Belinda Bencic and Victoria Azarenka will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Qatar TotalEnergies Open for the 3^rd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 3:30 pm on Grandstand 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance 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 -> 1.64
Victoria Azarenka -> 2.26

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Prediction and head to head Belinda Bencic vs. Victoria Azarenka

This will be the 3^rd time that Belinda Bencic and Victoria Azarenka square off. The head to head is 2-0 for Azarenka (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Azarenka won 6-4 1-0 ret. in the 1^st round in Cincinnati back in 2019.

Belinda Bencic

Ranked no. 9, the Swiss got to the 2^nd round after beating Viktoriya Tomova 6-0 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Belinda had a good straight sets win against Tomova (6-0 6-1). During the match, Bencic scored 59 points vs Tomova’s 29. The Swiss was extremely aggressive to blast 24 winners.

Talking about the service games, Bencic made 4 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Belinda Bencic was extremely effective on serve to win 75% (24/32) of her 1st serve and 54% (7/13) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Belinda broke Tomova 5 times after converting 56% of her break points (5/9).

Bencic has a solid record in the last 10 years having won 65% of her matches (310-165). 13-2 on hard in 2023. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Bencic has an aggregate 157-86 match record in the last years on hard.

Her best result of the current year was conquering the title in Adelaide where she overcame Daria Kasatkina in the final 6-0 6-2 and in Abu Dhabi where she beat Liudmila Samsonova in the final 1-6 7-6(8) 6-4.

Bencic has a composed 13-2 win-loss record in 2023, 13-2 on hard (See FULL STATS)

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Previously in Doha

Victoria Azarenka

Ranked no. 17, Azarenka got to the 2^nd round after defeating Ipek Oz 6-1 6-1.

In the 1^st round, Azarenka had a good straight sets win against Oz (6-1 6-1). During the match Azarenka scored 57 points vs Oz’s 27. The Belarussian was pretty aggressive to blast 22 winners.

About the serving games, Azarenka couldn’t to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Victoria Azarenka lost the serve once and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Azarenka put 70% of her first serves in, winning 79% (22/28) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (6/12) on the 2nd serve. The Belarussian broke Oz 6 times after converting 67% of her break points (6/9).

The Belarussian’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in at the Australian Open .

Victoria has an aggregate 8-3 win-loss record in 2023, 8-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Doha

Previously, she won this tournament twice in 2012 and 2013. See her history.

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Bencic	Azarenka
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	13	14
Pts	59-29	57-27
Total Points	88	84
Winners	24	22
%Winners	41%	39%

Both Bencic and Azarenka played 1 match. Both players have not conceded a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Bencic and Azarenka have played the same amount of sets 2. However, Bencic played 1 game less than Azarenka. Belinda scored 24 winners (41% of the total points). On the other side, Azarenka made 22 winners (39%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Bencic	Azarenka
Aces	4	0
Avg per match	4	0
1st in	32/45	28/40
%1st in	71%	70%
1st pts	24/32	22/28
%1st pts	75%	79%
2nd pts	7/13	6/12
%2nd pts	54%	50%

Bencic recorded 4 aces . Azarenka didn’t manage to fire a single ace to far. Bencic won 75% points on her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 54% of the points. On the other side, Azarenka won 79% 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	Azarenka
Won	5	6
Converted	5/9	6/9
% Converted	56%	67%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	3	2
% Saved	100%	67%
Times Broken	0	1

Belinda broke her opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. The Swiss very solid her serve as she has never surrendered a single service game after saving 3 break points. Victoria broke her opponent 6 times with a 67% conversion rate. Azarenka conceded her serve once and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded.

Bencic
	R1 Tomova	Total
Score	6-0 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	13	13
pts	59-29	59-29
Total points	88	88
Winners	24	24
%Winners	41%	41%
SERVE
Aces	4	4
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	32/45	32/45
% 1st in	71%	71%
1st pts	24/32	24/32
% 1st pts	75%	75%
2nd pts	7/13	7/13
% 2nd pts	54%	54%
Breaks
Won	5	5
Converted	5/9	5/9
Converted %	56%	56%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	3/3	3
Saved %	100%	100%
Times Broken	0	0

Azarenka
	R1 Oz	Total
Score	6-1 6-1
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	14	14
pts	57-27	57-27
Total points	84	84
Winners	22	22
%Winners	39%	39%
SERVE
Aces	0	0
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	28/40	28/40
% 1st in	70%	70%
1st pts	22/28	22/28
% 1st pts	79%	79%
2nd pts	6/12	6/12
% 2nd pts	50%	50%
Breaks
Won	6	6
Converted	6/9	6/9
Converted %	67%	67%
Conceded	3	3
Saved	2/3	2
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	1	1

Tennis Scores in Doha

• Jeroen VannesteVanneste – Romain BarbosaBarbosa (6-3 3-6 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Rio NoguchiNoguchi – Yannick VandenbulckeVandenbulcke (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Louis WesselsWessels – Mateusz TerczynskiTerczynski (6-2 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jonas MerckxMerckx – Manuel GuinardGuinard (6-4 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Valentin GuentherGuenther – Matteo MartineauMartineau (6-4 3-6 7-6⁶) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Julien DubailDubail – Sidane PontjodikromoPontjodikromo (6-4 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings

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• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Belinda BencicBencic (2-0) – H2H and prediction
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• Maria SakkariSakkari – Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova (5-1) – H2H and prediction
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Caroline GarciaGarcia (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Jessica PegulaPegula (1-2) – H2H and prediction