Belinda Bencic and Aoi Ito will face off in the 1^st round of the Dubai Duty Free Championships for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 4:00 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 -> 1.2
Aoi Ito -> 4.55

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Prediction and head to head Belinda Bencic vs. Aoi Ito

There is no head to head record between Belinda Bencic and Aoi Ito since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.

Belinda Bencic

Ranked no. 65, the Swiss will start her run in Dubai after she won the title in Abu Dhabi after beating 4-6 6-1 6-1 Krueger in the final.

Bencic has an aggregate 12-3 win-loss record in 2025, 12-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Her best result of the year was winning the title in Abu Dhabi where she overcame Ashlyn Krueger in the final 4-6 6-1 6-1.

Belinda won her last 5 matches.

Talking about her overall career, Bencic has an overall 408-204 record. She has a positive 200-102 record on hard.

Previously in Dubai

Previously, she won this tournament once in 2019. See her history.

Aoi Ito

Ranked no. 120, Ito got to the 1^st round after defeating Taylor Townsend 6-3 6-4 and Ashlyn Krueger 7-5 6-2.

In the qualifications, Aoi had a good straight sets win against Krueger (7-5 6-2). During the match Ito scored 77 points vs Krueger’s 59. The Japanese was quite aggressive to blast 29 winners.

About the serving games, Ito recorded 3 aces and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Overall, Aoi Ito was pretty efficient on serve to win 74% (29/39) of her 1st serve and 52% (15/29) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. The Japanese broke Krueger 4 times after converting 50% of her break points (4/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

The Japanese started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t dropped yet a set in this tournament to win 55% of the points she played.

Her best result of the year was winning the title the Canberra where she beat Sijia Wei in the final 6-4 6-3.

Aoi has a compiled 9-4 win-loss record in 2025, 9-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Tennis Scores in Dubai

• Duje AjdukovicAjdukovic – Nemanja SubanovicSubanovic (6-4 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Sebastian PrechtelPrechtel – Dusan RajicRajic (7-5 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Maxime TchoutakianTchoutakian – Frane NincevicNincevic (4-6 6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Pierre FaivreFaivre – Oscar Jose GutierrezJose Gutierrez (7-5 7-5) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Gonzalo VillanuevaVillanueva – Marek SemjanSemjan (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Christopher O ConnellO Connell – Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Maxim RatniukRatniuk – Nebojsa Milenkovic
  Milenkovic (6-3 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Martins PodzusPodzus – Shunsuke WakitaWakita (6-3 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Ljubomir CelebicCelebic – Gorazd SrbljakSrbljak (1-6 7-6⁵ 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• David PichlerPichler – Daniil GlinkaGlinka (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Juan Pablo FicovichPablo Ficovich – Milan DrinicDrinic (6-1 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Kenneth RaismaRaisma – Bozo BarunBarun (6-1 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Duje KekezKekez (5-7 6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Artem DubrivnyyDubrivnyy – Robert StrombachsStrombachs (7-6³ 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings

Upcoming matches in the draw

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• Rebecca SramkovaSramkova – Clara TausonTauson (1-2) – H2H and prediction
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova – Anastasia PavlyuchenkovaPavlyuchenkova (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Mccartney KesslerKessler – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Maria SakkariSakkari – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Suzan LamensLamens – Karolina MuchovaMuchova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Sorana CirsteaCirstea (2-2) – H2H and prediction
• Alycia ParksParks – Xin Yu WangYu Wang (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Belinda BencicBencic – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Moyuka UchijimaUchijima – Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Elise MertensMertens – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Lulu SunSun – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Donna VekicVekic – Sofia KeninKenin (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Eva LysLys – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Peyton StearnsStearns (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Caroline GarciaGarcia (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan – (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Beatriz Haddad MaiaHaddad Maia – Anastasia PotapovaPotapova (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Magda LinetteLinette – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (1-3) – H2H and prediction
• Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka – Anhelina KalininaKalinina (1-0) – H2H and prediction