Belinda Bencic and Zeynep Sonmez will play each other in the 1st round of the Mutua Madrid Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Wednesday at 1:00 pm on ARANTXA SANCHEZ STADIUM. 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 2 sets.

See updated oddsAs per the initial odds, Belinda Bencic is the pick to win this match.
Belinda Bencic -> 1.43
Zeynep Sonmez -> 2.82

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Prediction and head to head Belinda Bencic vs. Zeynep Sonmez

There is no head to head record between Belinda Bencic and Zeynep Sonmez since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.

Belinda Bencic

Belinda Bencic

19 - 7win/loss

Hard
18-6
I Hard
0-0
Clay
1-1
Rank
39
High
4
LLWWWLLWLW
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. 42, Belinda will start her run in Madrid after she played her last match in Charleston where she lost 6-0 6-3 to Kenin in the 2nd round on the 2nd of April.

Belinda has an aggregate 18-7 win-loss record in 2025, 0-1 on clay (See FULL STATS).

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

Talking about her overall career, The Swiss has an overall 414-208 record. She has a positive 75-45 record on clay.

Previously in Madrid

Previously, her best result was reaching the semifinal in 2019. See her history.

Madrid
Bencic's Record

Zeynep Sonmez

Zeynep Sonmez

12 - 9win/loss

Hard
6-7
I Hard
4-1
Clay
2-1
Rank
76
High
76
LLWWWWWLWL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 12-10 6-7 2-2 4-1 0-0 0-0
2024 41-25 19-9 12-10 4-3 6-3 0-0
2023 54-28 4-4 23-10 17-8 6-4 4-2
2022 38-21 22-8 14-10 2-3 0-0 0-0
2021 21-19 2-3 14-12 5-4 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 77 (career-high), Sonmez got to the 1st round after beating Leyre Romero Gormaz 7-6(8) 6-3 and Varvara Lepchenko 6-2 6-2.

In the qualifications, The Turk had a good straight sets win against Lepchenko (6-2 6-2). During the match Sonmez scored 60 points vs Lepchenko’s 39. The Turk was pretty aggressive to blast 18 winners.

Talking about serving, Sonmez was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 2 double faults. Zeynep Sonmez lost the serve twice and she saved 7 break points. Furthermore, Sonmez put 50% of her first serves in, winning 69% (18/26) of the points behind her 1st serve and 50% (13/26) on the 2nd serve. Zeynep broke Lepchenko 6 times after converting 60% of her break points (6/10).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Sonmez started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t lost yet a set in this competition to conquer 55% of the points she played.

Sonmez has a compiled 9-8 win-loss record in 2025, 2-0 on clay (See FULL STATS).

Madrid
Sonmez's Record

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