Danielle Collins vs Elise MertensPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats
🇺🇸Danielle Collins
Unranked · 32 yrs · Right-Handed
59w7 meetings · sets 9–7
🇧🇪Elise Mertens
#14 · 30 yrs · Right-Handed
Danielle Collins and Elise Mertens have met 7 times since 2018; Danielle Collins leads 4–3. Their first meeting came at Wimbledon in 2018 on grass. On hard courts Collins leads 3–2. Across all meetings Collins has taken 9 sets to Mertens's 7. Their most recent meeting: Danielle Collins won at Credit One Charleston Open - Charleston (2024).
Spread & Straight-Sets Form
Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months
| Indicator | Collins | Mertens | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Danielle Collins | Elise Mertens | ||
| Wins in straight sets | — | 71% | 24/34 | |
| Wins a set when losing | — | 33% | 7/21 | |
| Goes to a deciding set | — | 31% | 17/55 | |
| Covers −1.5 sets as favorite | — | 55% | 21/38 | |
| Covers +1.5 sets as underdog | — | 50% | 8/16 | |
| Tiebreak sets won | — | 63% | 5/8 | |
| Wins after taking set 1 | — | 90% | 28/31 | |
| Wins 2-0 after taking set 1 | — | 77% | 24/31 | |
Colored rows are higher-is-better: green above 50%, red below. Favorite/underdog set by book odds; cover rows count only matches with odds on record. Small sample — read with care. Head-to-head: 5 of 7 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Collins 3, Mertens 2).
Style Matchup
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Collins
💥 Big Hitter
Mertens
💥 Big Hitter
Matchup analysis
Both Danielle Collins and Elise Mertens are 💥 Big Hitter types. Mirror matchups usually come down to execution, fitness, and surface fit, across 5,594 matches in our dataset the historical split is about even.
Previous meetings
7 career meetings, newest first
Apr 5, 2024
Credit One Charleston Open - Charleston
C Clay · Quarterfinals
Jan 8, 2024
Hobart International - Hobart
H Hard · 1st Round
Aug 30, 2023
U.S. Open - New York
H Hard · 2nd Round
Feb 14, 2023
Qatar TotalEnergies Open - Doha
H Hard · 1st Round
Jan 24, 2022
Australian Open - Melbourne
H Hard · 4th Round
Sep 30, 2021
Chicago Fall Tennis Classic - Chicago
H Hard · 3rd Round
Jul 3, 2018
Wimbledon
G Grass · Round of 128
Player ROI
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Collins | Mertens |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | - | 10–6 |
| Avg odds | - | 2.05 |
| ROI % | - | +23.4% |
| Units P/L | - | +3.74u |
Travel
Last 30 days
| Metric | Collins | Mertens |
|---|---|---|
| Countries | — | 2 |
| Events | — | 2 |
| Matches | — | 6 |
| Distance | — | 2,779 mi · 4,472 km |
| Route | — | SGP → ROU |
Host country from each tournament in the last 30 days, including the current event even when a player arrived on a bye. Route is the order of countries visited; consecutive stops in the same country are shown once. Distance is the great-circle total between host cities, shown only when every stop in the window is geocoded. A rough fatigue signal, not a headline stat.
Recent Form
Last five matches per player
Jaqueline Cristian
U.S. Open - New York · 1st Round
Aug 26
Taylor Townsend
Cincinnati Open - Cincinnati · 1st Round
Aug 8
Coco Gauff
Omnium Banque Nationale - Montreal · 2nd Round
Jul 29
Viktoriya Tomova
Omnium Banque Nationale - Montreal · 1st Round
Jul 27
Magda Linette
Mubadala Citi DC Open - Washington · 1st Round
Jul 21
Iga Swiatek
Wimbledon - London · 3rd Round
Jul 5
Veronika Erjavec
Wimbledon - London · 2nd Round
Jul 3
Maria Victoria Quinde Serrano
Wimbledon - London · 1st Round
Jul 1
Qinwen Zheng
China Open - Beijing · Semifinals
Oct 10
Iga Swiatek
China Open - Beijing · Quarterfinals
Oct 9
Coco Gauff
China Open - Beijing · 4th Round
Oct 7
Jelena Ostapenko
China Open - Beijing · 3rd Round
Oct 5
Katie Volynets
China Open - Beijing · 2nd Round
Oct 3
Maja Chwalinska
Singapore Tennis Open - Singapore · Quarterfinals
Sep 25
Naomi Osaka
U.S. Open - New York · 3rd Round
Sep 6
Maria Timofeeva
U.S. Open - New York · 2nd Round
Sep 3
Rivalry momentum
Cumulative head-to-head lead over time
Win rate
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 55–55 matches
| Metric | Collins | Mertens |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | - | 62% |
| Sets won | - | 59% |
| Games won | - | 54% |
Record by tier
Head-to-head record by tournament tier
| Stage | Collins | Mertens |
|---|---|---|
| Grand Slam | 1 | 2 |
| WTA 500 | 3 | 0 |
| WTA 250 | 0 | 1 |
By surface
Head-to-head record per surface
| Surface | Collins | Mertens |
|---|---|---|
| Hard | 3 | 2 |
| Clay | 1 | 0 |
| Grass | 0 | 1 |
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