Belinda Bencic and Svetlana Kuznetsova will square off in the 2nd round of the St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy for the 4th time of their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 6:30 pm on SIBUR ARENA. Here the head to head stats and the relative prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Belinda Bencic who should win in 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Belinda Bencic is the pick to win this match.
Belinda Bencic -> 1.57
Svetlana Kuznetsova -> 2.25
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Belinda Bencic
Ranked no. 5 (career high), Belinda will start her run in St. Petersburg after she played her last match in 1 where she lost 6-2 7-6(3) to in the Rubber 3 the 8th of February.
Belinda has a 5-4 win-loss record in 2020, 1-1 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Talking about her overall career, Bencic has an overall 206-126 record. She has positive 22-16 record on indoor hard courts.
Last year in St. Petersburg
The Swiss lost in the qualifications 6-4 6-3 to Veronika Kudermetova.
Svetlana Kuznetsova
Ranked no. 49, Kuznetsova got to the 2nd round after defeating Jennifer Brady 6-3 6-1.
In the 1st round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Brady (6-3 6-1). During the match Kuznetsova scored 71 points vs Brady’s 54. Kuznetsova was extremely aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Kuznetsova scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 4 double faults. Svetlana Kuznetsova lost the serve once and she saved 11 break points. Furthermore, Kuznetsova put 63% of her first serves in, winning 74% (32/43) of the points behind her 1st serve and 36% (9/25) on the 2nd serve. The Russian broke Brady 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).
Kuznetsova has a fantastic win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 71% of her matches (102-41). 1-0 on indoor hard courts in 2020. In connection with her performance on the same surface of this competition, Kuznetsova has a 239-150 record in the last 10 years on indoor hard courts.
The Russian has a 2-2 win-loss record in 2020, 1-0 on indoor hard courts (See FULL STATS).
Last year in St. Petersburg
Kuznetsova didn’t compete in St. Petersburg in 2019.
Head 2 Head
Tennis Scores in St. Petersburg
- Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (7-62 6-3) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
- Belinda BencicBencic – Svetlana KuznetsovaKuznetsova (2-1) – See H2H details
- Alize CornetCornet – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-2) – See H2H details
- Johanna KontaKonta – Oceane DodinDodin (1-0) – See H2H details
- Fiona FerroFerro – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – See H2H details
- Donna VekicVekic – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (1-0) – See H2H details
- Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck – Petra KvitovaKvitova (0-0) – See H2H details
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Kiki BertensBertens (0-0) – See H2H details