Belinda Bencic and Lin Zhu will fight against each other in the 3rd round of the U.S. Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to play on Friday at 5:00 pm on Grandstand. 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 2 sets.
As per the initial odds, Belinda Bencic is the pick to win this match.
Belinda Bencic -> 1.27
Lin Zhu -> 3.78
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Prediction and head to head Belinda Bencic vs. Lin Zhu
This will be the 2nd time that Belinda Bencic and Lin Zhu face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Bencic (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they squared off, Bencic won 7-5 6-2 in the 1st round in Tianjin back in 2014.
Belinda Bencic
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21-9 | 18-6 | 3-3 | 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. 13, Bencic reached the 3rd round after defeating Kamilla Rakhimova 6-2 6-4 and Yuriko Miyazaki 6-3 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Belinda had a good straight sets win against Miyazaki (6-3 6-3). During the match, Bencic scored 67 points vs Miyazaki’s 50. Belinda was extremely aggressive to blast 22 winners.
Talking about the service games, Bencic scored just 1 ace and she committed only 1 double fault. Overall, Belinda Bencic was extremely efficient on serve to win 81% (22/27) of her 1st serve and 57% (13/23) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Belinda broke Miyazaki 4 times after converting 67% of her break points (4/6).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Belinda hasn’t conceded yet a set in this competition to win 56% of the points she played.
Bencic has a solid match record in the last 10 years having won 65% of her matches (327-174). 23-8 on hard in 2023. Talking about her performance on the same surface of this competition, Bencic has an overall 167-92 win-loss record in the last years on hard.
Her best result of the current year was conquering the title in Adelaide where she beat 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.
Belinda has a composed 30-11 win-loss record in 2023, 23-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the U.S. Open
Lin Zhu
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10-6 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 15-19 | 12-10 | 0-5 | 0-0 | 3-4 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 28-24 | 23-17 | 0-2 | 1-2 | 4-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 41-26 | 34-15 | 6-6 | 1-2 | 0-3 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 13-14 | 8-10 | 0-1 | 4-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 44, the Chinese got to the 3rd round after beating Mayar Sherif 6-3 7-5 and Victoria Azarenka 6-3 6-3.
In the 2nd round, Zhu had a good straight sets win against Azarenka (6-3 6-3). During the match Zhu scored 71 points vs Azarenka’s 57. The Chinese was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.
Talking about serving, Zhu struck 2 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Lin Zhu was quite effective on serve to win 71% (29/41) of her 1st serve and 67% (12/18) on the second serve. This was the main reason for not conceding a single break during the match. Zhu broke Azarenka 3 times after converting 25% of her break points (3/12).
Overall Performance in this tournament
The Chinese hasn’t dropped yet a set in the tournament to win 56% of the points she played.
Her best result of the current year was conquering the title in Hua Hin where she overcame Lesya Tsurenko in the final 6-4 6-4.
The Chinese has an overall 23-17 win-loss record in 2023, 19-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).
Previously at the U.S. Open
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019. See her history.
H2H Performance in the tournament (main draw)
Matches, sets, games and points
| Points | Bencic | Zhu |
|---|---|---|
| Match played | 2 | 2 |
| Tot Set | 4 | 4 |
| Tot Games | 36 | 39 |
| Pts | 136-109 | 137-107 |
| Total Points | 245 | 244 |
| Winners | 44 | 53 |
| %Winners | 32% | 39% |
Both Bencic and Zhu played 2 matches. Both players have not dropped a single set in this event so far. Talking about their workload, Bencic and Zhu have played the same amount of sets 4. However, Bencic played 3 games less than Zhu. Bencic scored 44 winners (32% of the total points). On the other side, Zhu scored 53 winners (39%).
Serve Performance
| Serve | Bencic | Zhu |
|---|---|---|
| Aces | 4 | 5 |
| Avg per match | 2 | 2.5 |
| 1st in | 62/115 | 74/110 |
| %1st in | 54% | 67% |
| 1st pts | 44/62 | 53/74 |
| %1st pts | 71% | 72% |
| 2nd pts | 28/53 | 23/36 |
| %2nd pts | 53% | 64% |
Bencic made 4 aces (2 per match). Zhu recorded 5 aces (2.5 per match). Bencic won 71% points on her first serve. She extremely effective on her second serve to win 53% of the points. On the other side, Zhu won 72% of the points behind her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 64% of the points.
How they played the important points
| Breaks | Bencic | Zhu |
|---|---|---|
| Won | 9 | 8 |
| Converted | 9/13 | 8/21 |
| % Converted | 69% | 38% |
| Conceded | 12 | 5 |
| Saved | 9 | 3 |
| % Saved | 75% | 60% |
| Times Broken | 3 | 2 |
Bencic broke her opponents 9 times with a 69% conversion rate. The Swiss lost her serve 3 times and she saved 75% of the break points that she conceded. The Chinese broke her opponents 8 times with a 38% conversion rate. Lin conceded her serve twice and she saved 60% of the break points that she conceded.
| Bencic | ||||
| R1 Rakhimova |
R2 Miyazaki |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-2 6-4 | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 18 | 18 | 36 | |
| pts | 69-59 | 67-50 | 136-109 | |
| Total points | 128 | 117 | 245 | |
| Winners | 22 | 22 | 44 | |
| %Winners | 32% | 33% | 32% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| Double Faults | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
| 1st in | 35/65 | 27/50 | 62/115 | |
| % 1st in | 54% | 54% | 54% | |
| 1st pts | 22/35 | 22/27 | 44/62 | |
| % 1st pts | 63% | 81% | 71% | |
| 2nd pts | 15/30 | 13/23 | 28/53 | |
| % 2nd pts | 50% | 57% | 53% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 4 | 9 | |
| Converted | 5/7 | 4/6 | 9/13 | |
| Converted % | 71% | 67% | 69% | |
| Conceded | 11 | 1 | 12 | |
| Saved | 9/11 | 0/1 | 9 | |
| Saved % | 82% | 0% | 41% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Zhu | ||||
| R1 Sherif |
R2 Azarenka |
Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | 6-3 7-5 | 6-3 6-3 | ||
| Tot Set | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Tot Games | 21 | 18 | 39 | |
| pts | 66-50 | 71-57 | 137-107 | |
| Total points | 116 | 128 | 244 | |
| Winners | 24 | 29 | 53 | |
| %Winners | 36% | 41% | 39% | |
| SERVE | ||||
| Aces | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
| Double Faults | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1st in | 33/51 | 41/59 | 74/110 | |
| % 1st in | 65% | 69% | 67% | |
| 1st pts | 24/33 | 29/41 | 53/74 | |
| % 1st pts | 73% | 71% | 72% | |
| 2nd pts | 11/18 | 12/18 | 23/36 | |
| % 2nd pts | 61% | 67% | 64% | |
| Breaks | ||||
| Won | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
| Converted | 5/9 | 3/12 | 8/21 | |
| Converted % | 56% | 25% | 38% | |
| Conceded | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Saved | 0/2 | 3/3 | 3 | |
| Saved % | 0% | 100% | 50% | |
| Times Broken | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
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