
Belinda Bencic powers past Tatjana Maria 6-1 6-1 in the 1st round in Indian Wells on Thursday after playing a terrific match to fight against Amanda Anisimova in the 2nd round. The match lasted 1 hour and 5 minutes. Her best achievement in this event was reaching the semifinal in 2019. Here you can see her history at this event.
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Bencic scored 55 points vs. Tatjana’s 25.
Bencic
The Swiss served exceptionally well to win 83% of the points (20/24) behind her first serve, and she won 60% points (9/15) on her second serve. Bencic was pretty focused in converting 63% of the break points that she conquered (5/8).
Maria
On the other side, the German wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/0). That was one of the key issues for her loss.
After this match, the head to head between Bencic and Maria is 3-0 for Belinda.
Draw and next match H2H: Belinda Bencic vs. Amanda Anisimova – stats
Bencic will square off with Anisimova in the 2nd round.
This will be the 4th time that Belinda Bencic and Amanda Anisimova play each other. The head to head is 2-1 for Anisimova (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Anisimova won 7-65 6-1 in the 2nd round in Rome back in 2022.
Live score progression and stats
Bencic conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Tatjana Maria in the 1st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. The Swiss improved her lead after breaking Tatjana in the 3rd (3-0) and in the 7th (6-1) game before winning the set.
Belinda failed to serve out the set when leading 6-1 to be broken at 30.
There was a pivotal moment in this set when Belinda won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set so as to convert the score from 0-0 to 4-0.
Belinda converted 50% of her break points (3/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 0-40), the 3rd (2-0 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A) and the 7th game (5-1 0-40 and 15-40). On the other side, Belinda didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 50 points. Belinda was the winner of the set after clinching 16 points more than Maria (33-17). The Swiss lost 8 points on serve (17-8). Regarding the other side of the net, the German conceded 16 points on serve (9-16).
Belinda won the set after she broke Maria in the 4th (3-1) and in the 6th (5-1) game.
Tatjana was not able to offer any resistance in the last 5 games of the set when the score went from 1-1 to 6-1.
Belinda was on the money in converting all her break points in the 3rd (2-1 15-40) and the 6th game (4-1 15-40). On the other side, the Swiss didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 29 points. Bencic was the winner of the set after clinching 15 more points than Maria (22-7). Belinda was untouchable on serve to concede just 1 point during her serving games (12-1). Regarding the other side of the net, Maria conceded 10 points on serve (6-10).
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