WTA 1000
The schedule for Elise Mertens includes events in the WTA 1000, Grand Slams & WTA 500. In the last 12 months, Elise Mertens has participated in 19 events listed on Koobit. You can find the schedule of upcoming events below.
Elise Mertens is a Belgian tennis player, and an accomplished player in both singles and doubles.
Mertens was born in Leuven, Belgium, in 1995, and by 20 was training at the Kim Clijsters Academy, founded by her fellow Belgian.
Mertens first WTA-level singles title came in 2017, in Hobart, Australia, and she added to that tally 3 times in 2018. The 2018 season also saw Mertens pick up 2 doubles titles. Elise Mertens has reached the fourth round or further in all Grand Slam singles draws, and has won all 3 of the 4 Grand Slam women's doubles draws, the exception being Roland-Garros.
Mertens is more than able on the baseline, helped by her good return, lengthy groundstrokes, and strong backhand. Like most doubles players, Mertens is also highly competent at the net, and has an impressive ability to cover every inch of the court.
Crowd control and updates on changes were great. Amazing support for people with mobility issues. Food esp coffee was poor. Too many players last minutes cancellation and even one of the 2 semi finals was cancelled. But that's on WTA, not SG open. Overall quality felt more of a WTA250 than a WTA500. Look forward to better organisation next year.
Between sessions, we had to leave the hall and we understood. Making everyone stand in the queue for 1.5 hours to re-enter was unacceptable especially with many seniors around. Flexibility and making some exceptions should be considered.
Brilliant and affordable venue.
This is our second visit to the tournament (2023/2026) and again we had a wonderful visit:
- Parking easy to find and shuttle service was quick and easy - very little waiting
- Volunteers plentiful, cheerful and helpful. Again, very little entry waiting, helpful finding seats
- Plenty of food options, but VERY expensive at Verde - $73 lunch for two - wrap, salad, cookie, 1 drink
- Appreciate the bottle filling option at the water fountains
- Phone app great - easy
- Weather perfect - glad to know you're on good terms with Mother Nature
- Like the post-match interviewer - does a great job of getting personality out of the contestants
Recommendations:
- In the Big Tent - would love to see better use of all four sides of the video cylinder - often only 1 or 2 screens actually showing matches. Would be very helpful if the screens could be elevated as much as possible for better visibility
- Wishing there were a few more opportunities to "mix" with the players, but not quite sure how to make that happen that would satisfy them. Enjoyed the after-match interviews buy TCLive, but the players have their backs to the crowd . . .
- Wish there was a way to expand the seating on Court 3 - doubles matches were slammed full on Tuesday - not sure how that worked out the rest of the
One silly question:
- Was there ANY plan or system for installing the various colored seats in the stadium - amazing how completely random the color scheme was - spent dead time pondering . . .
Great experience again. Wish there were more shaded seats . . .
It was great! Highly recommend the Club tickets. All the staff were friendly and helpful.
