Prediction Of Mertens Vs Vekic H2H, Who Will Win At WTA Dongfeng Voyah Wuhan Open 2024?

What Time Will Elise Mertens Play Against Donna Vekic?

Mertens and Vekic are on the Day 1 Schedule at Dongfeng Voyah Wuhan Open 2024 on October 6, 2024. Lets breakdown the career, past stats and recent form of these players and predict who will get the victory.

Who Will Win In This Head-To-Head?

Elise Mertens (BEL, ranked #30) and Donna Vekic (CRO, ranked #18) will face each other for the first time in the Wuhan tournament. Mertens is participating in her fourth appearance at Wuhan, with her best results being reaching the second round in 2019 and 2017. She is looking for her third Top 20 win of the season, having defeated Madison Keys and Coco Gauff in previous matches. Mertens has a 6-0 career record against Croatian players and has won six singles titles on hard courts. She is currently ranked at No.29, an improvement from her ranking of No.41 last year.

On the other hand, Vekic is also making her fifth appearance at Wuhan. Her best result so far was reaching the second round in 2018. Vekic is aiming to win a fully completed match at Wuhan for the first time in her career. She has 80 wins over Top 50 players in her career, and she has won 12 out of her last 14 matches against players outside the Top 20. Vekic has had a relatively challenging year, losing six times in the opening match of tournaments. However, she has only dropped one opening match since June, at Cincinnati. Vekic has won four of her seven matches against players from Belgium and has won three of her four career singles titles on hard courts. She is currently ranked at a career high of No.18, an improvement from her ranking of No.21 last year.

In terms of their tournament history, Mertens’ best result at a WTA 1000 event was reaching the semifinals at Cincinnati in 2020 and Dubai in 2021. She has faced seeded opponents 46 times in her career, winning only two of those matches. Mertens has a total of 22 wins over Top 20 players, with a 2-7 record in 2024. She has six singles titles on hard courts and is the only Belgian player in the main draw of Wuhan. The best result by a Belgian player at Wuhan was a run to the Round of 16 by Kirsten Flipkens in 2014. Mertens is currently ranked No.30 and had a strong performance during last year’s Asian swing, reaching the quarterfinals at Hong Kong and the third round at Beijing.

For Vekic, her previous best result at Wuhan was reaching the second round in 2018. She has won 80 matches against Top 50 players in her career, with a recent win over Peyton Stearns at the US Open 2024. Vekic has won 12 out of her last 14 matches against players outside the Top 20 since Wimbledon. She has lost the opening match of a tournament six times this year, but only once since June, at Cincinnati. Vekic has a 4-7 career record against players from Belgium and is the only Croatian player in the main draw of Wuhan. She is currently ranked at a career high of No.18, an improvement from her ranking of No.21 last year. During last year’s Asian swing, Vekic qualified for Zhuhai and played in the group stage, reached the second round at Zhengzhou, and fell in the first round at Beijing and Tokyo. So far this year, she reached the third round at Beijing, losing to M. Andreeva.

My Conclusion / Prediction:

My pick is that Mertens will win.
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