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Qatar Total Open February 11 – 16, 2019 Women’S Tennis Association Match Notes QATAR TOTAL OPEN FEBRUARY 11 – 16, 2019 WOMEN’S TENNIS ASSOCIATION MATCH NOTES DOHA, QATAR | FEBRUARY 11 - 16, 2019 | USD $916,131 WTA PREMIER EVENT wtatennis.com | facebook.com/WTA | twitter.com/WTA | youtube.com/WTA Tournament Website: www.qatartennis.org | @QatarTennis | facebook.com/qatartennis WTA Communications: Xu Yanyan ([email protected]) QATAR TOTAL OPEN - FINAL MATCH-UP [1] SIMONA HALEP (ROU #3) vs. ELISE MERTENS (BEL #21) Halep leads 2-0 Halep dropped only three games in each of her previous meetings with Mertens... Mertens has claimed two Top- 10 wins already this week... Halep appearing in first final since last summer... Henin, the 2007 champion, is the only Belgian other than Mertens to reach the final here...Halep trailed 4-1 in the final set against Svitolina in SF HARDCOURT BREAKDOWN HALEP MERTENS Win/Loss: 199 - 97 Win/Loss: 52 - 32 Winning Percentage: .672 Winning Percentage: .619 Final Record: 10 - 7 Final Record: 2 - 0 THE FINALISTS CAREER PLAYER DOHA W/L YTD W/L CAREER W/L YTD PRIZE $ CAREER PRIZE $ YTD TITLES TITLES [1] Simona Halep 14-3 8-2 458-199 205,063 28,350,642 0 18 Elise Mertens 4-1 8-5 263-137 166,333 3,326,579 0 4 FINAL RECORDS PLAYER 2019 BEST RESULT BEST DOHA RESULT LAST FINAL REACHED CAREER FINAL W/L [1] Simona Halep FINAL (1): Doha WON (1): 2014 2018 Cincinnati (R-UP) 18-15 Elise Mertens FINAL (1): Doha FINAL (1): 2019 2018 Rabat (WON) 4-1 WOMEN’S TENNIS ASSOCIATION MATCH NOTES RANKING WATCH DOUBLING DOWN Simona Halep’s progress this week guarantees she will Simona Halep has won multiple titles at four tour stop- move to No.2 in next week's rankings. Since June 12, offs during her career: Bucharest (2014 and 2016), Madrid 2017, Halep has been ranked either No.1 or No.2 for all (2016 and 2017), Shenzhen (2015 and 2018) and Mon- bar the past three weeks. tréal (2016 and 2018). Elise Mertens will rise from No.21 to No.18 by reach- Today she attempts to add a fifth city to this list and in ing the final and is projected to go to No.16 with a title doing so become only the fourth player to be crowned a run. Her career-high ranking is No.12 (first achieved on two-time champion in Doha. November 26, 2018). And if the Belgian is looking for good omens the rankings provide one: Petra Kvitova, last year's champion, also entered the tournament at No.21. MAKING THE STEP UP Five years ago, victory for a 22-year-old Simona Halep in the final of the Qatar Total Open proved to be a harbinger of future glories. Elise Mertens, 23, will attempt to follow in her footsteps on Saturday and win the biggest trophy of her career at the same venue. A serial winner at the WTA's Internation- al-level tournaments, Mertens's deepest runs at the rungs above have been semifinal showings at New Haven in 2017 and the Australian Open and San Jose in 2018. 3 Since Doha was introduced to the tour in 2001 only three players have been crowned multiple champions here: Anastasia Myskina (2003-04), Maria Sharapova (2005 and 2008) and Victoria Azarenka (2012-13). 5 ONE WEEK ON Elise Mertens’ five previous WTA finals have been at What a difference a week makes in tennis. Last week- International-level tourna- end, Elise Mertens failed to win a set in singles rubbers ments at Hobart (twice), against Alize Cornet and then Caroline Garcia as Belgium Lugano, Istanbul and slumped to a 3-1 Fed Cup defeat to France on home soil Rabat. in Liège. Fast-forward seven days and she has doubled her win DOUBLES UPDATE tally for the season and is on the cusp of her biggest title. No.4 seeds Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Demi Schuurs ended the run of alternate pairing Ons Jabeur and Alison Riske on Friday, triumphing 6-2 7-5 to reach the final in ON THIS DAY their first tournament as a team. On February 16, 1926, Suzanne Lenglen and Helen On the other side of the draw 2016 champions Chan Wills met in a celebrated encounter billed as the match of Hao-Ching and Latisha Chan reached their second final the century, in Cannes, France. It would be the only time here with a 6-4 7-6(2) victory over Veronika Kudermetova the two legends faced off in their storied careers, with and Jelena Ostapenko. Lenglen running out a 6-3 8-6 winner. SIMONA ELISE HALEP VS MERTENS DOHA DOHA • Former champion Halep is playing Qatar Total Open • Making second appearance at Qatar Total Open, for the sixth time. Reached the SF here last year having reached 2r on debut in 2018 (l. Cirstea) before granting Muguruza a walkover due to a foot • Broke serve four times to defeat Siniakova in 1r injury • In 2r, defeated lucky loser Kr.Pliskova (replaced sis- • Defeated three Top 10 players to win the title here in ter Ka.Pliskova who withdrew w/viral illness) 2014 (d. No.7 Errani in QF, No.4 A.Radwanska in SF • Broke serve four times to beat No.8 Bertens in QF and No.9 Kerber in F). One of two former champions • Followed this with another upset in SF, this time over to begin the draw along with Suarez Navarro (2016) No.6 Kerber; now owns five Top 10 wins, having • Bidding to become the fourth two-time champion in previously defeated No.10 Cibulkova at 2017 Beijing, Doha following Myskina (2003-04), Sharapova (2005, No.4 Svitolina at 2018 Australian Open and No.3 2008) and Azarenka (2012-13) Stephens at 2018 Cincinnati • Following 1r bye, defeated Tsurenko in 2r on • Run this week has doubled her match wins for the Wednesday to reach first QF of the season season to eight. By contrast, in 2018 reached this • Won 63% of her return games against Tsurenko. The total during Australian Open Romanian owns a 143-1 record when winning 60% • Through to first final since Rabat last May (d. Toml- of her return games in a match (lone loss to Suarez janovic in F). Owns 4-1 record in finals, winning three Navarro at 2015 Rome SF) in 2018 (Hobart, Lugano and Rabat) • Defeated No.16 Goerges in the QF on Thursday to • Six finals in Doha's history have gone to three sets, score her second Top 20 win of the season (also including two of the past three No.5 Ka.Pliskova in last weekend’s Fed Cup World • Currently ranked No.21. Last year's champion Kvito- Group tie) va was also ranked No.21 heading into the tourna- • Recovered from 4-1 down in final set to beat No.7 ment Svitolina in SF • Will rise to No.18 as runner-up and No.16 with title • This was her 14th victory in Doha, moving her into • Has won 78.6% of her service games across her four joint-fourth place (level with Azarenka) on the list matches (season average 69.6%). Only Goerges for most match wins here after Wozniacki (19 wins), (82.9%) has won a higher percentage, while Halep's A.Radwanska (17), Kuznetsova (16) percentage is 74.3% (season average 76%) • Faces Mertens today in 34th career final. Twice beat • Sole Belgian represented in Doha this week (main the Belgian comfortably during last year's clay court draw, qualifying and doubles) season, including en route to Roland Garros title • Appearing in first final since R-Up finish at 2018 Cin- cinnati (l. Bertens in F) and aiming for first title since SEASON the week before at Montreal (d. Stephens in F) • Would secure her 200th career main draw win by • Lost both singles rubbers during Belgium’s 3-1 home lifting the title this week defeat to France in Liege (l. Cornet and Garcia) • Made 3r at Australian Open (l. Keys) • Began season by falling 1r at Brisbane (l. Bertens) SEASON and reaching QF at Sydney (l. Barty) • Defeated Siniakova and Ka.Pliskova to help Roma- nia to a 3-2 victory over Czech Republic in the Fed CAREER MILESTONES Cup first round at the weekend and reach the SF for the first time. Was the first time Czech Republic had • Won three titles in 2018 (Hobart, Rabat and Lugano), been defeated at home in 10 years one of six players on tour with three or more titles to • Lost to S.Williams in R16 at Australian Open their name - also Kvitova (5), Svitolina (4), Bertens • Fell to Barty in 2r at Sydney (after 1r bye) (3), Halep (3) and Wozniacki (3) • Posted 46 main draw match wins in 2018 – only Ka.Pliskova (49) and Kvitova (47), registered more. CAREER MILESTONES By contrast, prior to last season owned only 36 wins at this level across entire career • In doubles in 2018, won four titles and reached QF at • Ended 2018 season as World No.1 for the second WTA Finals (w/Schuurs) time in her career, with season highlighted by maiden • Finished 2017 season at No.35, up from No.120 in Grand Slam title at Roland Garros (d. Stephens in F) 2016 – first Top 50 and Top 100 year-end finish SIMONA ELISE HALEP VS MERTENS CAREER CONT. CAREER CONT. • Also won titles last year at Shenzhen (d. Siniakova • 2017 season highlighted by first career singles title at in F) and Montréal (d. Stephens in F) and was R-Up Hobart (as a qualifier, d.
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