Emma Navarro and Petra Martic will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Merida Open Akron for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 8:30 pm on AKRON STADIUM. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Emma Navarro who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Emma Navarro is the pick to win this match.
Emma Navarro -> 1.27
Petra Martic -> 3.76
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Prediction and head to head Emma Navarro vs. Petra Martic
This will be the 3rd time that Emma Navarro and Petra Martic square off. The head to head is 1-1 for Navarro and Martic (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Navarro won 6-4 6-3 in the quarter in Auckland back in 2024.
Highlights Emma Navarro vs Petra Martic – Auckland 05-January-2024
Emma Navarro
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32-25 | 17-14 | 6-6 | 2-1 | 7-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 54-24 | 33-14 | 14-7 | 0-0 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 64-24 | 17-9 | 37-11 | 3-1 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 31-18 | 8-8 | 23-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 19-13 | 6-6 | 13-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 10, Navarro will start her run in Merida after she played her last match in Dubai where she lost 7-6(5) 3-6 7-5 to Cirstea in the 3rd round on the 19th of February.
The American has a compiled 6-5 win-loss record in 2025, 6-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, The American has an overall 209-116 record. She has a positive 77-55 record on hard.
Previously in Merida
The American has never competed in this tournament before.
Petra Martic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15-14 | 6-7 | 2-5 | 4-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 18-24 | 9-10 | 7-9 | 0-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 24-22 | 8-13 | 6-4 | 5-2 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 33-21 | 11-10 | 18-6 | 1-2 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 15-21 | 7-12 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 124, the Croatian reached the 2nd round after defeating Lia Karatancheva 7-5 6-4, Hanna Chang 6-4 6-1 and Sloane Stephens 6-2 6-3.
In the 1st round, Petra had a good straight sets win against Stephens (6-2 6-3). During the match Martic scored 67 points vs Stephens’s 51. The Croatian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 23 winners.
About the serving games, Martic was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Petra Martic lost the serve 4 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Martic put 64% of her first serves in, winning 64% (23/36) of the points behind her 1st serve and 25% (5/20) on the 2nd serve. Martic broke Stephens 8 times after converting 67% of her break points (8/12).
Martic has a composed 9-4 win-loss record in 2025, 5-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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LWLWWWLWLL Tennis Scores in Merida
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Daria SavilleDaria – Anhelina KalininaAnhelina (4-6 6-2 6-2) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- 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
- Jaqueline CristianCristian – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (1-0) – H2H and prediction
