Elena Rybakina vanquishes Elise Mertens 6-1 6-0 in the 3rd round in Brisbane on Thursday after playing an extraordinary match to clash against Anastasia Potapova in the quarter. The match lasted just 56 minutes.
Rybakina added to her prize money $ 17,600 after conquering this match. She has already won $ 38,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, Rybakina will add $ 41,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 79,000 in total.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
0h:56
At the end of the match, Elena scored 56 points vs. Mertens’s 28.
Rybakina
The Kazakhstani served exceptionally well to win 79% of the points (27/34) behind her first serve, and she won 50% points (4/8) on her second serve. The Kazakhstani won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points since she converted only 33% (5/15) of the procured opportunities.
Mertens
On the other side, the Belgian wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this contest, the head to head between Rybakina and Mertens is 4-1 for Elena.
Draw and next match H2H: Elena Rybakina vs. Anastasia Potapova – stats
Rybakina will compete against Potapova in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Elena Rybakina and Anastasia Potapova square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Potapova (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Potapova won 7-5 6-2 in the quarter in Rome back in 2018.
Live score progression and stats
Rybakina had a running start at the beginning of the set after breaking Elise Mertens in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Elena improved her lead after breaking the Belgian in the 6th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).
Mertens was outplayed in the last 4 games of the set when the score went from 3-1 to 6-1.
Elena converted 22% of her break points (2/9). She had 9 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 15-40, 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A), the 6th (4-1 15-40 and 30-40) and the 8th game (6-0 0-40 and 15-40). On the other side, the Kazakhstani didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 49 points. The Kazakhstani was the one to win the set after conquering 17 points more than the Belgian (33-16). Elena was extremely solid on serve to concede just 4 points (17-4). Regarding the other side of the net, Mertens conceded 16 points on serve (12-16).
Mertens lost her way in this set and the Kazakhstani won the set 6-0.
The Kazakhstani converted 33% of her break points (2/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 3rd (2-0 0-40, 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 5th game (4-0 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Mertens wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 4th game (0-3 30-40).
They contested 35 points. Elena conquered the set after winning 11 points more than Mertens (23-12). Rybakina surrendered 7 points on serve (14-7). On the losing side, Mertens conceded 9 points on serve (5-9).
Tennis Scores in Brisbane
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- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Julia RieraRiera (6-1 6-74 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Lin ZhuZhu (6-1 6-0) – Stats and score progression
- Daria KasatkinaKasatkina – Magda LinetteLinette (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (7-5 6-77 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Arina RodionovaRodionova (6-1 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Elise MertensMertens (6-1 6-0) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Darya KasatkinaKasatkina (5-2) – H2H details and stats
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (0-2) – H2H details and stats
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – H2H details and stats
