Elena Rybakina defeats Elise Mertens 6-4 6-2 in the 3rd round in Paris on Saturday. Rybakina will try to go further in the tournament when playing against Elina Svitolina in the 4th round. The match lasted 1 hour and 7 minutes. Her best result in this event was reaching the quarter in 2021. Here you can see her history at this event.
The Kazakhstani added to her prize money € 92,000 after conquering this match. She has already won € 250,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Kazakhstani will add € 165,000 to her earnings to get in total € 415,000 in total.
Highlights Elena Rybakina vs. Elise Mertens French Open – Paris
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Elena scored 58 points vs. Mertens’s 41.
Rybakina
Rybakina served pretty well to win 75% of the points (27/36) behind her first serve. Nevertheless she won only 44% points (8/18) on her second serve. The Kazakhstani didn’t lose the focus when converting 83% of the break points that she procured (5/6).
Mertens
On the other side, Mertens was sharp when converting 67% of the break points that she procured points (2/3). However, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Rybakina and Mertens is 5-1 for Elena.
Draw and next match H2H: Elena Rybakina vs. Elina Svitolina – stats
Rybakina will take on Svitolina in the 4th round.
This will be the 4th time that Elena Rybakina and Elina Svitolina face off. The head to head is 2-1 for Svitolina (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on clay.
The last time that they played, Svitolina won 1-6 7-65 6-4 in the Bro. in Tokyo back in 2021.
Live score progression and stats
Rybakina won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 5th (2-3) and in the 7th (3-4) game, The Kazakhstani broke back 3 times in the 6th (3-3), in the 8th (4-4) and in the 10th game to win the set 6-4.
Rybakina converted 75% of her break points (3/4). She had 4 break points opportunities in the 6th (2-3 15-40), the 8th (3-4 15-40 and 30-40) and the 10th game (5-4 0-40). Also, on the other side, Mertens converted 66% of her break points (2/3). She had her opportunities in the 5th (2-2 30-40 and 40-A) and the 6th game (3-3 15-40).
They played 59 points. Elena was the winner of the set after clinching 5 more points than the Belgian (32-27). The Kazakhstani surrendered 16 points on serve (19-16). on the other side of the net, Mertens conceded 13 points on serve (11-13).
The Kazakhstani in this set was too strong for Elise and without struggling too much she won 6-2 after breaking the Belgian in the 4th (3-1) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
The Kazakhstani was spot on in converting all her break points in the 4th (2-1 15-40) and the 8th game (5-2 30-40). On the other side, Elena didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 40 points. Rybakina won 12 points more than the Belgian (26-14). Elena was extremely solid on serve to drop just 3 points (16-3). On the other side, Mertens conceded 10 points on serve (11-10).
Tennis Scores at the French Open
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (7-5 6-1)
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Peyton StearnsStearns (6-2 6-1)
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (7-5 6-3)
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (6-1 3-6 6-0)
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Ana BogdanBogdan (7-5 6-2)
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Elise MertensMertens (6-4 6-2)
- Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan – Qinwen ZhengZheng (3-6 6-3 7-66)
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Madison KeysKeys (7-65 7-63)
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Xinyu WangWang (7-5 6-76 6-4)
- Cori GauffGauff – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-2 6-4)
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (6-4 6-2)
- Clara TausonTauson – Sofia KeninKenin (6-2 7-5)
- Olga DanilovicDanilovic – Donna VekicVekic (0-6 7-5 7-68)
- Ons JabeurJabeur – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (6-4 7-65)
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Chloe PaquetPaquet (6-1 6-3)
- Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (7-64 6-2)
Upcoming matches
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Olga DanilovicDanilovic – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Cori GauffGauff – Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto (2-0) – H2H details and stats
- Clara TausonTauson – Ons JabeurJabeur (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Elena RybakinaRybakina (2-1) – H2H details and stats
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Emma NavarroNavarro – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (1-0) – H2H details and stats