Donna Vekic and Emiliana Arango will play each other in the 1st round of the Merida Open Akron for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 6:00 pm on AKRON STADIUM. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Donna Vekic who should win in 2 sets.
Donna Vekic -> 1.28
Emiliana Arango -> 3.68
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Prediction and head to head Donna Vekic vs. Emiliana Arango
There is no head to head record between Donna Vekic and Emiliana Arango since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Donna Vekic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14-23 | 9-15 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 2-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-20 | 12-10 | 8-5 | 2-1 | 10-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 29-20 | 16-9 | 4-5 | 2-3 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-20 | 10-9 | 9-6 | 2-1 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-16 | 10-12 | 0-1 | 5-0 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 20, the Croatian will start her run in Merida after she played her last match in Dubai where she lost 7-5 6-3 to Kenin in the 1st round on the 16th of February.
Donna has a compiled 3-6 win-loss record in 2025, 3-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, The Croatian has an overall 397-289 record. She has a positive 224-157 record on hard.
Previously in Merida
Vekic has never competed in this tournament before.
Emiliana Arango
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29-28 | 23-16 | 4-7 | 2-1 | 0-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 23-34 | 7-12 | 14-16 | 2-3 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 48-27 | 10-8 | 28-13 | 2-2 | 8-4 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 12-20 | 7-7 | 5-12 | 0-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 38-20 | 19-9 | 19-10 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 133, Emiliana reached the 1st round after beating Katarzyna Kawa 7-5 6-2 and Maria Lourdes Carle 6-2 5-7 6-2.
In the qualifications, The Colombian defeated Lourdes Carle (6-2 5-7 6-2). During the match Arango scored 104 points vs Lourdes Carle’s 80. The Colombian was very aggressive to blast 38 winners.
About the serving games, Arango was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Emiliana Arango lost the serve 8 times and she saved 3 break points. Furthermore, Arango put 71% of her first serves in, winning 58% (38/65) of the points behind her 1st serve and 33% (9/27) on the 2nd serve. The Colombian broke Lourdes Carle 11 times after converting 92% of her break points (11/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Emiliana started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 57% of the points she played.
Her best result of the season was winning the title the Cancun where she defeated Carson Branstine in the final 6-2 6-1.
Emiliana has a composed 10-3 win-loss record in 2025, 8-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Tennis Scores in Merida
- Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Riccardo BalzeraniBalzerani (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan – Walter TrusendiTrusendi (3-6 6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pedro SakamotoSakamoto – Roberto CidCid (2-6 6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Ivan NedelkoNedelko (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri – Andrea BassoBasso (4-6 7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jeroen VannesteVanneste – Alex MolcanMolcan (6-0 2-2 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jan SatralSatral – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Samuele RamazzottiRamazzotti (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Renzo OlivoOlivo – Viktor DurasovicDurasovic (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Francesco FortiForti – Zsombor PirosPiros (4-6 6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla – Vaclav SafranekSafranek (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild – Carlos TabernerTaberner (6-0 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea CollariniCollarini – Pietro RondoniRondoni (6-4 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Manuel GuinardGuinard – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (6-2 2-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas – Inigo CervantesCervantes (4-6 6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Alessandro BegaBega (7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Sloane StephensStephens – Petra MarticMartic (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Magda LinetteLinette – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Zeynep SonmezSonmez – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan – Magdalena FrechFrech (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Donna VekicVekic – Emiliana ArangoArango (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Mayar SherifSherif – Francesca JonesJones (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rebecca SramkovaSramkova – Lulu SunSun (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Daria GavrilovaGavrilova (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Leolia JeanjeanJeanjean (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (1-0) – H2H and prediction