Elise Mertens breezes past Anna Schmiedlova 6-2 6-3 in the 2nd round in Hobart on Wednesday after playing an impressive match to play Arantxa Rus in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 16 minutes. Elise won this tournament twice in 2017 and 2018. Here you can see her history at this event.
Elise added to her prize money $ 2,568 after winning this match. She has already won $ 6,608 after this win. If she wins the next match, Elise will add $ 5,002 to her earnings to get in total $ 11,610 in total.
Highlights Elise Mertens vs. Anna Schmiedlova Hobart International – Hobart
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:16
At the end of the match, the Belgian scored 60 points vs. Anna Karolina’s 34.
Mertens
Elise served pretty well to win 85% of the points (22/26) behind her first serve, and she won 60% points (9/15) on her second serve. Elise was pretty effective at converting 63% of the break points that she procured (5/8).
Schmiedlova
On the other side, Anna Karolina was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that she procured points (1/2). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.
After this encounter, the head to head between Mertens and Schmiedlova is 2-1 for Elise.
Draw and next match H2H: Elise Mertens vs. Arantxa Rus – stats
Mertens will face Rus in the quarter.
This will be the 3rd time that Elise Mertens and Arantxa Rus square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Mertens (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Mertens won 6-0 6-2 in the semifinal in Daytona Beach back in 1970.
Live score progression and stats
Mertens started the set in the best possible way after breaking Anna Schmiedlova in the 1st game (1-0). The Belgian extended her lead after breaking the Slovakian in the 5th (4-1) game before winning the set (6-2).
Mertens converted 50% of her break points (2/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40), the 5th (3-1 0-40) and the 7th game (5-1 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, the Belgian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 50 points. Elise conquered the set after winning 14 more points than Anna Karolina (32-18). The Belgian was extremely solid on serve to concede just 3 points (16-3). On the other side, the Slovakian conceded 16 points on serve (15-16).
Elise won the set after she broke Anna Karolina 3 times in the 3rd (2-1), in the 5th (3-2) and in the 9th (6-3) game. Schmiedlova tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 4th (2-2) game. Nevertheless, Elise didn’t lose the lead to win the set 6-3.
Mertens converted 75% of her break points (3/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 30-40), the 5th (2-2 0-40 and 15-40) and the 9th game (5-3 30-40). In addition on the other side, the Slovakian converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had her opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40) and the 4th game (1-2 30-40).
They played 44 points. The Belgian was the one to win the set after conquering 12 points more than Schmiedlova (28-16). The Belgian lost 7 points on serve (15-7). On the losing side, Anna Karolina conceded 13 points on serve (9-13).
Tennis Scores in Hobart
- Arantxa RusRus – Varvara GrachevaGracheva (6-2 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova (6-2 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Tatjana MariaMaria (6-0 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Lin ZhuZhu – Caroline DolehideDolehide (5-7 6-3 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Yue YuanYuan – Xinyu WangWang (7-5 6-3) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
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- Magdalena FrechFrech – Emma NavarroNavarro (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Elise MertensMertens – Arantxa RusRus (0-0) – H2H details and stats
