Eva Lys reaches the quarter-finals at the WTA tournament in Monastir. The 22-year-old surprisingly beat the top seeded Belgian Elise Mertens
Tennis player Eva Lys has surprisingly reached the quarter-finals at the WTA tournament in Monastir. The 22-year-old defeated the top-seeded Belgian Elise Mertens 1:6, 6:2, 7:6 (7:4) at the Jasmin Open in Tunisia. In the next round, she will face the winner of the duel between the Belgian Greet Minnen and Zeynep Sönmez from Turkey.
Lys got off to the worst possible start, losing her first two service games and then failing to get back into the set. Mertens, number 32 in the world rankings and therefore 94 places higher than her opponent, used her third set point to break for the third time.
Mertens (28) was 2:0 up again in the second set, but Lys fought back against the former Australian Open semi-finalist (2018) and started a run of ten consecutive games won.
The tide turned again in the third set, Mertens came back from 0:4 down, but Lys held her nerve. After 2:36 hours, she converted her first match point
