Elina Svitolina blitzes Elise Mertens 6-4 6-1 in the 2nd round in Cincinnati on Wednesday after playing a solid match to play Sofia Kenin in the 3rd round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Svitolina conquered in the 5th game (3-2) before winning the set (6-4).
2nd set.
Svitolina won the set after she broke Mertens 3 times in the 3rd (2-1), in the 5th (4-1) and in the 7th (6-1) game. That break resulted decisive for Elina to win the set as she didn’t drop her serve during the rest of the set.
Mertens couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-1 to 6-1).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Elina scored 62 points vs. Elise’s 46 points.
The Ukrainian was pretty focused in converting 50% of the break points that she conquered (4/8). On the other side, Elise wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/2). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this encounter, the head to head between Svitolina and Mertens is 3-1 for Elina.
Highlights Elina Svitolina vs. Elise Mertens Western & Southern Open – Cincinnati
Next Match: Elina Svitolina vs. Sofia Kenin – H2H and stats
Svitolina will face Kenin in the 3rd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Elina Svitolina and Sofia Kenin face off. The head to head is 1-1 for Svitolina and Kenin (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Kenin won 7-62 6-4 in the quarter in Toronto back in August 2019.
