Belinda Bencic and Veronika Kudermetova will play each other in the quarter of the Libema Open for the 8th time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 11:00 am 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 Belinda Bencic who should win in 3 sets.
Belinda Bencic -> 1.61
Veronika Kudermetova -> 2.44
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Prediction and head to head Belinda Bencic vs. Veronika Kudermetova
This will be the 8th time that Belinda Bencic and Veronika Kudermetova face off. The head to head is 4-3 for Bencic (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on grass.
The last time that they squared off, Bencic won 6-2 4-6 7-6(5) in the 1st round in St. Petersburg back in February 2022.
Highlights Belinda Bencic vs Veronika Kudermetova – St. Petersburg 07-February-2022
Belinda Bencic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39-17 | 31-12 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 8-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 31-13 | 24-10 | 4-2 | 0-0 | 3-1 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 42-18 | 13-9 | 13-4 | 10-2 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 37-20 | 22-9 | 5-5 | 5-3 | 5-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 17, Belinda reached the quarter after beating Madison Brengle 6-4 6-3 and Anna Kalinskaya 7-62 6-4.
In the 2nd round, Belinda had a good straight sets win against Kalinskaya (7-62 6-4). During the match, Bencic scored 82 points vs Kalinskaya’s 71. The Swiss was quite aggressive to blast 43 winners.
Talking about the service games, Bencic scored 4 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Belinda Bencic lost the serve once and she saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Bencic put 67% of her first serves in, winning 83% (43/52) of the points behind her 1st serve and 42% (11/26) on the 2nd serve. The Swiss broke Kalinskaya twice after converting 40% of her break points (2/5).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Belinda hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this tournament to win 55% of the points she played.
Bencic has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 65% of her matches (319-171). 2-0 on grass in 2022. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Bencic has a compiled 49-21 win-loss record in the last years on grass.
Her best result of the season was winning the title in in Charleston where she defeated Ons Jabeur in the final 6-1 5-7 6-4.
Bencic has an overall 22-9 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
Previously in ‘s-Hertogenbosch
Veronika Kudermetova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35-25 | 22-16 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 4-4 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 18-25 | 10-16 | 3-5 | 0-0 | 5-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 34-22 | 18-14 | 8-5 | 1-1 | 7-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 39-20 | 27-13 | 7-4 | 0-1 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 33-24 | 15-13 | 14-4 | 3-4 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 24, Veronika reached the quarter after defeating Leolia Jeanjean 6-2 6-3 and Anna Blinkova 5-7 5-2 ret..
In the 2nd round against Blinkova, Kudermetova recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (5-7 5-2 ret.). During the match Kudermetova scored 67 points vs Blinkova’s 60. Kudermetova was quite aggressive to blast 24 winners.
About the serving games, Kudermetova scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Veronika Kudermetova lost the serve 3 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Kudermetova put 60% of her first serves in, winning 65% (24/37) of the points behind her 1st serve and 52% (13/25) on the 2nd serve. Veronika broke Blinkova 3 times after converting 38% of her break points (3/8).
Kudermetova’s best result of the current year was reaching the final in Melbourne, Dubai and Istanbul.
Veronika has a compiled 22-11 win-loss record in 2022, 2-0 on grass (See FULL STATS).
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Bencic | Kudermetova |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 5 |
| Tot Games | 42 | 36 |
| Pts | 159-132 | 132-106 |
| Total Points | 291 | 238 |
| Winners | 72 | 48 |
| %Winners | 45% | 36% |
Both Bencic and Kudermetova played 2 matches. At the moment, Veronika Kudermetova surrendered 1 set while Belinda Bencic hasn’t conceded a set so far. Bencic has played 1 set(s) less than Kudermetova (4 vs 5). However, it’s interesting to notice that Bencic played 6 games more than Kudermetova. Bencic scored 72 winners (45% of the total points). On the other side, Veronika recorded 48 winners (36%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Bencic | Kudermetova |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 6 | 8 |
| Avg per match | 3 | 4 |
| 1st in | 90/134 | 67/108 |
| %1st in | 67% | 62% |
| 1st pts | 72/90 | 48/67 |
| %1st pts | 80% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 19/44 | 23/41 |
| %2nd pts | 43% | 56% |
Bencic managed to score 6 aces (3 per match). Kudermetova made 8 aces (4 per match). Bencic won 80% points behind her first serve. She very solid her second serve to win 43% of the points. On the other side, Kudermetova won 72% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 56% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Bencic | Kudermetova |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 6 | 7 |
| Converted | 6/14 | 7/17 |
| % Converted | 43% | 41% |
| Conceded | 12 | 8 |
| Saved | 10 | 5 |
| % Saved | 83% | 63% |
| Times Broken | 2 | 3 |
Belinda broke her opponents 6 times with a 43% conversion rate. Bencic lost her serve twice and she saved 83% of the break points that she conceded. Veronika broke her opponents 7 times with a 41% conversion rate. Veronika conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 63% of the break points that she conceded.
| Bencic | ||||
| R1 Brengle | R2 Kalinskaya | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-4 6-3 | 7-62 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 23 | 42 | |
| pts | 77-61 | 82-71 | 159-132 | |
| Total points | 138 | 153 | 291 | |
| Winners | 29 | 43 | 72 | |
| %Winners | 38% | 52% | 45% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 2 | 4 | 6 | |
| Double Faults | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 38/56 | 52/78 | 90/134 | |
| % 1st in | 68% | 67% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 29/38 | 43/52 | 72/90 | |
| % 1st pts | 76% | 83% | 80% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/18 | 11/26 | 19/44 | |
| % 2nd pts | 44% | 42% | 43% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 2/5 | 6/14 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 40% | 43% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 7 | 12 | |
| Saved | 4/5 | 6/7 | 10 | |
| Saved % | 80% | 86% | 83% | |
| Times Broken | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Kudermetova | ||||
| R1 Jeanjean | R2 Blinkova | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-3 | 5-7 5-2 ret. | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 17 | 19 | 36 | |
| pts | 65-46 | 67-60 | 132-106 | |
| Total points | 111 | 127 | 238 | |
| Winners | 24 | 24 | 48 | |
| %Winners | 37% | 36% | 36% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 7 | 1 | 8 | |
| Double Faults | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1st in | 30/46 | 37/62 | 67/108 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 60% | 62% | |
| 1st pts | 24/30 | 24/37 | 48/67 | |
| % 1st pts | 80% | 65% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 10/16 | 13/25 | 23/41 | |
| % 2nd pts | 63% | 52% | 56% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| Converted | 4/9 | 3/8 | 7/17 | |
| Converted % | 44% | 38% | 41% | |
| Conceded | 1 | 7 | 8 | |
| Saved | 1/1 | 4/7 | 5 | |
| Saved % | 100% | 57% | 79% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
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