Elise Mertens and Donna Vekic will clash against each other in the 2^nd round of the Abierto GNP Seguros for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 3:00 pm on GRANDSTAND. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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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 -> 1.333
Donna Vekic -> 3.3

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Prediction and head to head Elise Mertens vs. Donna Vekic

This will be the 2^nd time that Elise Mertens and Donna Vekic play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Vekic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Vekic won 3-6 6-1 6-3 in the 1^st round in Wuhan back in 2024.

Elise Mertens

Ranked no. 21, Elise reached the 2^nd round after defeating Anna Blinkova 6-4 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Mertens had a good straight sets win against Blinkova (6-4 6-3). During the match, Mertens scored 72 points vs Blinkova’s 55. Mertens was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Regarding the service games, Mertens fired 4 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Elise Mertens lost the serve twice and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Mertens put 57% of her first serves in, winning 77% (27/35) of the points behind her 1st serve and 42% (11/26) on the 2nd serve. Elise broke Blinkova 5 times after converting 63% of her break points (5/8).

Mertens has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 62% of her matches (353-219). 12-8 on hard in 2025. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Mertens has an overall 199-120 win-loss record in the last years on hard.

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

Mertens has a compiled 31-15 win-loss record in 2025, 12-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Monterrey

Donna Vekic

Ranked no. 55, Vekic reached the 2^nd round after beating Maria Sakkari 6-2 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Vekic had a good straight sets win against Sakkari (6-2 6-3). During the match Vekic scored 60 points vs Sakkari’s 44. Donna was very aggressive to blast 22 winners.

About the serving games, Vekic blasted 5 aces and she committed only 4 double faults. Donna Vekic lost the serve twice and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Vekic put 49% of her first serves in, winning 81% (22/27) of the points behind her 1st serve and 39% (11/28) on the 2nd serve. The Croatian broke Sakkari 6 times after converting 75% of her break points (6/8).

Donna has an overall 11-18 win-loss record in 2025, 6-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Mertens	Vekic
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	17
Pts	72-55	60-44
Total Points	127	104
Winners	27	22
%Winners	38%	37%

Both Mertens and Vekic played 1 match. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Mertens and Vekic have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Mertens played 2 games more than Vekic. Mertens scored 27 winners (38% of the total points). On the other side, The Croatian managed to score 22 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Mertens	Vekic
Aces	4	5
Avg per match	4	5
1st in	35/61	27/55
%1st in	57%	49%
1st pts	27/35	22/27
%1st pts	77%	81%
2nd pts	11/26	11/28
%2nd pts	42%	39%

Mertens recorded 4 aces . Vekic fired 5 aces . Mertens won 77% points behind her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 42% of the points. On the other side, Vekic won 81% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 39% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Mertens	Vekic
Won	5	6
Converted	5/8	6/8
% Converted	63%	75%
Conceded	6	9
Saved	4	7
% Saved	67%	78%
Times Broken	2	2

Elise broke her opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. The Belgian dropped her serve twice and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded. Donna broke her opponent 6 times with a 75% conversion rate. Vekic conceded her serve twice and she saved 78% of the break points that she conceded.

Mertens
	R1 Blinkova	Total
Score	6-4 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	72-55	72-55
Total points	127	127
Winners	27	27
%Winners	38%	38%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	6	6
1st in	35/61	35/61
% 1st in	57%	57%
1st pts	27/35	27/35
% 1st pts	77%	77%
2nd pts	11/26	11/26
% 2nd pts	42%	42%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/8	5/8
Converted %	63%	63%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	4/6	4
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	2	2

Vekic
	R1 Sakkari	Total
Score	6-2 6-3
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	17	17
pts	60-44	60-44
Total points	104	104
Winners	22	22
%Winners	37%	37%
SERVE
Aces	5	5
Double Faults	4	4
1st in	27/55	27/55
% 1st in	49%	49%
1st pts	22/27	22/27
% 1st pts	81%	81%
2nd pts	11/28	11/28
% 2nd pts	39%	39%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/8	6/8
Converted %	75%	75%
Conceded	9	9
Saved	7/9	7
Saved %	78%	78%
Times Broken	2	2

Tennis Scores in Monterrey

• Steven DiezDiez – Andrey GolubevGolubev (6-3 1-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Marc PolmansPolmans – Sebastian KordaKorda (1-6 6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Aleksandr NedovesovNedovesov – Gleb SakharovSakharov (5-7 6-1 7-6⁶) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Pedja KrstinKrstin – Aleksandar VukicVukic (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Riccardo BonadioBonadio – Vladyslav ManafovManafov (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Lorenzo GiustinoGiustino – Baptiste CrepatteCrepatte (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Alexandar LazarovLazarov (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Federico CoriaCoria – Tomislav BrkicBrkic (6-3 6-7⁴ 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Daniel Gimeno-TraverGimeno-Traver – Evan KingKing (3-6 6-1 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Kaichi UchidaUchida – Alexandre MullerMuller (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Malek JaziriJaziri – Andrea CollariniCollarini (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nino SerdarusicSerdarusic – Max PurcellPurcell (6-7³ 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Andrej MartinMartin – Tung-Lin WuWu (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Marc-Andrea HueslerHuesler (7-6² 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Nicola KuhnKuhn – Akira SantillanSantillan (1-6 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Goncalo OliveiraOliveira – Marcelo Tomas Barrios VeraTomas Barrios Vera (6-3 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings

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