MELBOURNE RESULTS. Superlative Mertens breezes past Watson in the 2nd round of the Australian Open

Elise Mertens too good for Heather Watson 6-3 6-0 in the 2^nd round in Melbourne on Thursday after playing a superlative match to deal with Catherine Cartan Bellis in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Elise conquered in the 9^th game (6-3).

2^nd set.

Watson was totally subdued and Elise won the set 6-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Elise scored 53 points vs. the Brit’s 28 points.

The Belgian was effective when converting 75% of the break points that she procured (6/8). On the other side, Watson was struggling when converting her break points (only 33% – 1/3). That was one of the key issues for her demise.

After this match, the head to head between Mertens and Watson is 4-1 for Elise.

Highlights Elise Mertens vs. Heather Watson Australian Open – Melbourne

Next Match H2H: Elise Mertens vs. Catherine Cartan Bellis – stats

Mertens will fight against Cartan Bellis in the 3^rd round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Elise Mertens and Catherine Cartan Bellis square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Cartan Bellis (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Cartan Bellis won 6-3 6-3 in the 1^st round in Dubai back in 2018.

Tennis Scores at the

• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (6-4 2-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Catherine Cartan BellisCartan Bellis – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Donna VekicVekic – Alize CornetCornet (6-4 6-2) – See score progression
• Simona HalepHalep – Harriet DartDart (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Zarina DiyasDiyas – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (4-6 6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Heather WatsonWatson (6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (6-2 4-6 6-1) – See score progression
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Taylor TownsendTownsend (7-5 7-6¹) – See score progression
• Angelique KerberKerber – Priscilla HonHon (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Belinda BencicBencic – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Carla Suarez NavarroSuarez Navarro (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Arina RodionovaRodionova (6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Nao HibinoHibino (7-6⁴ 6-4) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Saisai ZhengZheng (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Ann LiLi (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Alison RiskeRiske – Lin ZhuZhu (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
• Shuai ZhangZhang – Caty McNallyMcNally (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Polona HercogHercog (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Julia GoergesGoerges – Petra MarticMartic (4-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Qiang WangWang – Fiona FerroFerro (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Greetje MinnenMinnen (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Serena WilliamsWilliams – Tamara ZidansekZidansek (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Madison KeysKeys – Arantxa RusRus (7-6³ 6-2) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Caroline GarciaGarcia (1-6 6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Cori GauffGauff – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (4-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Lauren DavisDavis (6-2 7-6(6)) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Lauren DavisDavis (4-0) – See H2H details
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – See H2H details
• Alison RiskeRiske – Julia GoergesGoerges (1-2) – See H2H details
• Madison KeysKeys – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Petra KvitovaKvitova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Cori GauffGauff (1-0) – See H2H details
• Shuai ZhangZhang – Sofia KeninKenin (1-0) – See H2H details
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (0-1) – See H2H details
• Qiang WangWang – Serena WilliamsWilliams (0-1) – See H2H details
• Belinda BencicBencic – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (0-0) – See H2H details
• Donna VekicVekic – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (0-0) – See H2H details
• Elise MertensMertens – Catherine Cartan BellisCartan Bellis (0-1) – See H2H details
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Simona HalepHalep (0-0) – See H2H details
• Zarina DiyasDiyas – Kiki BertensBertens (1-0) – See H2H details
• Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Angelique KerberKerber (0-4) – See H2H details
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (0-6) – See H2H details