Belinda Bencic hustles Anna Schmiedlova 6-3 7-5 in the 1st round in Melbourne on Tuesday. Bencic will have to play Jelena Ostapenko in the 2nd round.

Score, report, and key facts

1st set.

Bencic had a strong start of this set after breaking Anna Schmiedlova in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Yet, there was more work to do for the Swiss to win the set as Anna Schmiedlova succeeded in breaking back in the 6th (2-4) game. The Swiss maintained her cool to break the Slovakian in the 9th (6-3) game.

An important stage of this contest was when Bencic won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to change the scoreline from 0-0 to 4-0.

2nd set.

Anna Schmiedlova had a strong start of this set after breaking Bencic in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Nevertheless, the Swiss refused to bow to come back to break Anna Schmiedlova 4 times in the 4th (1-3), in the 6th (3-3), in the 8th (4-4) gamein the 12th game before winning the set (7-5) after breaking his opponent in the last game.

Anna Schmiedlova capitulated the 4th game (1-3) when she was 40-0 up.

Statistics

At the end of the match, Bencic scored 80 points vs. the Slovakian’s 71 points.

Belinda didn’t lose the focus when converting 58% of the break points that she conquered (7/12). On the other side, Anna Schmiedlova was battling in converting her break points (only 27%4/15). That was one of the key issues for her loss.

After this match, the head to head between Bencic and Anna Schmiedlova is 2-1 for Belinda.

Highlights Belinda Bencic vs. Anna Schmiedlova Australian Open – Melbourne

Next Match H2H: Belinda Bencic vs. Jelena Ostapenko – stats

Bencic will compete against Ostapenko in the 2nd round.

This will be the 2nd time that Belinda Bencic and Jelena Ostapenko square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Ostapenko (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Ostapenko won 6-4 3-6 6-1 in the 2nd round in Indian Wells back in 2018.

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