Belinda Bencic and Sofia Kenin will square off in the 2nd round of the Credit One Charleston Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 4:00 pm on ALTHEA GIBSON. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Belinda Bencic who should win in 3 sets.
Belinda Bencic -> 1.47
Sofia Kenin -> 2.68
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Prediction and head to head Belinda Bencic vs. Sofia Kenin
This will be the 2nd time that Belinda Bencic and Sofia Kenin square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Kenin (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on clay.
The last time that they squared off, Kenin won 6-7(2) 7-6(5) 6-4 in the final in Mallorca back in 2019.
Belinda Bencic
| 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 |
Ranked no. 41, the Swiss will start her run in Charleston after she played her last match in Miami where she lost 6-1 6-2 to Svitolina in the 2nd round on the 21st of March.
Belinda has an aggregate 18-6 win-loss record in 2025, 0-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
This will be the first match of the season on clay.
Her best result of the year was winning the title in Abu Dhabi where she beat Ashlyn Krueger in the final 4-6 6-1 6-1.
Talking about her overall career, Bencic has an overall 414-207 record. She has a positive 75-44 record on clay.
Previously in Charleston
Previously, she won this tournament once in 2022. See her history.
Sofia Kenin
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31-26 | 19-18 | 9-5 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 16-26 | 10-17 | 5-6 | 0-0 | 1-3 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 27-21 | 17-12 | 3-4 | 1-2 | 6-3 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 10-17 | 7-14 | 0-0 | 3-3 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 11-10 | 7-5 | 3-4 | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 44, the American reached the 2nd round after defeating Bernarda Pera 6-3 6-4.
In the 1st round, Sofia had a good straight sets win against Pera (6-3 6-4). During the match Kenin scored 75 points vs Pera’s 62. Sofia was pretty aggressive to blast 32 winners.
Talking about serving, Kenin struck 5 aces and she committed only 6 double faults. Overall, Sofia Kenin was very efficient on serve to win 73% (32/44) of her 1st serve and 54% (13/24) on the second serve. However, this didn’t prevent her to concede the serve once. Sofia broke Pera 3 times after converting 38% of her break points (3/8).
Kenin has an aggregate 13-8 win-loss record in 2025, 1-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in Charleston
Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2019, 2021 and 2023. See her history
.Tennis Scores in Charleston
- Danielle Rose CollinsRose Collins – Robin MontgomeryMontgomery (6-3 6-1) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Madison KeysKeys – Caroline DolehideDolehide (6-3 7-64) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Veronika KudermetovaKudermetova (6-2 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Koray KirciKirci – Mirko CutuliCutuli (6-1 3-6 7-61) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Jean ThirouinThirouin – Dimitriy VoroninVoronin (5-7 6-3 1-0 ret.) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Denys KlokKlok – Alexander OvcharovOvcharov (6-1 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Ergi KirkinKirkin – Vladimir KorolevKorolev (4-6 6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Matias ZukasZukas – Zakhar TrapeznikovTrapeznikov (6-0 6-0) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Christopher HeymanHeyman – Shinnosuke HiramatsuHiramatsu (6-74 6-1 6-2) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Iryna ShymanovichShymanovich (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ajla TomljanovicTomljanovic – Peyton StearnsStearns (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Jelena OstapenkoOstapenko – Louisa ChiricoChirico (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Maria SakkariSakkari (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Elise MertensMertens (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Ekaterina AlexandrovaAlexandrova – Ann LiLi (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Shuai ZhangZhang – Yulia PutintsevaPutintseva (2-6) – H2H and prediction
- Hailey BaptisteBaptiste – Emma NavarroNavarro (1-2) – H2H and prediction
- Darya KasatkinaKasatkina – Lauren DavisDavis (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sofia KeninKenin – Belinda BencicBencic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Anna KalinskayaKalinskaya – Caty McNallyMcNally (0-1) – H2H and prediction