Madrid Open: Mertens downs Niemeier to reach fourth round
Elise Mertens beat Jule Niemeier 6-3, 6-4 on Saturday and will play the winner of the match between Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, the No 5 seed, and Egyptian Mayar Sherif in the next round
Belgian Elise Mertens, the No 24 seed, advanced to the fourth round of the Madrid Open by winning against German Jule Niemeier 6-3, 6-4 at the Caja Magica on Saturday.
Mertens, ranked No 29, will face the winner of the match between Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, the No 5 seed, and Egyptian Mayar Sherif next.
The Belgian defeated Canadian Rebecca Marino (6-3, 6-1) ahead of her victory.
In the previous rounds of the Madrid tournament, Niemeier, ranked No 67, won against Chinese Xinyu Wang (6-4, 6-2) and Czech Petra Kvitova, the No 10 seed (7-6 (9), 6-1).
Madrid WTA 1000, other first-round results (Caja Magica, clay, USD 7.652.174, most recent results first):
- Petra Martic vs. Anna Kalinskaya
- Barbora Krejcikova vs. Xiyu Wang
- Qinwen Zheng vs. Ekaterina Alexandrova
- Iga Swiatek vs. Bernarda Pera
- Lesia Tsurenko vs. Daria Kasatkina
- Veronika Kudermetova vs. Anastasia Potapova
- Martina Trevisan vs. Alycia Parks
- Jessica Pegula vs. Marie Bouzkova
- Rebeka Masarova vs. Maria Sakkari
- Caroline Garcia vs. Mayar Sherif
- Coco Gauff vs. Paula Badosa
- Mirra Andreeva vs. Magda Linette
- Liudmila Samsonova vs. Jelena Ostapenko
- Camila Osorio vs. Aryna Sabalenka: saturday
- Irina-Camelia Begu (31) beat Shelby Rogers (33): 7-5, 6-2
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