Elise Mertens soars past Clara Burel 6-2 6-1 in the semifinal in Monastir on Saturday after playing a good match to deal with Jasmine Paolini in the final. The match lasted 1 hour and 23 minutes. The Belgian won this tournament once in 2022. Here you can see her history at this event.
Highlights Elise Mertens vs. Clara Burel Jasmin Open Tunisia – Monastir
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:23
At the end of the match, Elise scored 66 points vs. Burel’s 44.
Mertens
Mertens was effective at converting 54% of the break points that she procured (7/13).
Burel
On the other side, the French player was pretty good at converting 50% of the break points that she conquered points (3/6). However, that was not enough to win the encounter.
After this match, the head to head between Mertens and Burel is 1-0 for Elise.
Draw and next match H2H: Elise Mertens vs. Jasmine Paolini – stats
Mertens will compete against Paolini in the final.
This will be the 5th time that Elise Mertens and Jasmine Paolini face off. The head to head is 3-1 for Mertens (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they played, Mertens won 6-3 2-6 7-5 in the 1st round in Doha back in 2022.
Live score progression and stats
Mertens got off on the right foot in the set after breaking Clara Burel in the 2nd game (2-0). Anyhow, there was more work to do for Elise to win the set since Clara found the way to break back in the 3rd (1-2) and in the 7th (2-5) game. The Belgian kept her cool to break the French player in the 4th (3-1), in the 6th (5-1) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
Elise failed to serve out the set when leading 6-2 to be broken at 30.
The French player lost the 2nd game (2-0) when she had a good chance to win the game when leading 40-0.
The Belgian converted 50% of her break points (4/8). She had 8 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 40-A), the 4th (2-1 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A), the 6th (4-1 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 8th game (5-2 30-40). In addition on the other side, Clara converted 40% of her break points (2/5). She had her opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 2nd (0-2 40-A) and the 7th game (1-5 40-A).
They contested 76 points. Mertens conquered the set after winning 10 points more than Burel (43-33). The Belgian lost 20 points on serve (22-20). On the other side, Clara conceded 21 points on serve (13-21).
Mertens had a strong start of this set after breaking Clara Burel in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Nonetheless, there was more work to do for Elise to win the set as Burel managed to break back in the 5th (1-4) game. The Belgian kept her focus to break the French player in the 6th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).
Mertens converted 60% of her break points (3/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 4th (3-0 30-40) and the 6th game (4-1 15-40). On the other side, Clara was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 5th game (0-4 15-40).
They contested 34 points. The Belgian was the one to win the set after conquering 12 points more than Clara (23-11). The Belgian was extremely solid on serve to concede just 4 points (9-4). In addition, on the other side, Burel conceded 14 points on serve (7-14).
Tennis Scores in Monastir
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Lesya TsurenkoTsurenko (6-2 4-6 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Clara BurelBurel (6-2 6-1) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Elise MertensMertens (1-3) – H2H details and stats
