2023-08-14 09:19:00
In three confrontations on the circuit, all in Grand Slams, she has never managed to take a set from Keys, 28. Mertens lost in the first round of the 2017 US Open, where Keys reached the final, as well as in the 3rd round of the 2019 Australian Open and 2021 Wimbledon.
This is the third complicated draw in a row for the 27-year-old right-hander, eliminated in the first rounds of singles at the meetings in Washington and Montreal, each time in two sets by the Russian Daria Kasatkina (WTA 14).
Eliminated in the semi-finals in doubles in Montreal, associated with Storm Hunter, the Belgian number 1, now 3rd in the world in doubles, is also competing in the doubles in Cincinnati with her Australian partner (4th in the world in doubles). The duo, seeded number 2, is exempted from the first round, and will face in the round of 16 either the Italian-Egyptian pair Elisabetta Cocciaretto and Mayar Sheriff, or the Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu who pairs with the Spaniard Sara Sorribes – Tormo.
Cincinnati is part of the tournaments ahead of the US Open, the 4th and last round of the Grand Slam of the year scheduled for August 28 to September 10 in New York.
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