Elina Svitolina and Belinda Bencic will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Miami Open for the 5^th time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Friday at 6:30 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 -> 1.727
Elina Svitolina -> 2.11

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Prediction and head to head Elina Svitolina vs. Belinda Bencic

This will be the 5^th time that Elina Svitolina and Belinda Bencic clash against each other. The head to head is 2-2 for Svitolina and Bencic (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Svitolina won 5-7 6-3 4-1 ret. in the semifinal in Shenzhen back in 2019.

Elina Svitolina

Ranked no. 22, the Ukrainian will start her run in Miami after she played her last match in Indian Wells where she lost 7-5 6-3 to Andreeva in the quarter on the 13^th of March.

Elina has a composed 9-5 win-loss record in 2025, 9-4 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about her overall career, Svitolina has an overall 509-265 record. She has a positive 292-139 record on hard.

Previously in Miami

Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2021. See her history.

Belinda Bencic

Ranked no. 45, the Swiss reached the 2^nd round after beating Dayana Yastremska 6-4 1-6 7-5.

In the 1^st round, The Swiss defeated Yastremska (6-4 1-6 7-5). During the match Bencic and Yastremska scored the same amount of points (106). However, the world no. 22 was stronger during the important points and that was the most significant difference in the match. Belinda was extremely aggressive to blast 51 winners.

About the serving games, Bencic made 5 aces and she committed only 9 double faults. Belinda Bencic lost the serve 4 times and she saved 11 break points. Furthermore, Bencic put 68% of her first serves in, winning 71% (51/72) of the points behind her 1st serve and 26% (9/34) on the 2nd serve. Bencic broke Yastremska 4 times after converting 57% of her break points (4/7).

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

Bencic has an overall 18-5 win-loss record in 2025, 18-5 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Miami

Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2022. See her history.

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• Cori GauffGauff – Sofia KeninKenin (6-0 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Rebecca SramkovaSramkova (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – Alycia ParksParks (7-6¹ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse – Magdalena FrechFrech (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mariano KestelboimKestelboim – Hugo PonticoPontico (6-4 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Imanol Lopez MorilloLopez Morillo
  – Mateus Alves (2001)Alves (2001) (6-4 6-7² 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Skander MansouriMansouri – Aaron SchmidSchmid (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Aziz DougazDougaz – Yuichiro InuiInui (7-5 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Mateo Nicolas MartinezNicolas Martinez – Gabriele Maria NoceMaria Noce (6-0 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Luca GiacominiGiacomini – Jake HerseyHersey (6-0 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Michal DembekDembek – Maxime HamouHamou (7-6⁴ 6-3) – Stats, scores, rankings
• Aryna SabalenkaAryna – Viktoriya TomovaViktoriya (6-3 6-0) – See score progression

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• Taylor TownsendTownsend – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Lucia BronzettiBronzetti – Maria SakkariSakkari (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Magda LinetteLinette (2-3) – H2H and prediction
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• Naomi OsakaOsaka – Ludmilla SamsonovaSamsonova (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Katerina SiniakovaSiniakova (2-5) – H2H and prediction
• Emma NavarroNavarro – Emma RaducanuRaducanu (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Mccartney KesslerKessler – (0-1) – H2H and prediction
• Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Mayar SherifSherif (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Kimberly BirrellBirrell – Marta KostyukKostyuk (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Moyuka UchijimaUchijima (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Bernarda PeraPera – Jessica PegulaPegula (0-2) – H2H and prediction
• Madison KeysKeys – Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Clara TausonTauson – Julia GrabherGrabher (3-0) – H2H and prediction
• Karolina MuchovaMuchova – Victoria AzarenkaAzarenka (1-1) – H2H and prediction
• Belinda BencicBencic – Elina SvitolinaSvitolina (2-2) – H2H and prediction
• Elise MertensMertens – Peyton StearnsStearns (1-0) – H2H and prediction
• Caroline GarciaGarcia – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (1-5) – H2H and prediction
• Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Elena Gabriela RuseGabriela Ruse (0-0) – H2H and prediction
• Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez – (1-2) – H2H and prediction