Elise Mertens defeats Li in the 2nd round to play vs Svitolina at Wimbledon – WIMBLEDON RESULTS

WIMBLEDON - LONDON DRAW AND RESULTS. Mertens conquers Li to square off with Elina Svitolina in the 3rd round

By
Luke Meyer
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Elise Mertens downs Ann Li 6-7(5) 6-1 6-2 in the 2nd round in London on Wednesday. Mertens will clash against Elina Svitolina in the 3rd round. The match lasted 2 hours and 7 minutes. Her best achievement in this competition was reaching the 4th round in 2019 and 2022. Here you can see her history at this event.

Mertens
London
Mertens's Record

Elise added to her prize money £ 53,000 after winning this match. She has already won £ 152,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, Mertens will add £ 88,000 to her earnings to get in total £ 240,000 in total.

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

Mertens
Li
Elise Mertens
6-75 6-1 6-2
2h:07
Ann Li
104
104
Total points
77
77
39
39
Winners
35
35
38%
38%
Ratio Winners
45%
45%
23
23
Unforced
39
39
37%
37%
Ratio Unforced
63%
63%
6/9
6/9
Net Approaches
19/23
19/23
67%
67%
Perc
83%
83%
-- Serve --
7
7
Aces
3
3
3
3
Double Faults
4
4
59%
59%
1st in
57%
57%
81%
81%
1st won
61%
61%
39/48
39/48
1st won
35/57
35/57
48%
48%
2nd won
37%
37%
16/33
16/33
2nd won
16/43
16/43
189
189
Fastest serve
188
188
174
174
AVG 1st Serve
168
168
147
147
AVG 2nd Serve
131
131
-- Break Points --
6/15
6/15
Total
2/5
2/5
40%
40%
Won
40%
40%
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At the end of the match, Mertens scored 104 points vs. Li’s 77.

Mertens

Mertens served pretty well to win 81% of the points (39/48) behind her first serve. Anyhow she won only 48% points (16/33) on her second serve. The Belgian won this match even if she had some problems converting her break points since she converted only 40% (6/15) of the procured opportunities.

Li

On the other side, Li wasn’t that great in converting her break points (only 40% – 2/5). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this match, the head to head between Mertens and Li is 2-0 for Elise.

Draw and next match H2H: Elise Mertens vs. Elina Svitolina – stats

Mertens will come up against Svitolina in the 3rd round.

This will be the 9th time that Elise Mertens and Elina Svitolina face off. The head to head is 5-3 for Svitolina (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on grass.

The last time that they competed against each other, Svitolina won 7-5 6-4 in the 1st round in Bad Homburg back in June 2025.

Elise Mertens Draw info

Elise was great in turning the match in the last 2 sets after losing the opener. In fact, she conceded only 3 games in the last 2 sets after winning 50 points vs. Svitolina’s 25 points.

1st
Mertens
Li
6-7
6
7
6
6
6
5
5
5
5
4
4
4
3
4
3
3
2
3
2
2
1
2
1
1
0
1
2nd
Mertens
Li
6-1
6
1
5
1
4
1
3
1
3
0
2
0
1
0
3rd
Mertens
Li
6-2
6
2
5
2
4
2
3
2
3
1
2
1
2
0
1
0
 

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