Belinda Bencic and Anastasia Zakharova will play each other in the 2nd round of the China Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Saturday at 3:30 pm on Court 2. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis 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 -> 1.25
Anastasia Zakharova -> 3.9
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Prediction and head to head Belinda Bencic vs. Anastasia Zakharova
There is no head to head record between Belinda Bencic and Anastasia Zakharova since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Belinda Bencic
27 - 12win/loss
12
4
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. 12, Bencic will start her run in Beijing after she played her last match at the New York where she lost 4-6 7-5 6-3 to Putintseva in the 1st round on the 1st of September.
The Swiss has an aggregate 27-12 win-loss record in 2026, 15-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the current season 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, The Swiss has an overall 462-230 record. She has a positive 234-117 record on hard.
Previously in Beijing
Previously, her best result was reaching the 4th round in 2025. See her history.
Anastasia Zakharova
34 - 27win/loss
110
65
WLLLWLLWWW | Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 34-27 | 26-16 | 4-7 | 1-1 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2025 | 36-33 | 19-21 | 7-7 | 3-2 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 38-22 | 26-10 | 3-6 | 8-4 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 49-24 | 41-17 | 2-2 | 6-3 | 0-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-22 | 26-8 | 3-10 | 10-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 110, Zakharova got to the 2nd round after beating Yushan Shao 6-0 6-2.
In the 1st round, Anastasia had a good straight sets win against Shao (6-0 6-2). During the match Zakharova scored 59 points vs Shao’s 30. Zakharova was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Talking about serving, Zakharova wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Anastasia Zakharova was pretty effective on serve to win 77% (24/31) of her 1st serve and 57% (8/14) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. The Russian broke Shao 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).
The Russian’s best result of the year was getting to the semifinal in the W100 Landisville.
Anastasia has a composed 34-27 win-loss record in 2026, 26-16 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Beijing
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2025. See her history.
Head 2 Head
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- Polina KudermetovaKudermetova – Clara TausonTauson (6-4 4-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Diana ShnaiderShnaider – Janice TjenTjen (6-0 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sinja KrausKraus – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (4-1 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Linda FruhvirtovaFruhvirtova (6-2 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daria SnigurSnigur – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (3-6 7-65 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Maja ChwalinskaChwalinska (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Linda NoskovaNoskova – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Taylah PrestonPreston – Diane ParryParry (7-64 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Viktorija GolubicGolubic – Peyton StearnsStearns (6-4 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Yue YuanYuan (3-6 6-0 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Katie BoulterBoulter (7-63 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
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