Donna Vekic and Maya Joint will play each other in the 2nd round of the Merida Open Akron for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 6:00 pm on AKRON STADIUM. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Donna Vekic who should win in 3 sets.
Donna Vekic -> 1.62
Maya Joint -> 2.3
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Prediction and head to head Donna Vekic vs. Maya Joint
There is no head to head record between Donna Vekic and Maya Joint since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.
Donna Vekic
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 10-16 | 5-9 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 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.
Vekic has an aggregate 3-6 win-loss record in 2025, 3-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, Donna has an overall 397-289 record. She has a positive 224-157 record on hard.
Previously in Merida
The Croatian has never competed in this tournament before.
Maya Joint
Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
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2025 | 38-17 | 16-8 | 13-5 | 4-2 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
2024 | 62-28 | 34-15 | 21-8 | 3-3 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
2023 | 11-8 | 7-6 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
2022 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 103, Joint reached the 2nd round after beating Emina Bektas 6-2 6-3, Solana Sierra 6-1 6-1 and Julia Grabher 6-3 6-2.
In the 1st round, Maya had a good straight sets win against Grabher (6-3 6-2). During the match Joint scored 75 points vs Grabher’s 57. Joint was extremely aggressive to blast 28 winners.
About the serving games, Joint scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Maya Joint lost the serve once and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Joint put 60% of her first serves in, winning 72% (28/39) of the points behind her 1st serve and 46% (12/26) on the 2nd serve. Maya broke Grabher 5 times after converting 42% of her break points (5/12).
Joint’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in Hobart and the Cancun.
The Australian has an overall 13-5 win-loss record in 2025, 10-4 on hard (See FULL STATS)
.Previously in Merida
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2024. See her history.
Tennis Scores in Merida
- Manuel GuinardGuinard – Tung-Lin WuWu (7-61 7-63) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alessandro GiannessiGiannessi – Christopher O ConnellO Connell (7-64 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jose Hernandez-FernandezHernandez-Fernandez – Thiago Seyboth WildSeyboth Wild (1-6 7-66 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea ArnaboldiArnaboldi – Riccardo BonadioBonadio (6-3 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexandre MullerMuller – Giulio ZeppieriZeppieri (7-65 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Roberto MarcoraMarcora – Andrea CollariniCollarini (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Federico GaioGaio – Pedro SakamotoSakamoto (7-63 4-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Renzo OlivoOlivo – Gianluigi QuinziQuinzi (6-3 1-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rogerio Dutra Da SilvaDutra Da Silva – Daniel Elahi GalanElahi Galan (6-2 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Francesco FortiForti – Gianluca MagerMager (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jan SatralSatral – Emilio GomezGomez (2-3 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Santiago GiraldoGiraldo – Juan Pablo VarillasPablo Varillas (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea PellegrinoPellegrino – Luca VanniVanni (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrea VavassoriVavassori – Federico CoriaCoria (6-4 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Oriol Roca BatallaRoca Batalla – Pedja KrstinKrstin (6-3 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Andrej MartinMartin – Jeroen VannesteVanneste (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
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- Emma NavarroNavarro – Petra MarticMartic (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Magda LinetteLinette – Zeynep SonmezSonmez (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Donna VekicVekic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica Bouzas ManeiroBouzas Maneiro – Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Emiliana ArangoArango – Francesca JonesJones (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Rebecca SramkovaSramkova – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (1-4) – H2H and prediction
- Daria GavrilovaGavrilova – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (0-1) – H2H and prediction