BEIJING. Tenacious Bencic survives Williams in the 2nd round

Belinda Bencic survives Venus Williams 3-6 6-3 7-5 in the 2^nd round in Beijing on Monday after conquering a huge battle. Bencic is going to play against Petra Kvitova or Kristina Mladenovic in the 3^rd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Bencic came out strong at the beginning of the set after breaking Williams in the 1^st game (1-0). Nevertheless, Williams succeeded in coming back to break Bencic in the 4^th (2-2) and in the 8^th (5-3) game before winning the set (6-3).

2^nd set.

Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the Swiss conquered in the 4^th game (3-1) before winning the set (6-3).

3^rd set.

The Swiss won the set after she broke Williams in the 5^th (3-2) and in the 11^th (6-5) game. Venus tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 8^th (4-4) game. Notwithstanding, Belinda stayed solid before winning the set 7-5.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Belinda scored 95 points vs. the American’s 93 points.

Bencic won this match even if she had some problems in converting her break points since she converted only 44% (4/9). On the other side, Venus wasn’t that great in converting her break points because she converted only 33% of her break points (3/9). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this match, the head to head between Bencic and Williams is 2-4 for Venus.

Highlights Belinda Bencic vs. Venus Williams China Open – Beijing

Next Match: Belinda Bencic vs. Petra Kvitova or Kristina Mladenovic – stats

Bencic will play either Petra Kvitova or Kristina Mladenovic in the 3^rd round. The head to head is 1-3 vs. Petra Kvitova and 1-3 vs. Kristina Mladenovic.

Tennis Scores in Beijing

• Belinda BencicBencic – Venus WilliamsWilliams (3-6 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Kiki BertensBertens – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (7-6⁵ 6-3) – See score progression
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Yafan WangWang (7-6⁵ 7-6¹) – See score progression
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Simona HalepHalep (6-2 6-3) – See score progression
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (6-2 6-1) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

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• Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova – Sofia KeninKenin (0-1) – See H2H details
• Angelique KerberKerber – Polona HercogHercog (3-2) – See H2H details
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• Jennifer BradyBrady – Madison KeysKeys (0-0) – See H2H details
• Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Alison RiskeRiske (0-1) – See H2H details
• Andrea PetkovicPetkovic – Naomi OsakaOsaka (1-0) – See H2H details
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka (0-0) – See H2H details
• Caroline WozniackiWozniacki – Christina MchaleMchale (4-2) – See H2H details