Halep gets the better of Mertens in the AO 4th round. Kontaveit Next. H2H, PREDICTION

Simona Halep prevails over Elise Mertens 6-4 6-4 in the 4^th round in Melbourne on Monday. Halep will engage against Anett Kontaveit in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Halep won the set after she broke Elise in the 3^rd (2-1) and in the 9^th (5-4) game. Mertens tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6^th (3-3) game. Nevertheless, Halep kept the focus before winning the set 6-4.

2^nd set.

Halep overpowered the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Mertens in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Notwithstanding, there was more to do for Halep to win the set since Mertens succeeded in breaking back in the 4^th (1-3) and in the 8^th (4-4) game. Simona maintained her focus to break Elise in the 9^th (5-4) game before managing to win the set (6-4).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Simona scored 77 points vs. the Belgian’s 67 points.

Simona won this match even if she was far from perfect in converting her break points since she converted only 36% (5/14). On the other side, the Belgian was effective when converting 60% of the break points that she procured points (3/5). Yet, that was not enough to win the contest.

After this contest, the head to head between Halep and Mertens is 3-1 for Simona.

Highlights Simona Halep vs. Elise Mertens Australian Open – Melbourne

Halep’s Interview

Next Match H2H, Prediction: Simona Halep vs. Anett Kontaveit – stats

Prediction: Halep in 2 sets

Halep will face Kontaveit in the quarter. This will be the 3^rd time that Simona Halep and Anett Kontaveit face off. The head to head is 2-0 for Halep (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Halep won 6-2 6-4 in the quarter in Rome back in 2017.

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Tennis Scores at the

• Simona HalepHalep – Elise MertensMertens (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (6-7⁴ 7-5 7-5) – See score progression
• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Angelique KerberKerber (6-7⁵ 7-6⁴ 6-2) – See score progression
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Kiki BertensBertens (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Cori GauffGauff (6-7⁵ 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Alison RiskeRiske (6-3 1-6 6-4) – See score progression
• Petra KvitovaKvitova – Maria SakkariSakkari (6-7⁴ 6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Qiang WangWang (7-6⁴ 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Petra KvitovaKvitova (3-4) – See H2H details
• Sofia KeninKenin – Ons JabeurJabeur (2-0) – See H2H details
• Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Simona HalepHalep (0-2) – See H2H details
• Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (4-1) – See H2H details