Elise Mertens is a Belgian professional tennis player. On November 17, 1995, a right-handed sportswoman was born in Leuven, the capital and largest city of the Flemish Brabant province in Belgium’s Flemish Region.
Guido Mertens, a church furniture manufacturer, is Elise Mertens’ father, and Liliane Barbe, a language and history teacher, is her mother. She also has an elder sister, Lauren, who is a KLM airline pilot.
Mertens began playing tennis with her sister Lauren when she was four years old. She participated on the junior tennis circuit from February 2009 until September 2013, according to ITF statistics.
In addition, the Belgian won the 2009 Luxembourg Outdoor Junior Open, the 2012 10th SFAX ITF Junior Tournament, and the 2013 ITF Junior Open Linz. On April 22, 2013, she achieved a singles career-high junior rating of World No.7.
Mertens made her WTA main draw debut as a qualifier in Hertogenbosch in 2016. She also won the singles championship in the 2017 Hobart International, the Ladies Open Lugano, the Morocco Open in 2018, the 2019 Doha Open, and the 2021 Gippsland Trophy.
She reached the semifinals of the Australian Open in 2018, the quarterfinals of the US Open in 2019 and 2020, and the Round of 16 of the French Open and Wimbledon in 2018. (2019).
Elise Mertens children: Does Elise Mertens have a child?
No, the tennis icon has no children but is dating currently. Mertens was seeing her boyfriend Robbe Ceyssens but they mutually decided to end that coach-player contract while keeping their romance intact.
