Belinda Bencic and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova will square off in the quarter of the Olympics for the 7th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on Centre Court. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova who should win in 3 sets.

As per the initial odds, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova is the pick to win this match.
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova -> 1.67
Belinda Bencic -> 2.31

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Prediction and head to head Belinda Bencic vs. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

This will be the 7th time that Belinda Bencic and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova fight against each other. The head to head is 4-2 for Bencic (see full H2H stats), but Pavlyuchenkova leads 2-0 on hard.

The last time that they played, Pavlyuchenkova won 1-6 6-1 6-1 in the 1st round in Dubai back in 2020.

Highlights Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs Belinda Bencic – Dubai 18-February-2020

Belinda Bencic

Ranked no. 12, Belinda reached the quarter after beating Jessica Pegula 6-3 6-3, Misaki Doi 6-2 6-4 and Barbora Krejcikova 1-6 6-2 6-3.

In the 3rd round against Krejcikova, Bencic recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (1-6 6-2 6-3). During the match, Bencic scored 78 points vs Krejcikova’s 72. The Swiss was exceptionally aggressive to blast 31 winners.

Regarding the service games, Bencic made 2 aces and she committed only 7 double faults. Overall, Belinda Bencic was pretty efficient on serve to win 72% (31/43) of her 1st serve and 52% (13/25) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve 4 times. The Swiss broke Krejcikova 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Belinda started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in this competition to win 56% of the points she played.

Bencic has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 66% of her matches (313-163). 10-6 on hard in 2021. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Bencic has a compiled 142-78 match record in the last years on hard.

Bencic’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in Adelaide and Berlin.

The Swiss has a compiled 20-14 win-loss record in 2021, 10-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Olympics

Bencic has never competed in this tournament before.

Tokyo
Bencic's Record

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

Ranked no. 18, the Russian reached the quarter after defeating Sara Errani 6-0 6-1, Anna-Lena Friedsam 6-1 6-1 and Sara Sorribes Tormo 6-1 6-3.

In the 3rd round, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Sorribes Tormo (6-1 6-3). During the match Pavlyuchenkova scored 67 points vs Sorribes Tormo’s 50. Pavlyuchenkova was extremely aggressive to blast 25 winners.

Talking about serving, Pavlyuchenkova wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova lost the serve once and she saved 1 break points. Furthermore, Pavlyuchenkova put 71% of her first serves in, winning 83% (25/30) of the points behind her 1st serve and 44% (4/9) on the 2nd serve. Anastasia broke Sorribes Tormo 5 times after converting 29% of her break points (5/17).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Russian started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t conceded yet a set in this event to conquer 64% of the points she played.

Anastasia’s best result of the season was reaching the final at the French Open .

Pavlyuchenkova has an aggregate 20-12 win-loss record in 2021, 7-6 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tokyo
Pavlyuchenkova's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

B.Bencic
A.Pavlyuchenkova
4h:36
4h:36
Time on court​
3h:36
3h:36
1h:53
1h:53
Last match​
1h:32
1h:32
3
3
Match played
3
3
60
60
Games Played​
43
43
7
7
Set played​​
6
6
214
214
Total points​
180
180
71.3
71.3
Avg point​
60
60
86
86
Winners
67
67
28.7
28.7
Avg Winners​
22.3
22.3
40%
40%
Ratio winners
37%
37%
-- Serve --
5
5
Aces
6
6
1.7
1.7
Avg Aces
2
2
12
12
Double Faults
8
8
4
4
Avg Double Faults
2.7
2.7
86/112
86/112
1st won total​
67/84
67/84
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77%
77%
1st won %
!
80%
80%
34/61
34/61
2nd won total​
17/33
17/33
56%
56%
2nd won %
52%
52%
-- Break Points --
13/30
13/30
BP won
18/37
18/37
4.3/10
4.3/10
Avg BP won
6/12.3
6/12.3
43%
43%
Won
49%
49%
13
13
Conceded
8
8
4.3
4.3
Avg Conceded
2.7
2.7
6
6
Broken
3
3
2
2
Avg Broken
1
1
7
7
Saved
5
5
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Bencic Pavlyuchenkova
Match played 3 3
Tot Set 7 6
Tot Games 60 43
Pts 214-171 180-100
Total Points 385 280
Winners 86 67
%Winners 40% 37%

Both Bencic and Pavlyuchenkova played 3 matches. At the moment, Belinda Bencic lost 1 set while Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova hasn’t conceded a set so far. Bencic has played 1 set more than Pavlyuchenkova (7 vs 6). Therefore, Bencic played 17 games more than Pavlyuchenkova. The Swiss scored 86 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Anastasia scored 67 winners (37%).

Serve Performance

Serve Bencic Pavlyuchenkova
Aces 5 6
Avg per match 1.7 2
1st in 112/185 84/125
%1st in 61% 67%
1st pts 86/112 67/84
%1st pts 77% 80%
2nd pts 34/61 17/33
%2nd pts 56% 52%

Bencic recorded 5 aces (1.7 per match). Pavlyuchenkova struck 6 aces (2 per match). Bencic won 77% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 56% of the points. On the other side, Pavlyuchenkova won 80% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 52% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Bencic Pavlyuchenkova
Won 13 18
Converted 13/30 18/37
% Converted 43% 49%
Conceded 13 8
Saved 7 5
% Saved 54% 63%
Times Broken 6 3

The Swiss broke her opponents 13 times with a 43% conversion rate. Bencic dropped her serve 6 times and she saved 54% of the break points that she conceded. Pavlyuchenkova broke her opponents 18 times with a 49% conversion rate. Pavlyuchenkova conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 63% of the break points that she conceded.

Bencic
R1
Pegula		 R2
Doi		 R3
Krejcikova		 Total
Score 6-3 6-3 6-2 6-4 1-6 6-2 6-3
Tot Set 2 2 3 7
Tot Games 18 18 24 60
pts 69-51 67-48 78-72 214-171
Total points 120 115 150 385
Winners 28 27 31 86
%Winners 41% 40% 40% 40%
SERVE
Aces 0 3 2 5
Double Faults 2 3 7 12
1st in 34/53 35/57 43/75 112/185
% 1st in 64% 61% 57% 61%
1st pts 28/34 27/35 31/43 86/112
% 1st pts 82% 77% 72% 77%
2nd pts 11/17 10/19 13/25 34/61
% 2nd pts 65% 53% 52% 56%
Breaks
Won 3 5 5 13
Converted 3/12 5/9 5/9 13/30
Converted % 25% 56% 56% 43%
Conceded 1 6 6 13
Saved 1/1 4/6 2/6 7
Saved % 100% 67% 33% 67%
Times Broken 0 2 4 6
Pavlyuchenkova
R1
Errani		 R2
Friedsam		 R3
Sorribes Tormo		 Total
Score 6-0 6-1 6-1 6-1 6-1 6-3
Tot Set 2 2 2 6
Tot Games 13 14 16 43
pts 60-30 53-20 67-50 180-100
Total points 90 73 117 280
Winners 21 21 25 67
%Winners 35% 40% 37% 37%
SERVE
Aces 3 3 0 6
Double Faults 3 2 3 8
1st in 28/44 26/39 30/42 84/125
% 1st in 64% 67% 71% 67%
1st pts 21/28 21/26 25/30 67/84
% 1st pts 75% 81% 83% 80%
2nd pts 6/13 7/11 4/9 17/33
% 2nd pts 46% 64% 44% 52%
Breaks
Won 7 6 5 18
Converted 7/12 6/8 5/17 18/37
Converted % 58% 75% 29% 49%
Conceded 3 3 2 8
Saved 2/3 2/3 1/2 5
Saved % 67% 67% 50% 61%
Times Broken 1 1 1 3

Tennis Scores in Tokyo

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