Mertens: Continue to act as No.3 Pegula, and scored into Rome s top 16 PK Schneider

This is part of the original text translated from the official website of WTA. The original title is: Stats corner: Mertens maintains head-to-head dominance over Pegula "Core Data: Mertens defeats Pegula"

Meltens still has the advantage in competing with Pegula. WTA1000 Rome 2025 Women's Singles Round 3, Saturday's finale evening, Campo Central Stadium, Mertens vs. Pegula, Belgian girl won 7-5, 6-1, No. 3+ American rich girl Pegula, and reached the top 16.

Meltens is No. 25 in the tournament, which took only 1 hour and 24 minutes. He won the fourth victory against Pegula and handed over a super excellent report card for two players: leading Pegula 4-1.

Pegula only won one game from the 2025 Australian Open. However, in this game, Mertens took a perfect revenge and reached Rome's quarterfinals. Mertens' best results in Rome came from the 2020 quarterfinals.

This victory was like timely rain, which finally ended the long-term drought. Previously, she had 14 consecutive losses against the top 10. In fact, the last time she won the top 10 was Pegula, but that was 2023 Roland Garros in 2023.

In the whole game, Mertens got a breaking opportunity four times, and she fulfilled all of them perfectly. And she also scored 19 winning points, better than Pegula's 11.

Meltens' four wins are largely due to the powerful serve. In the 2025 season, she scored 131 Aces goals, second only to Towson's 163 + Case's 139.

However, Pegula still ranked second in the WTA with 28 wins, second only to the world No. 1 Sabalenka's 32 wins. But her current report card on European clay is 3-3. In the 16th round, Mertens will challenge No. 13 Schneider, and they compete for a top 8 seat. Another good choice for Mertens. The two players fought twice before, and Mertens won in straight sets in 2 sets, including the WTA 500 Stuttgart Indoor Clay Championship last month.

If Mertens wins, she will reach the quarterfinals of the WTA 1000 for the 7th time. Her best result in this level is to reach the top 4 twice: 2020 Cincinnati + 2021 Dubai.