Elise Mertens vs Irina Camelia BeguPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats
🇧🇪Elise Mertens
#14 · 30 yrs · Right-Handed
5 meetings · sets 7–5
🇷🇴Irina Camelia Begu
#453 · 35 yrs · Right-Handed
15wElise Mertens and Irina Camelia Begu have met 5 times since 2017; Elise Mertens leads 3–2. Their first meeting came at Fed Cup WG2 R1: ROU vs BEL in 2017 on hard. On hard courts Mertens leads 2–1. On clay courts they are level 1–1. Begu has won the last 2 meetings. Across all meetings Mertens has taken 7 sets to Begu's 5. Their most recent meeting: Irina Camelia Begu won at Internazionali BNL d'Italia - Rome (2024).
Spread & Straight-Sets Form
Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months
| Indicator | Mertens | Camelia Begu | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Elise Mertens | Irina Camelia Begu | ||
| Wins in straight sets | 71% | 24/34 | 50% | 2/4 |
| Wins a set when losing | 33% | 7/21 | 20% | 1/5 |
| Goes to a deciding set | 31% | 17/55 | 33% | 3/9 |
| Covers −1.5 sets as favorite | 55% | 21/38 | 0% | 0/3 |
| Covers +1.5 sets as underdog | 50% | 8/16 | 100% | 1/1 |
| Tiebreak sets won | 63% | 5/8 | 100% | 3/3 |
| Wins after taking set 1 | 90% | 28/31 | 100% | 3/3 |
| Wins 2-0 after taking set 1 | 77% | 24/31 | 67% | 2/3 |
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: 3 of 5 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Mertens 2, Camelia Begu 1).
Style Matchup
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Mertens
💥 Big Hitter
Begu
💥 Big Hitter
Matchup analysis
Both Elise Mertens and Irina Camelia Begu 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
5 career meetings, newest first
May 12, 2024
Internazionali BNL d'Italia - Rome
C Clay · 3rd Round
Aug 30, 2022
U.S. Open - New York
H Hard · 1st Round
Jan 20, 2022
Australian Open - Melbourne
H Hard · 2nd Round
Apr 29, 2017
Istanbul
C Clay · Semifinals
Feb 11, 2017
Fed Cup WG2 R1: ROU vs BEL
H Hard · Round Robin
Player ROI
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Mertens | Begu |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 10–6 | - |
| Avg odds | 2.05 | - |
| ROI % | +23.4% | - |
| Units P/L | +3.74u | - |
Travel
Last 30 days
| Metric | Mertens | Begu |
|---|---|---|
| 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.
Common opponents
Results vs. opponents both players faced · Last 12 months
Across 3 shared opponents, both Mertens and Begu posted a 33% win rate.
| Opponent | Mertens | Begu |
|---|---|---|
| Diane Parry | L 46 60 36 | W 64 76 |
| Laura Siegemund | W 62 64 | L 46 06 |
| Karolina Muchova | L 61 36 06 | L 16 16 |
Recent Form
Last five matches per player
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
Katie Swan
Wimbledon - London · 1st Round
Jun 30
Karolina Muchova
Bad Homburg Open - Bad Homburg · 2nd Round
Jun 24
Venus Williams
Bad Homburg Open - Bad Homburg · 1st Round
Jun 22
Diane Parry
Bad Homburg Open - Bad Homburg · 3rd Round Qualifying
Jun 21
Tamara Korpatsch
Bad Homburg Open - Bad Homburg · 1st Round Qualifying
Jun 20
Suzan Lamens
French Open - Paris · 2nd Round Qualifying
May 20
Elizara Yaneva
French Open - Paris · 1st Round Qualifying
May 18
Anastasia Potapova
Internazionali BNL d'Italia - Rome · 1st Round Qualifying
May 4
Rivalry momentum
Cumulative head-to-head lead over time
Win rate
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 9–55 matches
| Metric | Mertens | Begu |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | 62% | 44% |
| Sets won | 59% | 43% |
| Games won | 54% | 45% |
Record by tier
Head-to-head record by tournament tier
| Stage | Mertens | Begu |
|---|---|---|
| Grand Slam | 1 | 1 |
| WTA 250 | 1 | 0 |
| WTA 1000 | 0 | 1 |
| BJK Cup | 1 | 0 |
By surface
Head-to-head record per surface
| Surface | Mertens | Begu |
|---|---|---|
| Hard | 2 | 1 |
| Clay | 1 | 1 |
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