Francesca Jones and Leonie Kung will square off in the qualifications of the Merida Open Akron for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Sunday at 1:30 pm on AKRON STADIUM. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Francesca Jones who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Francesca Jones is the pick to win this match.
Francesca Jones -> 1.3
Leonie Kung -> 3.26
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Prediction and head to head Francesca Jones vs. Leonie Kung
There is no head to head record between Francesca Jones and Leonie Kung since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Francesca Jones
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15-6 | 7-3 | 6-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 33-18 | 3-3 | 28-13 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 21-11 | 1-2 | 18-7 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 0-2 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 30-21 | 6-5 | 24-12 | 0-0 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 136 (career-high), Francesca reached the qualifications after beating Ana Sofia Sanchez 6-0 6-1.
In the qualifications, Francesca had a good straight sets win against Sofia Sanchez (6-0 6-1). During the match, Jones scored 61 points vs Sofia Sanchez’s 31. Jones was pretty aggressive to blast 31 winners.
Regarding the service games, Jones scored just 1 ace and she committed only 3 double faults. Francesca Jones conceded no breaks for the entire match to save 8 break points. Furthermore, Jones put 82% of her first serves in, winning 67% (31/46) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (5/10) on the 2nd serve. Jones broke Sofia Sanchez 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
Jones has a solid win-loss record in the last 9 years having won 64% of her matches (208-117). 5-2 on hard in 2025. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Jones has an aggregate27-23 match record in the last 9 years on hard.
Jones’s best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Cancun.
Francesca has a compiled 7-3 win-loss record in 2025, 5-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Merida
Jones has never competed in this tournament before.
Leonie Kung
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11-10 | 11-6 | 0-3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 54-32 | 19-11 | 30-16 | 5-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 52-27 | 15-12 | 37-15 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 10-27 | 7-13 | 2-11 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-2 |
| 2021 | 13-30 | 5-12 | 1-10 | 4-4 | 2-3 | 1-1 |
Ranked no. 228, Leonie reached the qualifications after defeating Anca Alexia Todoni 6-3 7-6(2).
In the qualifications, Kung had a good straight sets win against Alexia Todoni (6-3 7-62). During the match Kung scored 75 points vs Alexia Todoni’s 63. Kung was quite aggressive to blast 34 winners.
About the serving games, Kung scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 4 double faults. Leonie Kung lost the serve once and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Kung put 74% of her first serves in, winning 69% (34/49) of the points behind her 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the 2nd serve. Kung broke Alexia Todoni 3 times after converting 50% of her break points (3/6).
Her best result of the current year was conquering the title the W35 Timaru where she beat Naiktha Bains in the final 6-1 6-2.
Leonie has a compiled 10-4 win-loss record in 2025, 10-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Jones | Kung |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 13 | 22 |
| Pts | 61-31 | 75-63 |
| Total Points | 92 | 138 |
| Winners | 31 | 34 |
| %Winners | 51% | 45% |
Both Jones and Kung played 1 match. Also both players started their run from the qualifications.Both players have not surrendered a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Jones and Kung have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Jones played 9 games less than Kung. Jones scored 31 winners (51% of the total points). On the other side, The Swiss fired 34 winners (45%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Jones | Kung |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 1 | 1 |
| Avg per match | 1 | 1 |
| 1st in | 46/56 | 49/66 |
| %1st in | 82% | 74% |
| 1st pts | 31/46 | 34/49 |
| %1st pts | 67% | 69% |
| 2nd pts | 5/10 | 10/17 |
| %2nd pts | 50% | 59% |
Jones made 1 ace . Kung also managed to score 1 ace . Jones won 67% points on her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 50% of the points. On the other side, Kung won 69% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 59% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Jones | Kung |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 3 |
| Converted | 5/7 | 3/6 |
| % Converted | 71% | 50% |
| Conceded | 8 | 7 |
| Saved | 8 | 6 |
| % Saved | 100% | 86% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 1 |
The Brit broke her opponent 5 times with a 71% conversion rate. Francesca quite strong on her serve as she has never surrendered a single service game after saving 8 break points. Leonie broke her opponent 3 times with a 50% conversion rate. Leonie conceded her serve once and she saved 86% of the break points that she conceded.
| Jones | |||
| Q1 Sofia Sanchez |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-0 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 13 | 13 | |
| pts | 61-31 | 61-31 | |
| Total points | 92 | 92 | |
| Winners | 31 | 31 | |
| %Winners | 51% | 51% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 46/56 | 46/56 | |
| % 1st in | 82% | 82% | |
| 1st pts | 31/46 | 31/46 | |
| % 1st pts | 67% | 67% | |
| 2nd pts | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 5/7 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 71% | |
| Conceded | 8 | 8 | |
| Saved | 8/8 | 8 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 100% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Kung | |||
| Q1 Alexia |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-62 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 22 | 22 | |
| pts | 75-63 | 75-63 | |
| Total points | 138 | 138 | |
| Winners | 34 | 34 | |
| %Winners | 45% | 45% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 49/66 | 49/66 | |
| % 1st in | 74% | 74% | |
| 1st pts | 34/49 | 34/49 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/17 | 10/17 | |
| % 2nd pts | 59% | 59% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 3 | 3 | |
| Converted | 3/6 | 3/6 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 7 | 7 | |
| Saved | 6/7 | 6 | |
| Saved % | 86% | 86% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | |
Head 2 Head
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