Elise Mertens and Varvara Gracheva will fight against each other in the 2nd round of the Credit One Charleston Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 8:30 pm on CREDIT ONE STADIUM. Here the head to head stats and relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elise Mertens who should win in 2 sets.
Elise Mertens -> 1.33
Varvara Gracheva -> 3.32
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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Varvara Gracheva
This will be the 3rd time that Elise Mertens and Varvara Gracheva square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Mertens (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on clay.
The last time that they fought against each other, Mertens won 6-4 3-6 6-2 in the 2nd round in Charleston back in 2024.
Elise Mertens
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16-7 | 10-6 | 1-1 | 5-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 28-25 | 18-15 | 6-5 | 1-1 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 30-22 | 24-16 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-23 | 19-14 | 4-3 | 2-2 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-20 | 20-10 | 9-5 | 2-2 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 28, Elise will start her run in Charleston after she played her last match in Miami where she lost 7-6(2) 6-1 to Swiatek in the 3rd round on the 23rd of March.
Mertens has a composed 15-6 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on clay.
Her best result of the current season was conquering the title in Singapore where she overcame Ann Li in the final 6-1 6-4.
Talking about her overall career, Elise has an overall 462-266 record. She has a positive 104-61 record on clay.
Previously in Charleston
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2024. See her history.
Varvara Gracheva
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5-8 | 4-6 | 1-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 29-28 | 13-15 | 15-10 | 0-1 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 36-30 | 23-18 | 7-6 | 3-3 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-32 | 7-11 | 12-14 | 10-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 27-31 | 11-10 | 7-10 | 9-9 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 66, Varvara reached the 2nd round after beating Harriet Dart 6-1 3-6 6-1.
In the 1st round, Gracheva defeated Dart (6-1 3-6 6-1). During the match Gracheva scored 82 points vs Dart’s 65. Varvara was extremely aggressive to blast 35 winners.
About the serving games, Gracheva made 4 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Varvara Gracheva lost the serve 3 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Gracheva put 64% of her first serves in, winning 71% (35/49) of the points behind her 1st serve and 41% (11/27) on the 2nd serve. Varvara broke Dart 6 times after converting 60% of her break points (6/10).
Gracheva has an aggregate 5-7 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Charleston
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd
round in 2023 and 2024. See her history.Tennis Scores in Charleston
- Madison KeysKeys – Caroline DolehideDolehide (6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matias ZukasZukas – Zakhar TrapeznikovTrapeznikov (6-0 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher HeymanHeyman – Shinnosuke HiramatsuHiramatsu (6-74 6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Koray KirciKirci – Mirko CutuliCutuli (6-1 3-6 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jean ThirouinThirouin – Dimitriy VoroninVoronin (5-7 6-3 1-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Denys KlokKlok – Alexander OvcharovOvcharov (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ergi KirkinKirkin – Vladimir KorolevKorolev (4-6 6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
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