MELBOURNE RESULTS. Elise Mertens hustles Cartan Bellis in the 3rd round

Elise Mertens ousts Catherine Cartan Bellis 6-1 6-7⁵ 6-0 in the 3^rd round in Melbourne on Saturday. Mertens will seek to keep on going in this event against Simona Halep in the 4^th round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Mertens didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Cartan Bellis in the 1^st game (1-0). The Belgian improved her lead after breaking Cartan Bellis in the 5^th (4-1) and in the 7^th (6-1) game before winning the set.

The American was completely knocked out in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-1 to 6-1).

2^nd set.

Cartan Bellis won the set after she broke Elise in the 3^rd (2-1) game. The Belgian tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8^th (4-4) game. However, Cartan Bellis kept the focus before winning the set at the following tiebreak at 5.

3^rd set.

The American lost her way in this set and the Belgian won the set 6-0.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Belgian scored 99 points vs. the American’s 68 points.

Mertens served exceptionally well to win 79% of the points (38/48) behind her first serve, and she won 62% points (18/29) on her second serve. Elise fired 12 aces and she committed 5 double faults. The Belgian won this match even if she was far from perfect in converting her break points since she converted only 47% (7/15). On the other side, catherine was sharp when converting 50% of the break points that she conquered points (1/2). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the contest.

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

Highlights Elise Mertens vs. Catherine Cartan Bellis Australian Open – Melbourne

Mertens’s Interview

Next Match H2H: Elise Mertens vs. Simona Halep – stats

Mertens will face Halep in the 4^th round.

This will be the 4^th time that Elise Mertens and Simona Halep square off. The head to head is 2-1 for Halep (see full H2H stats), but Mertens leads 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they locked horns, Mertens won 3-6 6-4 6-3 in the final in Doha back in 2019.

Tennis Scores at the

• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Belinda BencicBencic (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Angelique KerberKerber – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (6-2 6-7⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Donna VekicVekic (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Simona HalepHalep – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (6-1 6-4) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Zarina DiyasDiyas (6-2 7-6³) – See score progression
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (7-6⁴ 7-6³) – See score progression
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Elise MertensMertens – Catherine Cartan BellisCartan Bellis (6-1 6-7⁵ 6-0) – See score progression
• Alison RiskeRiske – Julia GoergesGoerges (1-6 7-6⁴ 6-2) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Shuai ZhangZhang (7-5 7-6⁷) – See score progression
• Qiang WangWang – Serena WilliamsWilliams (6-4 6-7² 7-5) – See score progression
• Cori GauffGauff – Naomi OsakaOsaka (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Madison KeysKeys (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Caroline WozniackiWozniacki (7-5 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Elena RybakinaRybakina (6-3 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Alison RiskeRiske (0-1) – See H2H details
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Petra KvitovaKvitova (2-1) – See H2H details
• Cori GauffGauff – Sofia KeninKenin (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Qiang WangWang (0-2) – See H2H details
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (1-0) – See H2H details
• Elise MertensMertens – Simona HalepHalep (1-2) – See H2H details
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Kiki BertensBertens (2-1) – See H2H details
• Angelique KerberKerber – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (7-7) – See H2H details