Belinda Bencic and Jessica Pegula will play each other in the 1st round of the Olympics for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Saturday at 3:00 pm on Court 1. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Jessica Pegula who should win in 3 sets.
Jessica Pegula -> 1.76
Belinda Bencic -> 2.11
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Prediction and head to head Belinda Bencic vs. Jessica Pegula
This will be the 2nd time that Belinda Bencic and Jessica Pegula face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Bencic (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Bencic won 6-2 7-6(3) in the 1st round in Hertogenbosch back in 2015.
Belinda Bencic
Ranked no. 12, Belinda will start her run in Olympics after she played her last match at the London where she lost 6-3 6-3 to Juvan in the 1st round on the 30th of June.
Bencic has an overall 17-14 win-loss record in 2021, 7-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
The Swiss’s best result of the year was getting to the final in Adelaide and Berlin.
Talking about her overall career, Belinda has an overall 310-163 record. She has a positive 139-78 record on hard.
Previously in Olympics
Belinda has never competed in this tournament before.
Jessica Pegula
Ranked no. 27, Pegula will start her run in Tokyo after she played her last match at the London where she lost 6-4 3-6 6-3 to Samsonova in the 2nd round on the 30th of June.
The American has an aggregate 27-13 win-loss record in 2021, 17-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Pegula’s best result of the current year was reaching the semifinal in Doha.
In terms of her career, The American has an overall 282-186 record. She has a positive 138-85 record on hard.
Tennis Scores in Tokyo
- Alexey VatutinVatutin – Jeremy JahnJahn (6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Prajnesh GunneswaranGunneswaran – Andrey GolubevGolubev (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dmitry PopkoPopko – Yuuya KibiKibi (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Denis IstominIstomin – Robin StanekStanek (6-0 6-73 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Daniel MasurMasur – Djurabeck KarimovKarimov (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Alexander BublikBublik – Sergey BetovBetov (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sanjar FayzievFayziev – Sasi Kumar MukundKumar Mukund (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Soon-Woo KwonKwon – Denis YevseyevYevseyev (6-4 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka – Ti ChenChen (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Ashleigh BartyBarty – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Fiona FerroFerro – Anastasija SevastovaSevastova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anna-Lena FriedsamFriedsam – Heather WatsonWatson (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Sara ErraniErrani – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (2-4) – H2H and prediction
- Belinda BencicBencic – Jessica PegulaPegula (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Misaki DoiDoi – Renata ZarazuaZarazua (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zarina DiyasDiyas – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Magda LinetteLinette (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Caroline GarciaGarcia – Donna VekicVekic (4-4) – H2H and prediction
- Mayar SherifSherif – Rebecca PetersonPeterson (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Samantha StosurStosur – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ivana JorovicJorovic – Alison Van UytvanckVan Uytvanck (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronica Cepede RoygCepede Royg – Qiang WangWang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Alize CornetCornet (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Carla Suarez NavarroSuarez Navarro – Ons JabeurJabeur (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Elena VesninaVesnina (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Jennifer BradyBrady (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (5-4) – H2H and prediction
- Nina StojanovicStojanovic – Nao HibinoHibino (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Yaroslava ShvedovaShvedova – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Laura SiegemundSiegemund – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Mona BarthelBarthel (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Kristina MladenovicMladenovic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Elise MertensMertens (1-1) – H2H and prediction
- Kiki BertensBertens – Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Mihaela BuzarnescuBuzarnescu – Alison RiskeRiske (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano – Viktorija GolubicGolubic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Saisai ZhengZheng – Naomi OsakaOsaka (1-2) – H2H and prediction