Belinda Bencic and Claire Liu will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Australian Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 7:00 pm on Margaret Court Arena. In the following paragraphs, you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Belinda Bencic who should win in 2 sets.
Belinda Bencic -> 1.126
Claire Liu -> 6.1
Click here to see the updated quotes and live streaming (only selected countries - USA excluded).
Here where top tennis events are broadcasted or streamed online (ATP, WTA).
At the challenger level, there will be free live streaming on Challenger TV.
Prediction and head to head Belinda Bencic vs. Claire Liu
There is no head to head record between Belinda Bencic and Claire Liu since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
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. 10, the Swiss reached the 2nd round after defeating Viktoriya Tomova 6-1 6-2.
In the 1st round, Belinda had a good straight sets win against Tomova (6-1 6-2). During the match, Bencic scored 61 points vs Tomova’s 33. The Swiss was extremely aggressive to blast 19 winners.
Talking about the service games, Bencic struck 5 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Belinda Bencic was very efficient on serve to win 86% (19/22) of her 1st serve and 69% (9/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Bencic broke Tomova 5 times after converting 50% of her break points (5/10).
Bencic has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 65% of her matches (303-164). 6-1 on hard in 2023. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Bencic has a compiled 150-85 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Her best result of the current season was conquering the title in Adelaide where she defeated Daria Kasatkina in the final 6-0 6-2.
Bencic has an aggregate 6-1 win-loss record in 2023, 6-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Claire Liu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24-19 | 20-13 | 4-6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 18-12 | 11-7 | 7-5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-29 | 19-19 | 7-8 | 0-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-22 | 15-14 | 12-4 | 0-1 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 39-17 | 17-11 | 17-4 | 0-0 | 5-2 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 62, the American got to the 2nd round after defeating Madison Brengle 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Liu had a good straight sets win against Brengle (6-3 6-4). During the match Liu scored 60 points vs Brengle’s 49. Liu was exceptionally aggressive to blast 25 winners.
Talking about serving, Liu was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Claire Liu lost the serve 3 times and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Liu put 72% of her first serves in, winning 61% (25/41) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (8/16) on the 2nd serve. Claire broke Brengle 5 times after converting 63% of her break points (5/8).
The American has an aggregate 4-2 win-loss record in 2023, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the Australian Open
Previously, her best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Bencic | Liu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 1 | 1 |
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Games | 15 | 19 |
| Pts | 61-33 | 60-49 |
| Total Points | 94 | 109 |
| Winners | 19 | 25 |
| %Winners | 31% | 42% |
Both Bencic and Liu played 1 match. Both players have not lost a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Bencic and Liu have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Bencic played 4 games less than Liu. Belinda scored 19 winners (31% of the total points). On the other side, The American fired 25 winners (42%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Bencic | Liu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 5 | 0 |
| Avg per match | 5 | 0 |
| 1st in | 22/35 | 41/57 |
| %1st in | 63% | 72% |
| 1st pts | 19/22 | 25/41 |
| %1st pts | 86% | 61% |
| 2nd pts | 9/13 | 8/16 |
| %2nd pts | 69% | 50% |
Bencic fired 5 aces . Liu didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Bencic won 86% points behind her first serve. She pretty effective on her second serve to win 69% of the points. On the other side, Liu won 61% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 50% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Bencic | Liu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 5 | 5 |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/8 |
| % Converted | 50% | 63% |
| Conceded | 0 | 5 |
| Saved | 0 | 2 |
| % Saved | 0% | 40% |
| Times Broken | 0 | 3 |
The Swiss broke her opponent 5 times with a 50% conversion rate. Bencic extremely effective on her serve as she has never surrendered a single service game after saving 0 break points. The American broke her opponent 5 times with a 63% conversion rate. Liu conceded her serve 3 times and she saved 40% of the break points that she conceded.
| Bencic | |||
| R1 Tomova | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-1 6-2 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 15 | 15 | |
| pts | 61-33 | 61-33 | |
| Total points | 94 | 94 | |
| Winners | 19 | 19 | |
| %Winners | 31% | 31% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 5 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 22/35 | 22/35 | |
| % 1st in | 63% | 63% | |
| 1st pts | 19/22 | 19/22 | |
| % 1st pts | 86% | 86% | |
| 2nd pts | 9/13 | 9/13 | |
| % 2nd pts | 69% | 69% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/10 | 5/10 | |
| Converted % | 50% | 50% | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0 | |
| Saved | 0/0 | 0 | |
| Saved % | – | 0% | |
| Times Broken | 0 | 0 | |
| Liu | |||
| R1 Brengle | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 6-4 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | |
| Tot Games | 19 | 19 | |
| pts | 60-49 | 60-49 | |
| Total points | 109 | 109 | |
| Winners | 25 | 25 | |
| %Winners | 42% | 42% | |
| SERVE | |||
| Aces | 0 | 0 | |
| Double Faults | 3 | 3 | |
| 1st in | 41/57 | 41/57 | |
| % 1st in | 72% | 72% | |
| 1st pts | 25/41 | 25/41 | |
| % 1st pts | 61% | 61% | |
| 2nd pts | 8/16 | 8/16 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 50% | |
| Breaks | |||
| Won | 5 | 5 | |
| Converted | 5/8 | 5/8 | |
| Converted % | 63% | 63% | |
| Conceded | 5 | 5 | |
| Saved | 2/5 | 2 | |
| Saved % | 40% | 40% | |
| Times Broken | 3 | 3 | |
Tennis Scores – Australian Open
- Cori GauffGauff – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Diana ShnaiderShnaider (3-6 7-5 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Kateryna BaindlBaindl – Caty McNallyMcNally (6-1 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (6-71 6-2 7-66) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Cristina BucsaBucsa – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (2-6 7-67 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Anhelina KalininaKalinina – Petra KvitovaKvitova (7-5 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Maria Camila Osorio SerranoCamila Osorio Serrano (6-2 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Madison KeysKeys – Xinyu WangWang (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Clara BurelBurel (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Olivia GadeckiGadecki (6-2 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Aliaksandra SasnovichSasnovich (6-2 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Anna BondarBondar (7-65 5-7 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bernarda PeraPera – Qinwen ZhengZheng (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Nadia PodoroskaPodoroska (6-1 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Lin ZhuZhu – Jil TeichmannTeichmann (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Franco AgamenoneAgamenone – Bogdan Ionut ApostolIonut Apostol (7-62 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Bogdan BorzaBorza – Francesco VilardoVilardo (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Laslo Urrutia FuentesUrrutia Fuentes – Calin MandaManda (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Kaja JuvanJuvan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Lucrezia StefaniniStefanini (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (1-5) – H2H and prediction
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Petra MarticMartic (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Katie VolynetsVolynets – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Magda LinetteLinette (3-4) – H2H and prediction
- Taylor TownsendTownsend – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Irina-Camelia BeguBegu – Laura SiegemundSiegemund (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Caroline GarciaGarcia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Shelby RogersRogers (2-0) – H2H and prediction
- Lauren DavisDavis – Elise MertensMertens (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anna SchmiedlovaSchmiedlova – Camila GiorgiGiorgi (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Claire LiuLiu – Belinda BencicBencic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Nuria Parrizas-DiazParrizas-Diaz – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Donna VekicVekic – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kimberly BirrellBirrell – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Ons JabeurJabeur (1-3) – H2H and prediction
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Cristina BucsaBucsa (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Kateryna KozlovaKozlova – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (3-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bernarda PeraPera – Cori GauffGauff (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Marta KostyukKostyuk (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Madison KeysKeys – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (0-3) – H2H and prediction
- Lin ZhuZhu – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-1) – H2H and prediction