mertens broke Volynets 5 times after converting 38% of her break points (5/13).

Mertens has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 62% of her matches (355-222). 10-8 on hard in 2024. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Mertens has a compiled 189-110 match record in the last years on hard.

The Belgian’s best result of the season was getting to the final in Hobart.

Mertens has a composed 20-18 win-loss record in 2024, 10-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Montreal

Naomi Osaka

Ranked no. 95, Naomi got to the 2^nd round after beating Ons Jabeur 6-3 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Osaka had a good straight sets win against Jabeur (6-3 6-1). During the match Osaka scored 66 points vs Jabeur’s 49. Osaka was exceptionally aggressive to blast 20 winners.

Talking about serving, Osaka recorded 2 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Naomi Osaka was exceptionally efficient on serve to win 77% (20/26) of her 1st serve and 58% (18/31) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Osaka broke Jabeur 4 times after converting 67% of her break points (4/6).

The Japanese has an aggregate 17-14 win-loss record in 2024, 8-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Montreal

Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2019. See her history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Mertens	Osaka
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
Pts	66-45	66-49
Total Points	111	115
Winners	26	20
%Winners	39%	30%

Both Mertens and Osaka played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Mertens and Osaka have played the same amount of sets 2. They also played the same amount of games (16). Elise scored 26 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The Japanese managed to score 20 winners (30%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Mertens	Osaka
Aces	6	2
Avg per match	6	2
1st in	30/47	26/57
%1st in	64%	46%
1st pts	26/30	20/26
%1st pts	87%	77%
2nd pts	6/17	18/31
%2nd pts	35%	58%

Mertens recorded 6 aces . Osaka recorded 2 aces . Mertens won 87% points behind her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 35% of the points. On the other side, Osaka won 77% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 58% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Mertens	Osaka
Won	5	4
Converted	5/13	4/6
% Converted	38%	67%
Conceded	3	0
Saved	2	0
% Saved	67%	0%
Times Broken	1	0

Elise broke her opponent 5 times with a 38% conversion rate. Mertens conceded her serve once and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded. Naomi broke her opponent 4 times with a 67% conversion rate. Osaka was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Mertens
	R1 Volynets	Total
Score	6-3 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	66-45	66-45
Total points	111	111
Winners	26	26
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	5	5
1st in	30/47	30/47
% 1st in	64%	64%
1st pts	26/30	26/30
% 1st pts	87%	87%
2nd pts	6/17	6/17
% 2nd pts	35%	35%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/13	5/13
Converted %	38%	38%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	2/3	2
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	1	1

Osaka
	R1 Jabeur	Total
Score	6-3 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	66-49	66-49
Total points	115	115
Winners	20	20
%Winners	30%	30%
SERVE
Aces	2	2
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	26/57	26/57
% 1st in	46%	46%
1st pts	20/26	20/26
% 1st pts	77%	77%
2nd pts	18/31	18/31
% 2nd pts	58%	58%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/6	4/6
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	0	0
Saved	0/0	0
Saved %	–	0%
Times Broken	0	0

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