Elise Mertens and Viktorija Golubic will fight against each other in the 1^st round of the Australian Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 4:00 pm on Court 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 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Elise Mertens is the pick to win this match.
Elise Mertens -> 1.4
Viktorija Golubic -> 2.95

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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Viktorija Golubic

This will be the 2^nd time that Elise Mertens and Viktorija Golubic clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Mertens (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they played, Mertens won 6-4 4-6 6-1 in the 2^nd round in Istanbul back in 2021.

Elise Mertens

Ranked no. 34, Mertens will start her run at the Australian Open after she played her last match in Hobart where she lost 6-4 3-6 6-0 to Kessler in the final on the 11^th of January.

Elise has a composed 4-1 win-loss record in 2025, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

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

Talking about her overall career, The Belgian has an overall 451-261 record. She has a positive 267-137 record on hard.

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2018. See her history.

Viktorija Golubic

Ranked no. 90, the Swiss reached the 1^st round after beating Anastasiia Sobolieva 6-3 6-3, Laura Pigossi 6-2 6-2 and Sachia Vickery 6-2 6-4.

In the qualifications, Viktorija had a good straight sets win against Vickery (6-2 6-4). During the match Golubic scored 60 points vs Vickery’s 46. Viktorija was quite aggressive to blast 28 winners.

Talking about serving, Golubic scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Viktorija Golubic lost the serve 3 times and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Golubic put 75% of her first serves in, winning 62% (28/45) of the points behind her 1st serve and 40% (6/15) on the 2nd serve. The Swiss broke Vickery 6 times after converting 86% of her break points (6/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Swiss started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t lost yet a set in this tournament to conquer 58% of the points she played.

Golubic has a composed 3-0 win-loss record in 2025, 3-0 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 3^rd round in 2024. See her history.

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