Leylah Annie Fernandez and Elise Mertens will face off in the 1st round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 11:00 am on COURT 1. 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 3 sets.
Elise Mertens -> 1.9
Leylah Annie Fernandez -> 1.9
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Prediction and head to head Leylah Annie Fernandez vs. Elise Mertens
This will be the 3rd time that Leylah Annie Fernandez and Elise Mertens fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Annie Fernandez and Mertens (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Annie Fernandez won 6-3 6-4 in the 2nd round in Guadalajara back in 2023.
Leylah Annie Fernandez
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-25 | 28-16 | 2-5 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 31-25 | 18-15 | 6-6 | 0-1 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 41-24 | 28-16 | 5-6 | 6-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 21-15 | 12-10 | 6-4 | 3-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-17 | 19-10 | 3-5 | 2-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 27, the Canadian will start her run in Dubai after she played her last match in Doha where she lost 6-3 6-0 to Anisimova in the 3rd round on the 12th of February.
Leylah has a compiled 9-5 win-loss record in 2025, 9-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, Leylah has an overall 207-133 record. She has a positive 134-81 record on hard.
Previously in Dubai
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2023 and 2024. See her history.
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, Elise will start her run in Dubai after she played her last match in Doha where she lost 6-4 6-2 to Alexandrova in the 3rd round on the 12th of February.
Mertens has an overall 12-3 win-loss record in 2025, 7-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current year was winning the title in Singapore where she overcame Ann Li in the final 6-1 6-4.
In terms of her career, Elise has an overall 459-263 record. She has a positive 270-139 record on hard.
Previously in Dubai
Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2021. See her history.
Tennis Scores in Dubai
- Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva – Marek SemjanSemjan (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maxim RatniukRatniuk – Nebojsa MilenkovicMilenkovic (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Martins PodzusPodzus – Shunsuke WakitaWakita (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ljubomir CelebicCelebic – Gorazd SrbljakSrbljak (1-6 7-65 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- David PichlerPichler – Daniil GlinkaGlinka (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Milan DrinicDrinic (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Nemanja SubanovicSubanovic (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sebastian PrechtelPrechtel – Dusan RajicRajic (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maxime TchoutakianTchoutakian – Frane NincevicNincevic (4-6 6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pierre FaivreFaivre – Oscar Jose GutierrezJose Gutierrez (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Artem DubrivnyyDubrivnyy – Robert StrombachsStrombachs (7-63 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kenneth RaismaRaisma – Bozo BarunBarun (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Duje KekezKekez (5-7 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (3-2) – H2H and prediction
- Rebecca SramkovaSramkova – Clara TausonTauson (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mccartney KesslerKessler – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Suzan LamensLamens – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (2-2) – H2H and prediction
- Alycia ParksParks – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Moyuka UchijimaUchijima – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elise MertensMertens – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Lulu SunSun – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Donna VekicVekic – Sofia KeninKenin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Eva LysLys – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Peyton StearnsStearns (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Caroline GarciaGarcia (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan – (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Magda LinetteLinette – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (1-0) – H2H and prediction