Belinda Bencic and Karolina Muchova will play each other in the 3rd round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 3rd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Wednesday at 2:00 pm on Court 1. Here the head to head stats and relative 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 -> 1.49
Karolina Muchova -> 2.62

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Prediction and head to head Belinda Bencic vs. Karolina Muchova

This will be the 3rd time that Belinda Bencic and Karolina Muchova clash against each other. The head to head is 2-0 for Bencic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Bencic won 6-3 4-6 7-5 in the 2nd round in Madrid back in 2022.

Belinda Bencic

Belinda Bencic

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
11
High
4
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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
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Ranked no. 9, the Swiss got to the 3rd round after beating Marta Kostyuk 6-77 7-65 6-4.

In the 2nd round against Kostyuk, The Swiss recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (6-77 7-65 6-4). During the match, Bencic scored 127 points vs Kostyuk’s 114. Belinda was exceptionally aggressive to blast 44 winners.

Regarding the service games, Bencic recorded 2 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Belinda Bencic lost the serve 4 times and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Bencic put 63% of her first serves in, winning 63% (44/70) of the points behind her 1st serve and 62% (26/42) on the 2nd serve. The Swiss broke Kostyuk 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 (312-165). 15-2 on hard in 2023. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Bencic has a composed 159-86 match record in the last years on hard.

Her best result of the current year was winning the title in Adelaide where she defeated 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.

The Swiss has a compiled 15-2 win-loss record in 2023, 15-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Dubai

Dubai
Bencic's Record

Karolina Muchova

Karolina Muchova

0 - 0win/loss

Rank
19
High
8
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Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 26-17 23-13 0-1 2-1 1-2 0-0
2024 21-7 15-4 4-2 0-0 2-1 0-0
2023 38-13 28-9 10-3 0-0 0-1 0-0
2022 11-12 3-2 3-3 5-5 0-2 0-0
2021 19-9 10-4 5-3 0-0 4-2 0-0
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Ranked no. 112, Karolina got to the 3rd round after beating Bernarda Pera 6-1 6-4 and Sorana Cirstea 6-4 7-64.

In the 2nd round, Karolina had a good straight sets win against Cirstea (6-4 7-64).During the match Muchova scored less points (2) than Cirstea. In fact, the world no. 9 won 6 points vs Cirstea’s. That means that Muchova was more focused during the important points. Karolina was quite aggressive to blast 3 winners.

Talking about serving, Muchova scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she was pretty steady in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Karolina Muchova conceded no breaks for the entire match to put 50% of her first serves in, win 100% (3/3) of the points behind her 1st serve and 0% (0/3) on the 2nd serve.

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Czech hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 58% of the points she played.

The Czech has a composed 6-3 win-loss record in 2023, 6-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Dubai
Muchova's Record

H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)

B.Bencic
K.Muchova
3h:27
3h:27
Time on court​
3h:34
3h:34
!
3h:27
3h:27
Last match​
!
2h:20
2h:20
1
1
Match played
!
2
2
36
36
Games Played​
40
40
3
3
Set played​​
4
4
127
127
Total points​
155
155
127
127
Avg point​
77.5
77.5
44
44
Winners
67
67
44
44
Avg Winners​
33.5
33.5
35%
35%
Ratio winners
43%
43%
-- Serve --
2
2
Aces
18
18
2
2
Avg Aces
9
9
2
2
Double Faults
4
4
2
2
Avg Double Faults
2
2
44/70
44/70
1st won total​
67/84
67/84
63%
63%
1st won %
!
80%
80%
26/42
26/42
2nd won total​
21/50
21/50
!
62%
62%
2nd won %
42%
42%
-- Break Points --
5/9
5/9
BP won
7/22
7/22
5/9
5/9
Avg BP won
3.5/11
3.5/11
!
56%
56%
Won
32%
32%
9
9
Conceded
5
5
9
9
Avg Conceded
2.5
2.5
4
4
Broken
3
3
4
4
Avg Broken
1.5
1.5
5
5
Saved
2
2
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Matches, sets, games and points

Points Bencic Muchova
Match played 1 2
Tot Set 3 4
Tot Games 36 40
Pts 127-114 67-49
Total Points 241 116
Winners 44 30
%Winners 35% 45%

Bencic played 1 match while Muchova competed in 2 matches. At the moment, Belinda Bencic surrendered 1 set while Karolina Muchova hasn’t lost a set so far. Bencic has played 1 set(s) less than Muchova (3 vs 4). Therefore, Bencic played 4 games less than Muchova. Bencic scored 44 winners (35% of the total points). On the other side, Muchova struck 30 winners (45%).

Serve Performance

Serve Bencic Muchova
Aces 2 9
Avg per match 2 4.5
1st in 70/112 33/58
%1st in 63% 57%
1st pts 44/70 30/33
%1st pts 63% 91%
2nd pts 26/42 11/25
%2nd pts 62% 44%

Bencic bagged 2 aces . Muchova recorded 9 aces (4.5 per match). Bencic won 63% points on her first serve. She quite strong on her second serve to win 62% of the points. On the other side, Muchova won 91% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 44% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks Bencic Muchova
Won 5 3
Converted 5/9 3/9
% Converted 56% 33%
Conceded 9 0
Saved 5 0
% Saved 56% 0%
Times Broken 4 0

Belinda broke her opponent 5 times with a 56% conversion rate. Belinda lost her serve 4 times and she saved 56% of the break points that she conceded. Muchova broke her opponents 3 times with a 33% conversion rate. Muchova was rock solid on her serve as she has never conceded a single service game after saving 0 break points.

Bencic
R2
Kostyuk		 Total
Score 6-77 7-65 6-4
Tot Set 3 3
Tot Games 36 36
pts 127-114 127-114
Total points 241 241
Winners 44 44
%Winners 35% 35%
SERVE
Aces 2 2
Double Faults 2 2
1st in 70/112 70/112
% 1st in 63% 63%
1st pts 44/70 44/70
% 1st pts 63% 63%
2nd pts 26/42 26/42
% 2nd pts 62% 62%
Breaks
Won 5 5
Converted 5/9 5/9
Converted % 56% 56%
Conceded 9 9
Saved 5/9 5
Saved % 56% 56%
Times Broken 4 4
Muchova
R1
Pera		 R2
Cirstea		 Total
Score 6-1 6-4 6-4 7-64
Tot Set 2 2 4
Tot Games 17 23 40
pts 61-41 6-8 67-49
Total points 102 14 116
Winners 27 3 30
%Winners 44% 50% 45%
SERVE
Aces 8 1 9
Double Faults 2 0 2
1st in 30/52 3/6 33/58
% 1st in 58% 50% 57%
1st pts 27/30 3/3 30/33
% 1st pts 90% 100% 91%
2nd pts 11/22 0/3 11/25
% 2nd pts 50% 0% 44%
Breaks
Won 3 0 3
Converted 3/8 0/1 3/9
Converted % 38% 0% 33%
Conceded 0 0 0
Saved 0/0 0/0 0
Saved % – – 0%
Times Broken 0 0 0

Tennis Scores in Dubai

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