Elise Mertens and Viktoriya Tomova will face off in the 1st round of the Libema Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 1:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Elise Mertens who should win in 2 sets.
Elise Mertens -> 1.25
Viktoriya Tomova -> 3.95
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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Viktoriya Tomova
This will be the 2nd time that Elise Mertens and Viktoriya Tomova fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Mertens (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on grass.
The last time that they competed against each other, Mertens won 4-6 6-2 6-4 in the 1st round in Dubai back in 2021.
Elise Mertens
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36-20 | 17-13 | 6-5 | 5-0 | 8-2 | 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. 24, Elise will start her run in ‘s-Hertogenbosch after she played her last match at the Paris where she lost 6-4 4-6 6-3 to Boisson in the 1st round on the 27th of May.
Elise has an aggregate 21-11 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the year on grass.
Her best result of the year was winning the title in Singapore where she beat Ann Li in the final 6-1 6-4.
Talking about her overall career, The Belgian has an overall 468-271 record. She has a positive 34-31 record on grass.
Previously in ‘s-Hertogenbosch
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2016. See her history.
Viktoriya Tomova
7 - 14win/loss
132
46
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19-26 | 9-13 | 4-7 | 3-2 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 34-34 | 15-18 | 15-13 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-29 | 16-9 | 20-10 | 4-5 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-32 | 14-8 | 21-15 | 2-5 | 4-3 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 23-32 | 5-9 | 13-12 | 2-7 | 1-3 | 2-1 |
Ranked no. 64, Viktoriya will start her run in Hertogenbosch after she played her last match in the Bari where she lost 6-3 5-7 6-3 to Parrizas-Diaz in the quarter on the 6th of June.
Viktoriya has an overall 7-14 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on grass (See FULL STATS)
.This will be the first match of the year on grass.
In terms of her career, The Bulgarian has an overall 320-261 record. She has a negative 18-19 record on grass.
Previously in ‘s-Hertogenbosch
Tomova has never competed in this tournament before.
Tennis Scores in ‘s Hertogenbosch
- Hayato KudoKudo – Kento TagashiraTagashira (7-67 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ren NakamuraNakamura – Winter MeagherMeagher (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Gengo KikuchiKikuchi – Taketo TakamisawaTakamisawa (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yuki MochizukiMochizuki – Yuta KawahashiKawahashi (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ko SuzukiSuzuki – Yuta KikuchiKikuchi (6-2 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daisuke SumizawaSumizawa – Yuichiro InuiInui (6-4 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- David BarclayBarclay – Jake DelaneyDelaney (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kento TakeuchiTakeuchi – Sam Ryan ZiegannRyan Ziegann (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Soichiro MoritaniMoritani – Tomohiro MasabayashiMasabayashi (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Takuya KumasakaKumasaka – Sota FujiiFujii (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jordi Samper-MontanaSamper-Montana – Shohei ChikamiChikami (7-65 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Dalma GalfiGalfi – Mariam BolkvadzeBolkvadze (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Magda LinetteLinette – Bernarda PeraPera (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Arianne HartonoHartono – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ann LiLi – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Xin Yu WangYu Wang – Kimberly BirrellBirrell (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anastasija SevastovaSevastova – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Elise MertensMertens (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Greetje MinnenMinnen (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (0-0) – H2H and prediction