Belinda Bencic conquers Serena Williams 6-2 6-4 in the 2nd round in Toronto on Wednesday. Bencic will play Garbine Muguruza in the 3rd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 17 minutes. Belinda won this tournament once in 2015. Here you can see her history at this event.
Highlights Belinda Bencic vs. Serena Williams National Bank Open – Toronto
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Bencic scored 64 points vs. the American’s 49.
Bencic
Belinda served pretty well to win 84% of the points (32/38) behind her first serve. Anyhow she won only 48% points (10/21) on her second serve. The Swiss won this match even if she had some problems converting her break points after she converted only 38% (3/8) of the procured opportunities.
Williams
On the other side, Serena wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/1). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this contest, the head to head between Bencic and Williams is 2-2.
Draw and next match H2H: Belinda Bencic vs. Garbine Muguruza – stats
Bencic will take on Muguruza in the 3rd round.
This will be the 3rd time that Belinda Bencic and Garbine Muguruza fight against each other. The head to head is 1-1 for Bencic and Muguruza (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Muguruza won 6-2 6-4 in the 1st round in Tokyo back in 2018.
Live score progression and stats
Belinda in this set played much better tennis than Williams and without too much struggle she won 6-2 after breaking Serena in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
They played 65 points. The Swiss won 9 points more than Serena (37-28). Belinda conceded 14 points on serve (21-14). In addition, on the other side, the American conceded 16 points on serve (14-16).
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Belinda conquered in the 7th game (4-3) just before ultimately winning the set (6-4).
Belinda converted 50% of her break points (1/2). She had 2 break points opportunities in the 7th game (3-3 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, Belinda didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 49 points. The set was a huge battle since finally the Swiss won just 3 more points than the American (26-23). Bencic conceded 5 points on serve (20-5). on the other side of the court, the American conceded 6 points on serve (18-6).
Tennis Scores in Toronto
- Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza – Kaia KanepiKanepi (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Simona HalepHalep – Shuai ZhangZhang (6-4 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Alison RiskeRiske – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (7-62 0-6 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Camila GiorgiGiorgi – Elise MertensMertens (6-3 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Belinda BencicBencic – Serena WilliamsWilliams (6-2 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Sara Sorribes TormoSorribes Tormo (6-4 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Anett KontaveitKontaveit (6-4 6-4) – Stats and score progression
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Alize CornetCornet (6-3 4-6 6-3) – Stats and score progression
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Asia MuhammadMuhammad (6-2 7-5) – Stats and score progression
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (7-64 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic (6-1 6-2) – Stats and score progression
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Ons JabeurJabeur (6-1 2-1 ret.) – Stats and score progression
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (7-5 1-0 ret.) – Stats and score progression
- Cori GauffGauff – Elena RybakinaRybakina (6-4 6-78 7-63) – Stats and score progression
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (6-1 6-1) – Stats and score progression
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Sloane StephensStephens (6-2 4-6 6-2) – Stats and score progression
Upcoming matches
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Belinda BencicBencic – Garbine MuguruzaMuguruza (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (2-1) – H2H details and stats
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Qinwen ZhengZheng (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (3-1) – H2H details and stats
- Alison RiskeRiske – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Cori GauffGauff (1-2) – H2H details and stats
- Simona HalepHalep – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (0-0) – H2H details and stats