Angelique Kerber vs Elise Mertens Wimbledon 2022 Preview

The underside half of the ladies’s draw is starting to disintegrate, leaving lots of these nonetheless competing hopeful of a deep run right here. Whereas 2018 champion Angelique Kerber was not among the many prime favourites originally, the opportunity of a deep run will not be off the desk. She’s going to play Elise Mertens, who has struggled to date on this event.

Mertens can positively be given credit score for battling by her first two matches however might want to up her degree from this stage onwards if she desires to outperform her seeding. She wanted three hours throughout two days and needed to save two match factors towards Panna Udvardy earlier than ultimately defeating the Hungarian 3-6 7-6 7-5.

In the meantime, Kerber has appeared untroubled by two matches and definitely has the grass sport nonetheless to go far on this event. Final yr’s semi finalist has dropped serve simply twice throughout two matches and appeared spectacular specifically towards Magda Linette in spherical two. To show Kerber’s grass pedigree, she is just outdone in grass court docket wins by Serena and Venus Williams amongst lively gamers.

Kerber might path the face to face 0-1 however this appears like an ideal alternative for the German to degree issues up towards an opponent who’s method beneath her standard requirements. Mertens made it eighteen slams in a row the place she has made the third spherical or higher however her failure to beat the higher gamers has all the time been a problem, with this trying prone to be no completely different this time.

Prediction – Angelique Kerber in straight units