Paula Badosa and Elise Mertens will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 11:00 am on COURT 3. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Paula Badosa who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Paula Badosa is the pick to win this match.
Paula Badosa -> 1.54
Elise Mertens -> 2.48

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Prediction and head to head Paula Badosa vs. Elise Mertens

There is no head to head record between Paula Badosa and Elise Mertens since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Paula Badosa

Ranked no. 10, Badosa reached the 2^nd round after defeating Lulu Sun 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Paula had a good straight sets win against Sun (6-3 6-4). During the match, Badosa scored 70 points vs Sun’s 51. Badosa was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about the service games, Badosa scored 5 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Paula Badosa was pretty efficient on serve to win 87% (27/31) of her 1st serve and 54% (13/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Paula broke Sun 3 times after converting 21% of her break points (3/14).

Badosa has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 64% of her matches (305-172). 8-5 on hard in 2025. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this event, Badosa has an overall 123-71 match record in the last years on hard.

The Spaniard’s best result of the current year was getting to the semifinal at the Australian Open .

Badosa has a compiled 8-5 win-loss record in 2025, 8-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Dubai

Elise Mertens

Ranked no. 31, Elise reached the 2^nd round after beating Leylah Annie Fernandez 6-2 6-2.

In the 1^st round, Elise had a good straight sets win against Annie Fernandez (6-2 6-2). During the match Mertens scored 65 points vs Annie Fernandez’s 45. The Belgian was pretty aggressive to blast 25 winners.

About the serving games, Mertens scored 6 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Elise Mertens was pretty effective on serve to win 76% (25/33) of her 1st serve and 61% (11/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Mertens broke Annie Fernandez 4 times after converting 31% of her break points (4/13).

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.

Mertens has a compiled 13-3 win-loss record in 2025, 8-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Dubai

Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2021. See her history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Badosa	Mertens
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	16
Pts	70-51	65-45
Total Points	121	110
Winners	27	25
%Winners	39%	38%

Both Badosa and Mertens played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Badosa and Mertens have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Badosa played 3 games more than Mertens. Paula scored 27 winners (39% of the total points). On the other side, The Belgian managed to score 25 winners (38%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Badosa	Mertens
Aces	5	6
Avg per match	5	6
1st in	31/55	33/51
%1st in	56%	65%
1st pts	27/31	25/33
%1st pts	87%	76%
2nd pts	13/24	11/18
%2nd pts	54%	61%

Badosa struck 5 aces . Mertens scored 6 aces . Badosa won 87% points on her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Mertens won 76% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 61% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Badosa	Mertens
Won	3	4
Converted	3/14	4/13
% Converted	21%	31%
Conceded	3	4
Saved	2	4
% Saved	67%	100%
Times Broken	1	0

The Spaniard broke her opponent 3 times with a 21% conversion rate. Badosa conceded her serve once and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded. Elise broke her opponent 4 times with a 31% conversion rate. Elise was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 4 break points.

Badosa
	R1 Sun	Total
Score	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	70-51	70-51
Total points	121	121
Winners	27	27
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	6	6
1st in	31/55	31/55
% 1st in	56%	56%
1st pts	27/31	27/31
% 1st pts	87%	87%
2nd pts	13/24	13/24
% 2nd pts	54%	54%
Breaks
Won	3	3
Converted	3/14	3/14
Converted %	21%	21%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	2/3	2
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	1	1

Mertens
	R1 Annie	Total
Score	6-2 6-2
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	16	16
pts	65-45	65-45
Total points	110	110
Winners	25	25
%Winners	38%	38%
SERVE
Aces	6	6
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	33/51	33/51
% 1st in	65%	65%
1st pts	25/33	25/33
% 1st pts	76%	76%
2nd pts	11/18	11/18
% 2nd pts	61%	61%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/13	4/13
Converted %	31%	31%
Conceded	4	4
Saved	4/4	4
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

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