BEIJING. Belinda Bencic downs Hsieh in the 1st round of the China Open

Belinda Bencic tops Su-Wei Hsieh 7-5 6-2 in the 1^st round in Beijing on Saturday. Bencic will face Venus Williams in the 2^nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Bencic started off on the right foot in the set after breaking Hsieh in the 1^st game (1-0). Nonetheless, there was more to do for Belinda to win the set because the Chinese found the way to break back in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 6^th (2-4), in the 8^th (4-4) and in the 10^th (5-5) game. The Swiss maintained her cool to break the Chinese in the 3^rd (2-1), in the 5^th (4-1), in the 9^th (5-4) and in the 11^th (6-5) game before conquering the set (7-5).

Belinda failed to serve out the set when leading 5-4 to be broken at 30.

2^nd set.

Bencic conquered a leading position at the beginning of the set after breaking Hsieh in the 1^st game (1-0). The Swiss managed to strengthen her lead after breaking Su-Wei in the 5^th (4-1) game before winning the set (6-2).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Bencic scored 71 points vs. Su-Wei’s 50 points.

The Swiss didn’t lose the concentration in converting 64% of the break points that she procured (7/11). On the other side, Su-Wei was struggling in converting her break points because she converted only 44% of her break points (4/9). That was one of the key issues for her demise.

After this encounter, the head to head between Bencic and Hsieh is 2-0 for Belinda.

Next Match: Belinda Bencic vs. Venus Williams – stats

Bencic will compete against Williams in the 2^nd round.

This will be the 6^th time that Belinda Bencic and Venus Williams fight against each other. The head to head is 4-1 for Williams (see full H2H stats), 2-1 on hard.

The last time that they fought against each other, Bencic won 6-3 7-5 in the 1^st round in Melbourne back in 2018.

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• Simona HalepHalep – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Christina MchaleMchale – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (6-0 1-6 6-3) – See score progression
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Caroline GarciaGarcia (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
• Sloane StephensStephens – Magda LinetteLinette (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (6-7⁴ 6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Jessica PegulaPegula (6-3 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Yafan WangWang – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (6-1 6-2) – See score progression
• Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Anna BlinkovaBlinkova (6-0 6-1) – See score progression
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (7-6⁴ 6-3) – See score progression
• Venus WilliamsWilliams – Barbora StrycovaStrycova (6-3 4-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Sofia KeninKenin – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (6-0 2-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Monica PuigPuig (4-6 6-3 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Xiyu WangWang (6-2 6-2) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Donna VekicVekic (3-6 6-1 7-6³) – See score progression
• Belinda BencicBencic – Su-Wei HsiehHsieh (7-5 6-2) – See score progression
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Shuai PengPeng (2-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Samantha Stosur/Shuai ZhangStosur/Shuai Zhang – Alicja Rosolska/Storm SandersRosolska/Storm Sanders (4-6 6-3 10-8) – See score progression
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (7-5 3-6 7-5) – See score progression
• Polona HercogHercog – Julia GoergesGoerges (6-7⁴ 7-6⁵ 6-4) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-1) – See H2H details
• Angelique KerberKerber – Shuai ZhangZhang (1-1) – See H2H details
• Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (0-0) – See H2H details
• Elise MertensMertens – Petra MarticMartic (1-0) – See H2H details
• Jennifer BradyBrady – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (0-0) – See H2H details
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Madison KeysKeys (0-0) – See H2H details
• Qiang WangWang – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Bernarda PeraPera (0-0) – See H2H details
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Lauren DavisDavis (1-0) – See H2H details
• Ashleigh BartyBarty – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (1-0) – See H2H details
• Saisai ZhengZheng – Sloane StephensStephens (0-2) – See H2H details
• Belinda BencicBencic – Venus WilliamsWilliams (1-4) – See H2H details
• Kristina MladenovicMladenovic – Petra KvitovaKvitova (1-8) – See H2H details
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Yafan WangWang (0-1) – See H2H details
• Dayana YastremskaYastremska – Kiki BertensBertens (0-0) – See H2H details
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Naomi OsakaOsaka (1-0) – See H2H details
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – See H2H details
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-0) – See H2H details