Elise Mertens and Mai Hontama will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Japan Open Tennis Championships for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 4:30 pm on CENTER COURT. In the following lines 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 -> 1.2
Mai Hontama -> 4.55

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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Mai Hontama

This will be the 2^nd time that Elise Mertens and Mai Hontama face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Mertens (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Mertens won 6-3 6-2 in the quarter in Monastir back in 2023.

Highlights Elise Mertens vs Mai Hontama – Monastir 20-October-2023

Elise Mertens

Ranked no. 27, Elise will start her run in Osaka after she played her last match in Wuhan where she lost 3-6 6-1 6-3 to Vekic in the 1^st round on the 7^th of October.

Mertens has an overall 26-24 win-loss record in 2024, 16-14 on hard (See FULL STATS).

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

Talking about her overall career, The Belgian has an overall 445-259 record. She has a positive 261-135 record on hard.

Previously in Osaka

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

Mai Hontama

Ranked no. 126, Hontama will start her run in Osaka after she played her last match in Wuhan where she lost 6-0 6-4 to Frech in the 1^st round on the 7^th of October.

Mai has an aggregate 29-31 win-loss record in 2024, 26-24 on hard (See FULL STATS).

The Japanese’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the W100 Tokyo and the W100 Gifu.

In terms of her career, Hontama has an overall 262-173 record. She has a positive 199-124 record on hard.

Previously in Osaka

Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2023. See her history

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Tennis Scores in Osaka

• Suzan LamensLamens – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nao Hibino/Makoto NinomiyaHibino/Makoto Ninomiya – Miyu Kato/Nadiya KichenokKato/Nadiya Kichenok (6-2 7-6³) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lucia BronzettiBronzetti – Cristina BucsaBucsa (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Aoi ItoIto – Sofia KeninKenin (6-2 3-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Shuko Aoyama/Eri HozumiAoyama/Eri Hozumi
  – Mai Hontama/Moyuka UchijimaHontama/Moyuka Uchijima (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sabrina Santamaria/Qianhui TangSantamaria/Qianhui Tang – Katarzyna Piter/Fanny StollarPiter/Fanny Stollar (3-6 7-6⁴ 10-8) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Jessika PonchetPonchet (6-4 5-7 7-6³) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Clara TausonTauson – Katie VolynetsVolynets (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mccartney KesslerKessler – Ena ShibaharaShibahara (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Marco BrugnerottoBrugnerotto – Gabriel PetitPetit (4-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Siddharth VishwakarmaVishwakarma – Jake DelaneyDelaney (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Cheong-Eui KimKim – Naru ShirafujiShirafuji (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Roy HobbsHobbs – Shamirul Shahril Mohd Adam DasShahril Mohd Adam Das (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Connor FarrenFarren – Tom EvansEvans (6-2 1-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Michail PervolarakisPervolarakis – Chien-Hsun LoLo (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Quentin RobertRobert – Cheng-Yu YuYu (6-4 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

• Eva LysLys – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Elise MertensMertens – Mai HontamaHontama (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Kimberly BirrellBirrell – Saisai ZhengZheng (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ana BogdanBogdan – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (3-1) – H2H and prediction
• Moyuka UchijimaUchijima – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Diane ParryParry – (0-3) – H2H and prediction
• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Greetje MinnenMinnen (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Harriet DartDart (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Suzan LamensLamens – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (0-0) – H2H and prediction