Elise Mertens and Linda Fruhvirtova will clash against each other in the 1st round of Wimbledon for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 7:00 pm on Court 16. 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 Elise Mertens who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Elise Mertens is the pick to win this match.
Elise Mertens -> 1.3
Linda Fruhvirtova -> 3.52

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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Linda Fruhvirtova

This will be the 2nd time that Elise Mertens and Linda Fruhvirtova clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Fruhvirtova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on grass.

The last time that they locked horns, Fruhvirtova won 7-5 2-6 6-1 in the 2nd round in Miami back in 2022.

Highlights Linda Fruhvirtova vs Elise Mertens – Miami 25-March-2022

Elise Mertens

Elise Mertens

26 - 12win/loss

Hard
10-6
I Hard
5-0
Clay
6-5
Grass
5-1
Rank
20
High
12
LWWLLLWWLW
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, the Belgian will start her run in Wimbledon after she played her last match in Bad Homburg where she lost 7-5 6-4 to Svitolina in the 1st round on the 22nd of June.

Mertens has an aggregate 26-12 win-loss record in 2025, 5-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Her best result of the current season was winning the title in Singapore where she overcame Ann Li in the final 6-1 6-4 and in Hertogenbosch where she defeated Elena Gabriela Ruse in the final 6-3 7-6(4).

Talking about her overall career, Mertens has an overall 473-272 record. She has a positive 39-32 record on grass.

Previously in Wimbledon

Previously, her best result was reaching the 4th round in 2019 and 2022. See her history.

Wimbledon
Mertens's Record

Linda Fruhvirtova

Linda Fruhvirtova

23 - 14win/loss

Hard
12-7
I Hard
2-1
Clay
2-5
Grass
7-1
Rank
137
High
49
LWLLLWWWLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 33-24 22-15 2-5 2-1 7-3 0-0
2024 21-31 11-21 5-5 1-1 4-4 0-0
2023 21-28 15-19 3-6 0-0 3-3 0-0
2022 29-18 20-7 7-7 1-1 1-3 0-0
2021 25-8 16-4 3-2 6-2 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 150, Linda got to the 1st round after beating Lea Boskovic 6-4 6-2, Nuria Parrizas-Diaz 6-3 6-1 and Ena Shibahara 6-3 7-5.

In the qualifications, Fruhvirtova had a good straight sets win against Shibahara (6-3 7-5). During the match Fruhvirtova scored 67 points vs Shibahara’s 57. The Czech was exceptionally aggressive to blast 26 winners.

About the serving games, Fruhvirtova wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Overall, Linda Fruhvirtova was very efficient on serve to win 79% (26/33) of her 1st serve and 54% (13/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve twice. The Czech broke Shibahara 4 times after converting 36% of her break points (4/11).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Linda started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t dropped yet a set in this event to conquer 57% of the points she played.

Linda’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in the Puerto Vallarta and the Birmingham.

Fruhvirtova has a composed 23-14 win-loss record in 2025, 7-1 on grass (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Wimbledon

Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2023. See her history.

Wimbledon
Fruhvirtova's Record

Tennis Scores – Wimbledon

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