HOBART RESULTS. Fantastic Mertens too good for Mchale in the 1st round of the Hobart International

Elise Mertens brushes past Christina Mchale 6-1 6-1 in the 1^st round in Hobart on Tuesday after playing a remarkable match to play Viktoria Kuzmova in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Mertens came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Mchale in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Elise reinforced her lead after breaking Mchale in the 6^th (5-1) game before conquering the set (6-1).

2^nd set.

Elise won the set after she broke Christina 3 times in the 3^rd (2-1), in the 5^th (4-1) and in the 7^th (6-1) game. That break was the key and it was sufficient for the Belgian to conquer the set because she didn’t concede her serve in the rest of the set.

Mchale couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-1 to 6-1).

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Belgian scored 59 points vs. the American’s 28 points.

The Belgian served pretty well to win 88% of the points (22/25) behind her first serve, and she won 57% points (8/14) on her second serve. The Belgian was effective when converting 63% of the break points that she conquered (5/8). On the other side, the American wasn’t able to conquer any break point. That was one of the key issues for her defeat.

After this contest, the head to head between Mertens and Mchale is 1-1.

Highlights Elise Mertens vs. Christina Mchale Hobart International – Hobart

Next Match H2H: Elise Mertens vs. Viktoria Kuzmova – stats

Mertens will fight against Kuzmova in the 2^nd round.

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

The last time that they squared off, Mertens won 6-2 6-1 in the 1^st round in Melbourne back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Hobart

• Lizette CabreraCabrera – Caroline GarciaGarcia (4-6 6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Shuai ZhangZhang – Kirsten FlipkensFlipkens (4-6 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Catherine Cartan BellisCartan Bellis – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (3-6 7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Christina MchaleMchale (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Yafan WangWang (6-1 7-5) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-4 6-1) – See score progression
• Alize CornetCornet – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (7-5 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (6-2 6-1) – See score progression
• Fiona FerroFerro – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (4-4 ret.) – See score progression
• Heather WatsonWatson – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (1-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Samantha StosurStosur (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Nina StojanovicStojanovic (1-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova – Lin ZhuZhu (5-7 6-2 7-6³) – See score progression
• Magda LinetteLinette – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (7-6² 7-6⁹) – See score progression
• Lauren DavisDavis – Astra SharmaSharma (6-3 3-6 7-6⁶) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Elise MertensMertens – Viktoria KuzmovaKuzmova (1-0) – See H2H details
• Heather WatsonWatson – Fiona FerroFerro (1-0) – See H2H details
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Alize CornetCornet (0-0) – See H2H details
• Kristyna PliskovaPliskova – Lizette CabreraCabrera (0-0) – See H2H details
• Magda LinetteLinette – Lauren DavisDavis (1-2) – See H2H details
• Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Shuai ZhangZhang (2-2) – See H2H details
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Catherine Cartan BellisCartan Bellis (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (0-0) – See H2H details