Marketa Vondrousova hustles Elise Mertens 7-5 6-2 in the quarter in Luxembourg on Friday. Vondrousova will square off with Clara Tauson in the semifinal. The match lasted 1 hour and 37 minutes.
Vondrousova added to her prize money € 3,469 after conquering this match. She has won already € 8,145 as of now in this competition. If she wins the next match, Vondrousova will add € 5,079 to her earnings to get in total € 13,224.
Highlights Marketa Vondrousova vs. Elise Mertens BGL Luxembourg Open – Luxembourg
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Marketa scored 72 points vs. Mertens’s 57.
Vondrousova
The Czech was pretty effective at converting 50% of the break points that she conquered (5/10).
Mertens
On the other side, Mertens was effective at converting 50% of the break points that she procured points (2/4). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.
After this encounter, the head to head between Vondrousova and Mertens is 2-2.
Draw and next match H2H: Marketa Vondrousova vs. Clara Tauson – stats
Vondrousova will face Tauson in the semifinal.
There is no head to head record between Marketa Vondrousova and Clara Tauson since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Tauson came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Elise Mertens in the 2nd game (2-0). However, Vondrousova was not done to come back to break the Belgian 3 times in the 3rd (1-2), in the 9th (4-5) and in the 11th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).
Elise was eclipsed in the last 3 games of the set when the score went from 3-5 to 7-5.
They played 82 points. The set was a huge battle since finally the Czech won just 2 points more than the Belgian (42-40). Marketa lost 20 points on serve (23-20). on the other side of the net, Elise conceded 19 points on serve (20-19).
Marketa in this set was much more effective than Elise and finally she won 6-2 after breaking Elise in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.
Certainly, a key moment was when Marketa won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set so as to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 5-1.
They played 47 points. The Czech was the one to win the set after conquering 15 more points than the Belgian (31-16). The Czech was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (16-4). In addition, on the other side, Elise conceded 15 points on serve (12-15).
Tennis Scores in Luxembourg
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Elise MertensMertens (7-5 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Alize CornetCornet (7-66 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Belinda BencicBencic (6-1 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Clara TausonTauson – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (6-3 6-2) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Clara TausonTauson – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (0-0) – H2H details and stats