WUHAN. Astonishing Mertens exterminates Siniakova in the 1st round

Elise Mertens makes light work of Katerina Siniakova 6-4 6-0 in the 1^st round in Wuhan on Monday after playing a good match to fight against Sofia Kenin in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Elise conquered in the 5^th game (3-2) before winning the set (6-4).

2^nd set.

Siniakova had no answers anymore and Elise won the set 6-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Belgian scored 68 points vs. Siniakova’s 51 points.

Elise served pretty well to win 75% of the points (30/40) behind her first serve. Notwithstanding she won only 48% points (11/23) on her second serve. Mertens was effective in converting 50% of the break points that she conquered (4/8). On the other side, Katerina wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/4). That was one of the key issues for her demise.

After this match, the head to head between Mertens and Siniakova is 3-0 for Elise.

Next Match: Elise Mertens vs. Sofia Kenin – stats

Mertens will compete against Kenin in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Elise Mertens and Sofia Kenin clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Kenin (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they played, Kenin won 1-6 6-1 6-3 in the quarter in Mallorca back in June 2019.

Tennis Scores in Wuhan

• Christina MchaleMchale – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Marie BouzkovaBouzkova – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Yafan WangWang – Lauren DavisDavis (4-6 6-4 4-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (6-2 ret.) – See score progression
• Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (6-7² 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (6-4 6-0) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-2 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Samantha StosurStosur (6-3 3-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Donna VekicVekic (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-1 1-0 ret.) – See score progression
• Alison RiskeRiske – Kateryna KozlovaKozlova (4-6 6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Petra MarticMartic – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Shuai PengPeng (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Monica PuigPuig – Angelique KerberKerber (7-6⁵ 5-7 6-1) – See score progression
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (5-7 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Caroline GarciaGarcia – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (7-6⁵ 6-2) – See score progression
• Polona HercogHercog – Jessica PegulaPegula (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Sloane StephensStephens – Shuai ZhangZhang (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
• Bernarda PeraPera – Jennifer BradyBrady (6-4 3-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Venus WilliamsWilliams (7-5 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Lin ZhuZhu (7-5 2-6 6-0) – See score progression
• Barbora StrycovaStrycova – Xiyu WangWang (6-4 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Caroline GarciaGarcia (1-1) – See H2H details
• Elise MertensMertens – Sofia KeninKenin (0-1) – See H2H details
• Rebecca PetersonPeterson – Petra MarticMartic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Belinda BencicBencic (2-1) – See H2H details
• Simona HalepHalep – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (5-1) – See H2H details
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-0) – See H2H details
• Bernarda PeraPera – Kiki BertensBertens (0-1) – See H2H details
• Qiang WangWang – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Alison RiskeRiske – Monica PuigPuig (0-1) – See H2H details
• Su-Wei HsiehHsieh – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (0-2) – See H2H details
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (4-5) – See H2H details
• Yafan WangWang – Sloane StephensStephens (0-1) – See H2H details
• Christina MchaleMchale – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (1-0) – See H2H details
• Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (0-1) – See H2H details