TENNIS SCORES. Mertens gets by Hsieh in the 2nd round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open

Elise Mertens conquers Su-Wei Hsieh 6-3 1-6 6-2 in the 2^nd round in Osaka on Wednesday. Mertens will play against Camila Giorgi in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Elise won the set after she broke Su-Wei 3 times in the 5^th (3-2), in the 7^th (4-3) and in the 9^th (6-3) game. Su-Wei tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6^th (3-3) game. Anyhow, the Belgian refused to give way before winning the set 6-3.

2^nd set.

Hsieh overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Mertens in the 1^st game (1-0). Notwithstanding, there was more to do for the Chinese to win the set since Mertens succeeded in breaking back in the 2^nd (1-1) game. Su-Wei maintained her cool to break the Belgian in the 3^rd (2-1), in the 5^th (4-1) and in the 7^th (6-1) game.

The Belgian was unable to find the solution in the last 5 games of the set (from 1-1 to 6-1).

3^rd set.

The Belgian in this set was too good for Hsieh and for that reason she won 6-2. Su-Wei broke the Belgian 3 times in the 3^rd (2-1), in the 5^th (4-1) and in the 7^th (5-2) game. However, Elise broke her opponent in the 6^th (4-2) game, but that didn’t prevent her to conquer the set (6-2).

A crucial moment of the match was when Elise won 4 consecutive games in the 3^rd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 4-1.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Mertens scored 87 points vs. the Chinese’s 80 points.

The Belgian was pretty focused in converting 58% of the break points that she conquered (7/12). On the other side, the Chinese was pretty good in converting 60% of the break points that she procured points (6/10). However, that was not enough to win the match.

After this contest, the head to head between Mertens and Hsieh is 2-1 for Elise.

Next Match: Elise Mertens vs. Camila Giorgi – stats

Mertens will fight against Giorgi in the quarter.

There is no head to head record between Elise Mertens and Camila Giorgi since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in Osaka

• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Varvara FlinkFlink (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Kiki BertensBertens (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
• Misaki DoiDoi – Donna VekicVekic (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Sloane StephensStephens (6-0 6-3) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (6-3 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Madison KeysKeys – Zarina DiyasDiyas (5-7 6-0 6-4) – See score progression
• Angelique KerberKerber – Nicole GibbsGibbs (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Viktoriya TomovaTomova (7-5 6-3) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-3) – See H2H details
• Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Elise MertensMertens (0-0) – See H2H details
• Madison KeysKeys – Angelique KerberKerber (2-8) – See H2H details
• Misaki DoiDoi – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (2-0) – See H2H details