Belinda Bencic and Marta Kostyuk will clash against each other in the 2nd round of the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 7:00 pm on Stadium Court. In the following lines 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 3 sets.
As per the initial odds, Belinda Bencic is the pick to win this match.
Belinda Bencic -> 1.47
Marta Kostyuk -> 2.69
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Prediction and head to head Belinda Bencic vs. Marta Kostyuk
This will be the 2nd time that Belinda Bencic and Marta Kostyuk play each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Bencic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played, Bencic won 6-3 6-1 in the 2nd round in Miami back in 2022.
Belinda Bencic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2-1 | 2-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 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. 9, Belinda will start her run in Abu Dhabi after she played her last match at the Melbourne where she lost 7-5 6-2 to Sabalenka in the 4th round on the 23rd of January.
Belinda has an overall 8-2 win-loss record in 2023, 8-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the year was winning the title in Adelaide where she overcame Daria Kasatkina in the final 6-0 6-2.
Talking about her overall career, Belinda has an overall 365-188 record. She has a positive 172-91 record on hard.
Previously in Abu Dhabi
Belinda has never competed in this tournament before.
Marta Kostyuk
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0-1 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 34-22 | 24-14 | 8-5 | 0-0 | 2-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 26-22 | 22-16 | 2-4 | 0-0 | 2-2 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 28-20 | 18-11 | 3-4 | 4-3 | 3-2 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 25-17 | 8-9 | 10-4 | 3-1 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 57, Kostyuk got to the 2nd round after beating Sorana Cirstea 6-2 1-6 6-2.
In the 1st round, Marta defeated Cirstea (6-2 1-6 6-2). During the match Kostyuk scored 85 points vs Cirstea’s 74. Marta was extremely aggressive to blast 30 winners.
Talking about serving, Kostyuk bagged 4 aces and she committed only 5 double faults. Overall, Marta Kostyuk was extremely efficient on serve to win 71% (30/42) of her 1st serve and 51% (18/35) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve twice. The Ukrainian broke Cirstea 4 times after converting 36% of her break points (4/11).
Marta has a composed 9-4 win-loss record in 2023, 9-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Head 2 Head
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L Tennis Scores in Abu Dhabi
- Shelby RogersRogers – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (6-4 6-75 6-1) – See score progression
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Claire LiuLiu (3-6 6-2 6-0) – See score progression
- Belinda Bencic/Elise MertensBencic/Elise Mertens – Alicja Rosolska/Erin RoutliffeRosolska/Erin Routliffe (6-1 6-1) – See score progression
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Rebecca MarinoMarino (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (4-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Elise MertensMertens – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (6-0 6-2) – See score progression
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (7-5 1-6 7-5) – See score progression
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Shuai ZhangZhang (4-6 7-64 6-4) – See score progression
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (6-2 1-6 6-2) – See score progression
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Rebecca MarinoMarino (6-3 6-3) – See score progression
- Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova – Claire LiuLiu (3-6 6-2 6-0) – See score progression
- Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (4-6 6-3 6-0) – See score progression
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Ysaline BonaventureBonaventure (6-1 6-3) – See score progression
- Shelby RogersRogers – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (6-4 6-7(5) 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jil TeichmannTeichmann – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Elise MertensMertens (1-4) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina PliskovaPliskova – Elena RybakinaRybakina (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Anett KontaveitKontaveit – Shelby RogersRogers (2-1) – H2H and prediction
- Marta KostyukKostyuk – Belinda BencicBencic (0-1) – H2H and prediction
