Aryna Sabalenka bests Belinda Bencic 7-5 6-2 in the 4th round in Melbourne on Monday. Sabalenka will play Donna Vekic in the quarter. The match lasted 1 hour and 27 minutes. This will be her best achievement in this competition. In the past, the best she could do in the past was reaching the 4th round in 2021 and 2022. Here you can see her history at this event.
Aryna added to her prize money $ 217,000 after winning this match. She has won already $ 555,250 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Belarussian will add $ 369,750 to her earnings to get in total $ 925,000 in total.
Highlights Aryna Sabalenka vs. Belinda Bencic Australian Open – Melbourne
Sabalenka’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
1h:27
At the end of the match, Sabalenka scored 64 points vs. the Swiss’s 47.
Sabalenka
Sabalenka served pretty well to win 78% of the points (25/32) behind her first serve, and she won 64% points (14/22) on her second serve. Sabalenka was pretty good at converting 80% of the break points that she conquered (4/5).
Bencic
On the other side, The Swiss was great in converting the only break point that she converted. However, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Sabalenka and Bencic is 2-1 for Aryna.
Draw and next match H2H: Aryna Sabalenka vs. Donna Vekic – stats
Sabalenka will face Vekic in the quarter.
This will be the 7th time that Aryna Sabalenka and Donna Vekic fight against each other. The head to head is 5-1 for Vekic (see full H2H stats), 3-1 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Vekic won 6-4 6-75 6-1 in the quarter in San Diego back in 2022.
Live score progression and stats
The Belarussian clinched the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 3rd (1-2) game, The Belarussian broke back in the 8th (4-4) and in the 12th game to win the set 7-5.
They played 65 points. Sabalenka conquered the set after winning 7 points more than the Swiss (36-29). Aryna conceded 10 points on serve (23-10). Regarding the other side of the net, the Swiss conceded 13 points on serve (19-13).
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Sabalenka conquered in the 4th game (3-1) just before finally winning the set (5-2).
They played 46 points. Aryna was the one to win the set after conquering 12 more points than Belinda (29-17). Sabalenka was extremely solid on serve to concede just 4 points (17-4). on the other side of the net, Belinda conceded 12 points on serve (13-12).
Tennis Scores at the Australian Open
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-0 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Belinda BencicBencic (7-5 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Magda LinetteLinette – Caroline GarciaGarcia (7-63 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Donna VekicVekic – Linda FruhvirtovaFruhvirtova (6-2 1-6 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Cori GauffGauff (7-5 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Lin ZhuZhu (4-6 6-1 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (7-5 6-2) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-2) – H2H details and stats
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (2-2) – H2H details and stats
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Magda LinetteLinette (4-1) – H2H details and stats
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Donna VekicVekic (1-4) – H2H details and stats
