Belinda Bencic aces Iga Swiatek 7-6(12) 6-3 in the 4th round in New York on Monday. Bencic is going to play against Emma Raducanu in the quarter. The match lasted 2 hours and 7 minutes. Her best achievement in this tournament was reaching the semifinal in 2019. Here you can see her history at this event.
Belinda added to her prize money $ 160,000 after conquering this match. She has won already $ 425,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Swiss will add $ 250,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 675,000 in total.
Highlights Belinda Bencic vs. Iga Swiatek U.S. Open – New York
Bencic’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Belinda scored 88 points vs. Iga’s 80.
Bencic
Belinda served extremely well to win 75% of the points (33/44) behind her first serve, and she won 53% points (20/38) on her second serve. Belinda won this match even if she was battling in converting her break points as she converted only 22% (2/9) of the procured opportunities.
Swiatek
On the other side, Swiatek was far from perfect in converting her break points (only 33% – 1/3). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this match, the head to head between Bencic and Swiatek is 1-1.
Draw and next match H2H: Belinda Bencic vs. Emma Raducanu – stats
Bencic will play Raducanu in the quarter.
There is no head to head record between Belinda Bencic and Emma Raducanu since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Bencic had a boost of confidence at the beginning of the set after breaking Iga Swiatek in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, that was not enough for Bencic to win the set because Iga found the way to break back in the 10th (5-5) game. Bencic kept her focus before winning the set at the tiebreak at 12.
Bencic lost a big opportunity to break Swiatek in the 5th game when she had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
Tiebreak
The Swiss won 8 minibreaks in the 8th (3-5), 9th (4-5), 13th (7-6), 20th (10-10), 21st (11-10), 24th (12-12), 25th (13-12) and 26th (14-12) point. On the other side, Swiatek won 5 minibreaks in the 6th (4-2), 14th (7-7), 19th (10-9), 22nd (11-11) and 23rd (12-11) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 2-4, 2-5, 3-5, 4-5, 5-5, 6-5, 6-6, 7-6, 7-7, 8-7, 8-8, 8-9, 9-9, 9-10, 10-10, 11-10, 11-11, 11-12, 12-12, 13-12, 14-12
Bencic converted 16% of her break points (1/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40 and 30-40), the 5th (3-1 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 6th game (4-2 30-40). Belinda saved 6 set points when she was 2-5, 3-5, 4-5, 8-9, 9-10 and 11-12 down. In addition on the other side, Swiatek converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had her opportunities in the 10th (4-5 30-40) and the 12th game (6-5 30-40).
They played 113 points. Bencic conquered the set after winning 5 more points than the Pole (59-54). Bencic conceded 16 points on serve (30-16). On the losing side, Swiatek conceded 29 points on serve (38-29).
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that Belinda conquered in the 4th game (3-1) before eventually winning the set (6-3).
The Swiss converted 33% of her break points (1/3). She had 3 break points opportunities in the 4th game (2-1 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, the Pole wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 3rd game (1-1 40-A).
They contested 55 points. The set was a huge battle since finally the Swiss won just 3 points more than Swiatek (29-26). Bencic dropped 12 points on serve (23-12). In addition, on the other side, Iga conceded 6 points on serve (14-6).
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