Elise Mertens grounds Kristie Ahn 6-1 6-1 in the 4th round in New York on Monday after playing a good match to fight against Bianca Vanessa Andreescu in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Mertens conquered a commanding position in the outset to break Ahn in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Mertens managed to boost her lead after breaking Kristie in the 6th (5-1) game before winning the set (6-1).
2nd set.
Mertens commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Ahn in the 1st game (1-0). Elise extended her lead after breaking Kristie in the 5th (4-1) and in the 7th (6-1) game before managing to win the set.
The American was powerless in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-1 to 6-1).
Statistics
At the end of the match, the Belgian scored 57 points vs. the American’s 30 points.
Elise served very well to win 79% of the points (19/24) behind her first serve, and she won 63% points (12/19) on her second serve. Mertens won this match even if she wasn’t that great in converting her break points since she converted only 42% (5/12). On the other side, Ahn wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/3). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Mertens and Ahn is 2-1 for Elise.
Highlights Elise Mertens vs. Kristie Ahn U.S. Open – New York
Mertens’s Interview
Next Match: Elise Mertens vs. Bianca Vanessa Andreescu – stats
Mertens will fight against Vanessa Andreescu in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Elise Mertens and Bianca Vanessa Andreescu since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Elise Mertens in New York |
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Tennis Scores at the US Open
- Donna VekicVekic – Julia GoergesGoerges (6-75 7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Taylor TownsendTownsend (6-1 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Kristie AhnAhn (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Belinda BencicBencic – Naomi OsakaOsaka (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Johanna KontaKonta – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (6-71 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Madison KeysKeys (7-5 6-4) – See score progression
- Serena WilliamsWilliams – Petra MarticMartic (6-3 6-4) – See score progression
- Qiang WangWang – Ashleigh BartyBarty (6-2 6-4) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Belinda BencicBencic – Donna VekicVekic (2-1) – See H2H details
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Elise MertensMertens (0-0) – See H2H details
- Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Johanna KontaKonta (3-0) – See H2H details
- Serena WilliamsWilliams – Qiang WangWang (0-0) – See H2H details