Cori Gauff obliterates Elise Mertens 6-0 6-2 in the 4th round in Indian Wells on Wednesday after playing an impressive match to face off with Yue Yuan in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 6 minutes. This run will match her best result in this competition. Here you can see her history at this event.
The American added to her prize money $ 84,000 after winning this match. She has already won $ 185,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, the American will add $ 140,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 325,000 in total.
Highlights Cori Gauff vs. Elise Mertens BNP Paribas Open – Indian Wells
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Gauff scored 59 points vs. Mertens’s 31.
Gauff
Gauff served extremely well to win 84% of the points (26/31) behind her first serve. However she won only 18% points (2/11) on her second serve. The American was pretty focused in converting 75% of the break points that she conquered (6/8).
Mertens
On the other side, Mertens didn’t lose the concentration in converting 50% of the break points that she conquered points (1/2). Yet, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Gauff and Mertens is 4-1 for Coco.
Draw and next match H2H: Cori Gauff vs. Yue Yuan – stats
Gauff will play Yuan in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Cori Gauff and Yue Yuan since this will be the first time that they will square off in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
There was not much of a fight in this set because the American conceded no games to Mertens before winning the set 6-0.
Gauff failed to serve out the set when leading 6-0 to be broken at 15.
Coco converted 75% of her break points (3/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 30-40), the 3rd (3-0 0-40 and 15-40) and the 6th game (5-0 15-40). On the other side, Mertens wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 3rd game (0-2 30-40).
They played 40 points. The American won 18 more points than the Belgian (29-11). Coco conceded 7 points on serve (17-7). Regarding the other side of the net, Elise conceded 12 points on serve (4-12).
Gauff was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Elise Mertens in the 2nd game (2-0). However, that was not enough for Coco to win the set since Mertens found the way to break back in the 3rd (1-2) game. The American kept her focus to break Mertens in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
Elise was completely wiped out in the last 4 games of the set when the scoreline went from 2-2 to 6-2.
Coco converted 75% of her break points (3/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40), the 4th (2-1 40-A), the 6th (3-2 15-40) and the 8th game (5-2 30-40). On the other side, the Belgian was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 3rd game (0-2 40-A).
They contested 50 points. Coco conquered the set after winning 10 more points than Mertens (30-20). Coco lost 7 points on serve (11-7). on the other side of the net, Mertens conceded 19 points on serve (13-19).
Tennis Scores in Indian Wells
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- Emma NavarroNavarro – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (6-3 3-6 6-2) – Stats and score progression
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- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (7-5 0-6 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (6-4 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Angelique KerberKerber (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Diane ParryParry – Maria SakkariSakkari () – Stats and score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Cori GauffGauff () – Stats and score progression
- Yue YuanYuan – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina () – Stats and score progression
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- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Marta KostyukKostyuk (4-0) – H2H details and stats
- Yue YuanYuan – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – H2H details and stats
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