Elise Mertens and Taylor Townsend will play each other in the 1st round of the Singapore Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Tuesday at 5:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elise Mertens who should win in 2 sets.
Elise Mertens -> 1.43
Taylor Townsend -> 2.83
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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Taylor Townsend
This will be the 2nd time that Elise Mertens and Taylor Townsend fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Townsend (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on indoor hard courts.
The last time that they played each other, Townsend won 6-2 6-2 in the 2nd round in Miami back in 2024.
Highlights Taylor Townsend vs Elise Mertens – Miami 21-March-2024
Elise Mertens
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-20 | 17-13 | 6-5 | 5-0 | 8-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-25 | 18-15 | 6-5 | 1-1 | 3-4 | 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 |
Ranked no. 32, the Belgian will start her run in Singapore after she played her last match at the Melbourne where she lost 6-4 6-2 to Pegula in the 2nd round on the 15th of January.
Elise has a composed 5-2 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on indoor hard courts.
Mertens’s best result of the current season was reaching the final in Hobart.
Talking about her overall career, Mertens has an overall 452-262 record. She has a positive 43-29 record on indoor hard courts.
Previously in Singapore
Mertens has never competed in this tournament before.
Taylor Townsend
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20-15 | 15-10 | 2-3 | 0-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 24-20 | 21-13 | 2-4 | 1-0 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 32-16 | 16-9 | 12-4 | 2-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 23-8 | 14-5 | 9-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 82, Taylor will start her run in Singapore after she played her last match at the Melbourne where she lost 6-7(6) 6-1 6-2 to Zarazua in the 1st round on the 14th of January.
Taylor has a composed 0-1 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on indoor hard courts.
In terms of her career, Taylor has an overall 290-176 record. She has a negative 7-8 record on indoor hard courts.
Tennis Scores in Singapore
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- Maya JointJoint – Alycia ParksParks (4-6 6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ajeet RaiRai – Abhinav Sanjeev ShanmugamSanjeev Shanmugam (6-1 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rishi ReddyReddy – Giovani SamahaSamaha (4-6 7-63 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ahmed ChaudaryChaudary – Frank TayebwaTayebwa (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Niki Kaliyanda PoonachaKaliyanda Poonacha – Ibrahim Kibet YegoKibet Yego (6-0 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dhruv SunishSunish – Mehluli Don Ayanda SibandaDon Ayanda Sibanda (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sheil KotechaKotecha – Ryan James StorrieJames Storrie (6-2 4-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Guy Orly IradukundaOrly Iradukunda – Sergey BolotovBolotov (6-3 1-6 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Julius TverijonasTverijonas – Kento TagashiraTagashira (6-75 7-63 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Aryan GoveasGoveas – Issa CumaCuma (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Eric VanshelboimVanshelboim – Anirudh ChandrasekarChandrasekar (6-71 7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ivan NedelkoNedelko – Ranjeet Virali-MurugesanVirali-Murugesan (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- S D Prajwal DevD Prajwal Dev – Diego Fernandez FloresFernandez Flores (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Simon CarrCarr – Kunal AnandAnand (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Caroline DolehideDolehide (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Simona WaltertWaltert (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mananchaya SawangkaewSawangkaew – Sijia WeiWei (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Cristina BucsaBucsa – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Xiyu WangWang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Renata ZarazuaZarazua – Hailey BaptisteBaptiste (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kimberly BirrellBirrell – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Moyuka UchijimaUchijima – Olivia GadeckiGadecki (3-3) – H2H and prediction
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Harriet DartDart (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Rebecca MarinoMarino – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yulia StarodubtsewaStarodubtsewa – Tatjana MariaMaria (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Elise MertensMertens (1-0) – H2H and prediction