Unrelenting Elise Mertens breezes past Burel in the semifinal to set up a clash vs Paolini. HIGHLIGHTS – MONASTIR RESULTS

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

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 5^th 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 1^st 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 2^nd 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 3^rd (1-2) and in the 7^th (2-5) game. The Belgian kept her cool to break the French player in the 4^th (3-1), in the 6^th (5-1) and in the 8^th (6-2) game.

Elise failed to serve out the set when leading 6-2 to be broken at 30.

The French player lost the 2^nd 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 2^nd (1-0 40-A), the 4^th (2-1 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A), the 6^th (4-1 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 8^th 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 1^st (0-0 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 2^nd (0-2 40-A) and the 7^th 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 2^nd 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 5^th (1-4) game. The Belgian kept her focus to break the French player in the 6^th (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 1^st (0-0 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 4^th (3-0 30-40) and the 6^th game (4-1 15-40). On the other side, Clara was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 5^th 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