Belinda Bencic and Viktoriya Tomova will face off in the 1st round of the Qatar TotalEnergies Open for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 6:00 pm on Center Court. 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.
As per the initial odds, Belinda Bencic is the pick to win this match.
Belinda Bencic -> 1.052
Viktoriya Tomova -> 9.8
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Prediction and head to head Belinda Bencic vs. Viktoriya Tomova
This will be the 3rd time that Belinda Bencic and Viktoriya Tomova square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Bencic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Bencic won 6-1 6-2 in the 1st round in at the Australian Open back in January 2023.
Highlights Belinda Bencic vs Viktoriya Tomova – Australian Open 17-January-2023
Belinda Bencic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2020 | 8-8 | 6-5 | 0-1 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2019 | 50-22 | 23-9 | 11-6 | 9-4 | 7-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 9, Bencic will start her run in Doha after she won the title in Abu Dhabi after beating 1-6 7-6(8) 6-4 Samsonova in the final.
Belinda has a compiled 12-2 win-loss record in 2023, 12-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Her best result of the season was conquering the title in Adelaide where she overcame Daria Kasatkina in the final 6-0 6-2 and in Abu Dhabi where she overcame Liudmila Samsonova in the final 1-6 7-6(8) 6-4.
Talking about her overall career, The Swiss has an overall 369-188 record. She has a positive 176-91 record on hard.
Previously in Doha
Previously, her best result was reaching the quarter in 2020. See her history.
Viktoriya Tomova
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 32-30 | 13-14 | 15-13 | 0-1 | 4-2 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 42-29 | 16-9 | 20-10 | 4-5 | 2-5 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-32 | 14-8 | 21-15 | 2-5 | 4-3 | 0-1 |
| 2021 | 23-32 | 5-9 | 13-12 | 2-7 | 1-3 | 2-1 |
| 2020 | 17-10 | 1-4 | 4-3 | 12-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 100, Viktoriya reached the 1st round after beating Maryna Zanevska 7-5 0-0 ret., Lauren Davis 3-6 7-64 2-1 ret. and Madison Brengle 6-3 6-3.
In the qualifications, Tomova had a good straight sets win against Brengle (6-3 6-3). During the match Tomova scored 75 points vs Brengle’s 61. Tomova was very aggressive to blast 28 winners.
Talking about serving, Tomova scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 3 double faults. Viktoriya Tomova lost the serve twice and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Tomova put 62% of her first serves in, winning 64% (28/44) of the points behind her 1st serve and 52% (14/27) on the 2nd serve. The Bulgarian broke Brengle 5 times after converting 38% of her break points (5/13).
The Bulgarian has a composed 5-4 win-loss record in 2023, 3-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Doha
The Bulgarian has never competed in this tournament before.
Head 2 Head
WLWWLLWLLL Tennis Scores in Doha
- Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Ipek OzOz (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Martina TrevisanTrevisan (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – Barbora KrejcikovaKrejcikova (6-4 3-6 7-65) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Louis WesselsWessels – Mousa ZayedZayed (6-0 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Mats RosenkranzRosenkranz (6-3 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jeroen VannesteVanneste – Loic PerretPerret (7-63 3-6 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matteo MartineauMartineau – Buvaysar GadamauriGadamauri (6-4 3-6 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Dimitriy VoroninVoronin – Christopher HeymanHeyman (4-6 6-4 3-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Seppe CuypersCuypers – Billy HarrisHarris (4-6 7-62 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Manuel GuinardGuinard – Yates JohnsonJohnson (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Sidane PontjodikromoPontjodikromo – Marco Di MaroDi Maro (7-5 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Maxime PauwelsPauwels – Mubarak Shannan ZayidShannan Zayid (6-3 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Elise MertensMertens – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Viktoriya TomovaTomova – Belinda BencicBencic (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Petra KvitovaKvitova – Shuai ZhangZhang (4-2) – H2H and prediction
- Sofia KeninKenin – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Maria SakkariSakkari – Qinwen ZhengZheng (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Karolina PliskovaPliskova (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Rebecca MarinoMarino (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert – Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Madison KeysKeys – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (3-1) – H2H and prediction
- Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Caroline GarciaGarcia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
