Elise Mertens vs Viktoriya TomovaPrediction, Head-to-Head Results, and Stats
🇧🇪Elise Mertens
#14 · 30 yrs · Right-Handed
2 meetings · sets 4–1
🇧🇬Viktoriya Tomova
#391 · 31 yrs · Right-Handed
13wElise Mertens and Viktoriya Tomova have met 2 times since 2021; Elise Mertens leads 2–0. Their first meeting came at Dubai Duty Free Championships - Dubai in 2021 on hard. Mertens has won the last 2 meetings. Across all meetings Mertens has taken 4 sets to Tomova's 1. Their most recent meeting: Elise Mertens won at Libema Open - 's-Hertogenbosch (2025).
Spread & Straight-Sets Form
Completed best-of-3 matches · Last 12 months
| Indicator | Mertens | Tomova | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicator | Elise Mertens | Viktoriya Tomova | ||
| Wins in straight sets | 71% | 24/34 | 63% | 5/8 |
| Wins a set when losing | 33% | 7/21 | 13% | 2/15 |
| Goes to a deciding set | 31% | 17/55 | 22% | 5/23 |
| Covers −1.5 sets as favorite | 55% | 21/38 | 36% | 4/11 |
| Covers +1.5 sets as underdog | 50% | 8/16 | 18% | 2/11 |
| Tiebreak sets won | 63% | 5/8 | 40% | 2/5 |
| Wins after taking set 1 | 90% | 28/31 | 83% | 5/6 |
| Wins 2-0 after taking set 1 | 77% | 24/31 | 83% | 5/6 |
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. Head-to-head: 1 of 2 completed meetings ended in straight sets (Mertens 1, Tomova 0).
Style Matchup
Playing styles and historical archetype record
Mertens
💥 Big Hitter
Tomova
🛡️ The Spoiler
Matchup analysis
The 💥 Big Hitter archetype wins about 61% vs 🛡️ The Spoiler across 811 matches in our dataset: a stylistic lean toward Elise Mertens.
Big Hitter players often use power groundstrokes and high winner count to pressure the the spoiler's strong court coverage.
Previous meetings
2 career meetings, newest first
Jun 9, 2025
Libema Open - 's-Hertogenbosch
G Grass · 1st Round
Mar 8, 2021
Dubai Duty Free Championships - Dubai
H Hard · 1st Round
Player ROI
Hypothetical if you put 1u on each player to win every one of their matches · Last 90 days
| Metric | Mertens | Tomova |
|---|---|---|
| W-L | 10–6 | - |
| Avg odds | 2.05 | - |
| ROI % | +23.4% | - |
| Units P/L | +3.74u | - |
Travel
Last 30 days
| Metric | Mertens | Tomova |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Mertens has a higher win rate against shared opponents (100% vs Tomova's 0%).
| Opponent | Mertens | Tomova |
|---|---|---|
| Kaitlin Quevedo | W 64 64 | L 06 16 |
| Yuliia Starodubtseva | W 61 64 | L 67 26 |
| Barbora Krejcikova | W 57 61 75 | L 36 36 |
| Laura Siegemund | W 62 64 | L 64 67 16 |
| Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova | W 62 61 | L 36 26 |
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
Barbora Krejcikova
Athens Open - Athens · 1st Round
Jul 14
Hayu Kinoshita
Wimbledon - London · 1st Round Qualifying
Jun 23
Greet Minnen
Libema Open - 's-Hertogenbosch · 1st Round Qualifying
Jun 6
Polina Kudermetova
French Open - Paris · 2nd Round Qualifying
May 20
Irene Burillo
French Open - Paris · 1st Round Qualifying
May 19
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
Mutua Madrid Open - Madrid · 1st Round Qualifying
Apr 20
Laura Siegemund
Porsche Tennis Grand Prix - Stuttgart · 1st Round
Apr 13
Alycia Parks
Porsche Tennis Grand Prix - Stuttgart · 3rd Round Qualifying
Apr 12
Rivalry momentum
Cumulative head-to-head lead over time
Win rate
Matches, sets and games won · Last 12 months · 23–55 matches
| Metric | Mertens | Tomova |
|---|---|---|
| Matches won | 62% | 35% |
| Sets won | 59% | 35% |
| Games won | 54% | 44% |
Record by tier
Head-to-head record by tournament tier
| Stage | Mertens | Tomova |
|---|---|---|
| WTA 250 | 1 | 0 |
| WTA 1000 | 1 | 0 |
By surface
Head-to-head record per surface
| Surface | Mertens | Tomova |
|---|---|---|
| Hard | 1 | 0 |
| Grass | 1 | 0 |
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