Elise Mertens Racquet - Player Profile

Updated 16th June 2025
Elise Mertens is a former no 1 ranked doubles player on the WTA tour with a total 31 Tour titles on tour. She has been playing with many different racquet setups over the years, so let’s look at her current racquet and some career info.

Merten’s tennis racquet

If you check the archives for Elise Mertens tennis pics you will notice that she has tried many different racquets. In recent times she has gone from a HEAD Speed to a Babolat Pure Aero and now most recently to a Tecnifibre Tempo 298 IGA. Digging through the archives I also saw a Prince and a Pure Drive. I don’t know Elise Mertens racquet specs, but on the WTA tour most players seem to play close to stock tweener specs. We’re not seeing the kind of swing weights that ATP pros use, but even on the men’s tour racquets are getting lighter.

Tecnifibre has done a good job in signing players the last couple of years. Iga Swiatek is now a pretty undisputable world number one, Daniil Medvedev is number 2 on the ATP Tour and they have some up-and-coming junior players using TF40 and Tfight racquets. Now Belgian star Elise Mertens joins team Tecnifibre.

Why does certain pros change racquets? Well, it can depend on a number of reasons. They can have a new agent who wants to go after new commercial contracts to get more commission (this happens quite often). Or they can just be feeling that something is missing with their current setup and if the contract has expired, they might be testing to see what racquet/brand they want to go for next. Sadly, for the pros, they don’t have a lot of time to test new racquets, since the off-season is short in tennis and there is pretty much a new tournament every week. So a new racquet might come at a cost of getting used to it and adapting their game.

More on Elise Mertens

Elise Mertens was born November 17th, 1995, in Leuven, Belgium and began playing tennis at age 4. She trained under Belgian Federation until her early teens and she also spent a year at the Mouratoglou Academy in France.

Turning pro in 2013, Mertens reached a junior peak of no 7. She was always a great doubles player and won her first WTA doubles title at the 2016 Auckland Open, together with An-Sophie Mestach.

Her breakthrough came in 2017, winning her first WTA singles title at the Hobart International as a qualifier, defeating Monica Niculescu. This got her into the WTA top 100 in the rankings. The year after we saw Mertens win a Masters doubles title and three singles titles, cementing her place among the top in the world.

In doubles, Mertens is a four-time Grand Slam champion, winning the 2019 US Open and 2021 Australian Open with Aryna Sabalenka, and the 2021 Wimbledon and 2024 Australian Open with Hsieh Su-wei.

She became world no 1 in doubles in May 2021 and reached her career-high singles rank of world no 12 in November 2018. In total she has ten WTA singles titles and 21 doubles titles.