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World number one Tennis Player Simona Halep cruised past Belgium’s Tennis star Elise Mertens into the third round of the ongoing Madrid Open.
Halep won the first eight games of the match and hit 23 winners as she set up a meeting with Czech Kristyna Pliskova.
Simona Halep won 6-0 6-3 in 71 minutes to end Mertens’ 13-match winning run. Meanwhile, World Number 10 Petra Kvitova won her seventh consecutive match with a 6-3 7-6 (10-8) victory over Puerto Rico’s Monica Puig
