Belinda Bencic conquers Sorana Cirstea 3-6 7-5 6-2 in the 2nd round in New York on Thursday. Bencic will clash against Karolina Pliskova in the 3rd round. The match lasted 2 hours and 27 minutes. Her most significant achievement in this tournament was reaching the semifinal in 2019. Here you can see her history at this event.
The Swiss added to her prize money $ 67,000 after conquering this match. She has won already $ 188,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, the Swiss will add $ 90,000 to her earnings to get in total $ 278,000 in total.
Highlights Belinda Bencic vs. Sorana Cirstea U.S. Open – New York
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Belinda scored 102 points vs. Sorana’s 96.
Bencic
Belinda won this match even if she was struggling when converting her break points as she converted only 28% (5/18) of the procured opportunities.
Cirstea
On the other side, the Romanian was effective at converting 75% of the break points that she procured points (3/4). Notwithstanding, that was not enough to win the match.
After this match, the head to head between Bencic and Cirstea is 1-2 for Sorana.
Draw and next match H2H: Belinda Bencic vs. Karolina Pliskova – stats
Bencic will face Pliskova in the 3rd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Belinda Bencic and Karolina Pliskova square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Bencic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they competed against each other, Bencic won 6-3 4-6 6-3 in the quarter in Indian Wells back in 2019.
Live score progression and stats
Cirstea won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding her serve in the 3rd (1-2) game, Sorana broke back in the 4th (2-2) and in the 8th (5-3) game to conquer the set 6-3.
Belinda had to surrender the 4th game (2-2) when she was comfortably leading 40-0.
The Romanian was spot on in converting all her break points in the 4th (1-2 40-A) and the 8th game (4-3 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Bencic was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 2nd game (1-1 40-A).
They contested 54 points. The Romanian was the winner of the set after clinching 10 points more than the Swiss (32-22). The Romanian surrendered 8 points on serve (19-8). On the other side, Bencic conceded 13 points on serve (14-13).
Bencic won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 5th (2-3) game, Bencic broke back in the 10th (5-5) and in the 12th game to win the set 7-5.
The Romanian couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 3-5 to 7-5.
Bencic converted 10% of her break points (1/10). She had 10 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 6th (2-3 30-40 and 40-A), the 10th (4-5 0-40, 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 12th game (6-5 30-40). On the other side, the Romanian was clinical in converting the only break point that she conquered in the 5th game (2-2 0-40).
They played 79 points. Belinda was the winner of the set after clinching 5 points more than Sorana (42-37). Bencic surrendered 10 points on serve (20-10). On the losing side, Cirstea conceded 22 points on serve (27-22).
The Swiss in this set was much more effective than Sorana and finally she won 6-2 after breaking the Romanian in the 4th (3-1) and in the 8th (6-2) game.
Belinda converted 28% of her break points (2/7). She had 7 break points opportunities in the 4th (2-1 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 6th (4-1 30-40) and the 8th game (5-2 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, the Swiss didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 65 points. Belinda was the one to win the set after conquering 11 points more than Sorana (38-27). Bencic lost 5 points on serve (16-5). On the losing side, Cirstea conceded 22 points on serve (22-22).
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