Belinda Bencic and Sloane Stephens will face off in the 2nd round of the National Bank Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 12:30 pm on COURT 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Belinda Bencic who should win in 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Belinda Bencic is the pick to win this match.
Belinda Bencic -> 1.142
Sloane Stephens -> 5.6
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Prediction and head to head Belinda Bencic vs. Sloane Stephens
This will be the 3rd time that Belinda Bencic and Sloane Stephens square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Stephens (see full H2H stats), 2-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Stephens won 6-4 6-4 in the 2nd round in Guadalajara back in 2022.
Belinda Bencic
24 - 10win/loss
12
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LLWWWLWWWL | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 27-12 | 15-6 | 8-4 | 1-1 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 39-17 | 31-12 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-13 | 24-10 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-18 | 13-9 | 13-4 | 10-2 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 14, Belinda will start her run in Montreal after she played her last match at the London where she lost 4-6 6-3 6-4 to Gauff in the 4th round on the 5th of July.
Bencic has a compiled 24-10 win-loss record in 2026, 12-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current year was conquering the title in Australia where she overcame Iga Swiatek in the final 3-6 6-0 6-3.
Talking about her overall career, Belinda has an overall 459-228 record. She has a positive 231-115 record on hard.
Previously in Montreal
Previously, she won this tournament once in 2015. See her history.
Sloane Stephens
13 - 14win/loss
169
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WWLWLLWWLW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 18-18 | 13-11 | 5-7 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 0-6 | 0-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 19-22 | 8-13 | 9-6 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 25-20 | 11-14 | 13-5 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 18-17 | 13-9 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 286, Sloane reached the 2nd round after defeating Harriet Dart 3-6 6-0 6-2 and Solana Sierra 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, The American had a good straight sets win against Sierra (6-3 6-4). During the match Stephens scored 58 points vs Sierra’s 48. Stephens was exceptionally aggressive to blast 23 winners.
Talking about serving, Stephens was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 4 double faults. Sloane Stephens lost the serve twice and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Stephens put 68% of her first serves in, winning 68% (23/34) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (7/16) on the 2nd serve. The American broke Sierra 5 times after converting 63% of her break points (5/8).
Sloane has an overall 13-14 win-loss record in 2026, 8-7 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Montreal
Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2018. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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- Talia GibsonGibson – Maja ChwalinskaChwalinska (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Rebecca SramkovaSramkova (6-2 4-6 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Lanlana TararudeeTararudee (w/o) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Donna VekicVekic (5-7 6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
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- Maja ChwalinskaChwalinska – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Clara TausonTauson – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Mccartney KesslerKessler (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Alycia ParksParks – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
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- Ann LiLi – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Elena RybakinaRybakina (2-3) – H2H and prediction
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