Madison Keys prevails over Elise Mertens 6-2 6-7(8) 6-4 in the 3rd round in Indian Wells on Monday. Keys will play against Donna Vekic in the 4th round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 48 minutes. Her best achievement in this event was reaching the quarter in 2022. Here you can see her history at this event.

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Keys's Record

Highlights Madison Keys vs. Elise Mertens BNP Paribas Open – Indian Wells

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Keys
Mertens
6-2 6-78 6-4
2h:48
128
128
Total points
123
123
57
57
Winners
46
46
45%
45%
Ratio Winners
37%
37%
-- Serve --
5
5
Aces
1
1
12
12
Double Faults
9
9
59%
59%
1st in
54%
54%
75%
75%
1st won
70%
70%
57/76
57/76
1st won
46/66
46/66
33%
33%
2nd won
40%
40%
17/52
17/52
2nd won
23/57
23/57
-- Break Points --
6/16
6/16
Total
3/15
3/15
38%
38%
Won
20%
20%
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At the end of the match, Madison scored 128 points vs. Elise’s 123.

Keys

Keys served extremely well to win 75% of the points (57/76) behind her first serve. Anyhow she won only 33% points (17/52) on her second serve. The American won this match even if she was not so effective in converting her break points as she converted only 38% (6/16) of the procured opportunities.

Mertens

On the other side, Mertens was struggling when converting her break points (only 20% – 3/15). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this match, the head to head between Keys and Mertens is 4-2 for Madison.

Draw and next match H2H: Madison Keys vs. Donna Vekic – stats

Keys will compete against Vekic in the 4th round.

This will be the 4th time that Madison Keys and Donna Vekic play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Keys (see full H2H stats
), but Vekic has a winning record of 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they competed against each other, Vekic won 3-6 7-65 7-65 in the 1st round in Toronto back in 2019.

Live score progression and stats

1st Set -
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Madison in this set played at a much higher level than Elise and without many problems she won 6-2 after breaking the Belgian in the 4th (3-1) and in the 8th (6-2) game.

The American failed to serve out the set when leading 6-2 to be broken at 40.

Keys converted 40% of her break points (2/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 40-A and 40-A) and the 8th game (5-2 40-A, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, Elise was unable to convert any of her 7 break points. She had 7 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A), the 5th (1-3 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 9th game (1-6 30-40).

They contested 73 points. The American was the one to win the set after conquering 7 points more than Elise (40-33). The American dropped 15 points on serve (25-15). on the other side of the court, the Belgian conceded 15 points on serve (18-15).

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Keys had a head start at the beginning of the set to break Elise Mertens in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Yet, Mertens refused to bow to find the way to come back to break Madison in the 5th (2-3) and in the 9th (4-5) game before winning the set (7-6).

They played 119 points. It’s worth to point out that, The Belgian won this set even if she scored less points 1 than Keys (59-60). Elise lost 29 points on serve (31-29). On the losing side, Keys conceded 28 points on serve (31-28).

3rd Set -
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Keys had a great start in this set after breaking Elise Mertens in the 2nd game (2-0). Notwithstanding, Keys managed to stage a great comeback to break Mertens in the 7th (4-3) game before winning the set (6-4).

Keys was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 7th game (3-3 30-40). On the other side, Elise converted 33% of her break points (1/3). She had her opportunities in the 6th (2-3 40-A) and the 8th game (3-4 40-A and 40-A).

They played 60 points. This set was so close that, Keys won this set even if she scored the same amount of points as her opponent. Keys surrendered 16 points on serve (22-16

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1st
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Mertens
6-2
6
2
5
2
4
2
4
1
3
1
2
1
1
1
1
0
2nd
Keys
Mertens
6-7
6
7
6
6
6
5
5
5
5
4
5
3
4
3
3
3
3
2
3
1
3
0
2
0
1
0
3rd
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Mertens
6-4
6
4
5
4
5
3
4
3
3
3
3
2
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1
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1
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0
1
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Tennis Scores in Indian Wells

  • Donna VekicVekic – Emma NavarroNavarro (7-65 6-1)
  • Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Lucia BronzettiBronzetti (6-1 6-2)
  • Madison KeysKeys – Elise MertensMertens (6-2 6-78 6-4)
  • Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Daria KasatkinaKasatkina (2-6 6-3 6-2)
  • Belinda BencicBencic – Diana ShnaiderShnaider (6-4 6-4)
  • Sonay KartalKartal – Polina KudermetovaKudermetova (7-5 6-3)
  • Cori GauffGauff – Maria SakkariSakkari (7-61 6-2)
  • Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (6-2 6-4)
  • Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (7-5 6-1)
  • Elena RybakinaRybakina – Katie BoulterBoulter (6-0 7-5)
  • Jessica PegulaPegula – Xinyu WangWang (6-2 6-1)
  • Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-0 6-2)
  • Qinwen ZhengZheng – Lulu SunSun (6-4 7-5)
  • Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Clara TausonTauson (6-3 6-0)
  • Marta KostyukKostyuk – Caroline DolehideDolehide (6-3 6-3)

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