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

Emma Navarro

6 - 5win/loss

Hard
6-5
I Hard
0-0
Rank
15
High
8
LLWWWLWWLW
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.

Merida
Navarro's Record

Petra Martic

Petra Martic

9 - 4win/loss

Hard
5-3
I Hard
4-1
Rank
212
High
14
LWLWWWLWLL
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).

Merida
Martic's Record

Tennis Scores in Merida

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