Belinda Bencic and Storm Sanders will face off in the quarter of the Adelaide International for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Thursday at 6:30 pm on Memorial Drive Centre Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and the 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 -> 1.34
Storm Sanders -> 3.52
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Prediction and head to head Belinda Bencic vs. Storm Sanders
There is no head to head record between Belinda Bencic and Storm Sanders since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.
Belinda Bencic
Ranked no. 12, Belinda got to the quarter after defeating Misaki Doi 6-1 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Belinda had a good straight sets win against Doi (6-1 6-3). During the match Bencic scored 65 points vs Doi’s 41. The Swiss was very aggressive to blast 24 winners.
Regarding the service games, Bencic fired 2 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Belinda Bencic lost the serve twice and she saved 10 break points. Furthermore, Bencic put 56% of her first serves in, winning 69% (24/35) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (12/27) on the 2nd serve. Belinda broke Doi 6 times after converting 86% of her break points (6/7).
Bencic has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 66% of her matches (300-155). 3-2 on hard in 2021. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this event, Bencic has a 138-76 match record in the last years on hard.
The Swiss has a 3-2 win-loss record in 2021, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Adelaide
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2020. See her history.
Storm Sanders
Ranked no. 292, the Australian reached the quarter after beating Bernarda Pera 6-2 4-6 6-3, Caty McNally 6-2 6-3, Ajla Tomljanovic 6-1 6-2 and Yulia Putintseva 6-4 5-7 6-1.
In the 2nd round, Storm defeated Putintseva (6-4 5-7 6-1). During the match Sanders scored 91 points vs Putintseva’s 85. Sanders was exceptionally aggressive to blast 41 winners.
Talking about serving, Sanders scored 2 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Storm Sanders lost the serve twice and she saved 8 break points. Furthermore, Sanders put 61% of her first serves in, winning 66% (41/62) of the points behind her 1st serve and 59% (23/39) on the 2nd serve. Sanders broke Putintseva 4 times after converting 44% of her break points (4/9).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Storm has conceded 2 set in the tournament to win 55% of the points she played.
Storm has a 4-1 win-loss record in 2021, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Adelaide
Storm has never competed in this tournament before.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Bencic | Sanders |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 4 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 10 |
| Tot Games | 16 | 88 |
| Pts | 65-41 | 321-262 |
| Total Points | 106 | 583 |
| Winners | 24 | 129 |
| %Winners | 37% | 40% |
Bencic played 1 match while Sanders competed in 4 matches. Sanders started her run from the qualifications while Bencic had a direct access to the main draw. At the moment, Storm Sanders conceded 2 sets while Belinda Bencic hasn’t surrendered a set so far. Bencic has played 8 set(s) less than Sanders (2 vs 10). Therefore, Bencic played 72 games less than Sanders. The Swiss scored 24 winners (37% of the total points). On the other side, Sanders managed to score 129 winners (40%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Bencic | Sanders |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 2 | 6 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 1.5 |
| 1st in | 35/62 | 198/303 |
| %1st in | 56% | 65% |
| 1st pts | 24/35 | 129/198 |
| %1st pts | 69% | 65% |
| 2nd pts | 12/27 | 58/105 |
| %2nd pts | 44% | 55% |
Bencic scored 2 aces . Sanders bagged 6 aces (1.5 per match). Bencic won 69% points behind her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 44% of the points. On the other side, Sanders won 65% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 55% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Bencic | Sanders |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 21 |
| Converted | 6/7 | 21/46 |
| % Converted | 86% | 46% |
| Conceded | 12 | 30 |
| Saved | 10 | 21 |
| % Saved | 83% | 70% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 9 |
The Swiss broke her opponent 6 times with a 86% conversion rate. The Swiss conceded her serve twice and she saved 83% of the break points that she conceded. Storm broke her opponents 21 times with a 46% conversion rate. The Australian conceded her serve 9 times and she saved 70% of the break points that she conceded.
| Bencic | |||
| R2 Doi |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 16 | 16 | |
| pts | 65-41 | 65-41 | |
| Total points | 106 | 106 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 37% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 2 | 2 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 35/62 | 35/62 | |
| % 1st in | 56% | 56% | |
| 1st pts | 24/35 | 24/35 | |
| % 1st pts | 69% | 69% | |
| 2nd pts | 12/27 | 12/27 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 44% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 6 | 6 | |
| Converted | 6/7 | 6/7 | |
| Converted % | 86% | 86% | |
| Conceded | 12 | 12 | |
| Saved | 10/12 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 83% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 2 | |
| Sanders | ||||||
| Q1 Pera |
Q3 McNally |
R1 Tomljanovic |
R2 Putintseva |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 4-6 6-3 | 6-2 6-3 | 6-1 6-2 | 6-4 5-7 6-1 | ||
| Tot Set | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | |
| Tot Games | 27 | 17 | 15 | 29 | 88 | |
| pts | 108-96 | 63-49 | 59-32 | 91-85 | 321-262 | |
| Total points | 204 | 112 | 91 | 176 | 583 | |
| Winners | 40 | 27 | 21 | 41 | 129 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 43% | 36% | 45% | 40% | |
| SERVE | ||||||
| Aces | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | |
| 1st in | 71/100 | 41/61 | 24/41 | 62/101 | 198/303 | |
| % 1st in | 71% | 67% | 59% | 61% | 65% | |
| 1st pts | 40/71 | 27/41 | 21/24 | 41/62 | 129/198 | |
| % 1st pts | 56% | 66% | 88% | 66% | 65% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/29 | 9/20 | 11/17 | 23/39 | 58/105 | |
| % 2nd pts | 52% | 45% | 65% | 59% | 55% | |
| Breaks | ||||||
| Won | 8 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 21 | |
| Converted | 8/20 | 5/8 | 4/9 | 4/9 | 21/46 | |
| Converted % | 40% | 63% | 44% | 44% | 46% | |
| Conceded | 15 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 30 | |
| Saved | 10/15 | 3/5 | 0/0 | 8/10 | 21 | |
| Saved % | 67% | 60% | – | 80% | 207% | |
| Times Broken | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | |
Head 2 Head
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