BEIJING. Great Mertens exterminates Martic in the 1st round of the China Open

Elise Mertens routs Petra Martic 6-2 6-3 in the 1^st round in Beijing on Monday after playing a remarkable match to play Bianca Vanessa Andreescu in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Elise in this set played a much better tennis than Martic and consequentely she won 6-2 after breaking Petra in the 3^rd (2-1) and in the 7^th (5-2) game.

2^nd set.

Mertens had a favorable start in this set after breaking Martic in the 1^st game (1-0). Mertens managed to boost her lead after breaking the Croatian in the 9^th (6-3) game before winning the set.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Belgian scored 62 points vs. Petra’s 41 points.

Elise served very well to win 80% of the points (24/30) behind her first serve, and she won 77% points (10/13) on her second serve. The Belgian won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points since she converted only 44% (4/9). On the other side, Petra wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for her demise.

After this match, the head to head between Mertens and Martic is 2-0 for Elise.

Next Match: Elise Mertens vs. Bianca Vanessa Andreescu – stats

Mertens will face Vanessa Andreescu in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Elise Mertens and Bianca Vanessa Andreescu play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Vanessa Andreescu (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Vanessa Andreescu won 3-6 6-2 6-3 in the quarter in New York back in September 2019.

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• Anna-Lena Groenefeld/Demi SchuursGroenefeld/Demi Schuurs – Nadiya Kichenok/Abigail SpearsKichenok/Abigail Spears (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (6-7⁴ 7-6² 6-3) – See score progression
• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-2 2-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-0 3-6 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Madison KeysKeys – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (6-4 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Lauren DavisDavis (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Petra MarticMartic (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Julia Goerges/Anastasija SevastovaGoerges/Anastasija Sevastova – Makoto Ninomiya/Zhaoxuan YangNinomiya/Zhaoxuan Yang (7-6³ 6-2) – See score progression
• Nicole Melichar/Kveta PeschkeMelichar/Kveta Peschke – Jennifer Brady/Katarina SrebotnikBrady/Katarina Srebotnik (6-2 7-6⁴) – See score progression
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Qiang WangWang (5-7 4-5 ret.) – See score progression
• Angelique KerberKerber – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-2 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Bernarda PeraPera (5-7 6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Yafan WangWang – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Shuko Aoyama/Ena ShibaharaAoyama/Ena Shibahara – Anna Blinkova/Renata VoracovaBlinkova/Renata Voracova (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Christina MchaleMchale – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (6-0 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Venus WilliamsWilliams – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (6-3 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Simona HalepHalep – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Karolina Pliskova/Kristyna PliskovaPliskova/Kristyna Pliskova – Lyudmyla Kichenok/Desirae KrawczykKichenok/Desirae Krawczyk (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Jessica PegulaPegula (6-3 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-7⁴ 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Sloane StephensStephens – Magda LinetteLinette (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Samantha Stosur/Shuai ZhangStosur/Shuai Zhang – Alicja Rosolska/Storm SandersRosolska/Storm Sanders (4-6 6-3 10-8) – See score progression
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Monica PuigPuig (4-6 6-3 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (7-5 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Belinda BencicBencic – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Polona HercogHercog – Julia GoergesGoerges (6-7⁴ 7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Donna VekicVekic (3-6 6-1 7-6³) – See score progression
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Shuai PengPeng (2-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Xiyu WangWang (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (6-0 2-6 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Saisai ZhengZheng – Sloane StephensStephens (0-2) – See H2H details
• Angelique KerberKerber – Polona HercogHercog (3-2) – See H2H details
• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Elise MertensMertens (1-0) – See H2H details
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Madison KeysKeys (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Alison RiskeRiske (0-1) – See H2H details
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Naomi OsakaOsaka (1-0) – See H2H details
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Christina MchaleMchale (4-2) – See H2H details
• Belinda BencicBencic – Petra KvitovaKvitova (1-3) – See H2H details
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Sofia KeninKenin (1-2) – See H2H details
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (0-0) – See H2H details