Elina Svitolina defeats Belinda Bencic 6-2 6-4 in the 3rd round in Toronto on Thursday. Svitolina will seek to keep on going in this event against Sofia Kenin in the quarter.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
Svitolina was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Bencic in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, that wasn’t sufficient for the Ukrainian to win the set as Belinda managed to break back in the 6th (2-4) game. Elina kept her cool to break Belinda in the 7th (5-2) game before managing to win the set (6-2).
2nd set.
Elina won the set after she broke Belinda 3 times in the 3rd (2-1), in the 5th (4-1) and in the 7th (5-2) game. Belinda tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6th (4-2) and in the 8th (5-3) game. Yet, the Ukrainian managed to stay calm and finish the job before winning the set 6-4.
Svitolina failed to serve out the set when leading 5-2 to be broken at 40.
A crucial moment of the match was when the Ukrainian won 4 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the scoreline from 0-1 to 4-1.
At the end of the match, the Ukrainian scored 71 points vs. the Swiss’s 56 points.
The Ukrainian won this match even if she was far from perfect in converting her break points as she converted only 46% (6/13). On the other side, Belinda was pretty effective in converting 50% of the break points that she procured points (3/6). Yet, that was not enough to win the contest.
After this contest, the head to head between Svitolina and Bencic is 1-2 for Belinda.
Highlights Elina Svitolina vs. Belinda Bencic Rogers Cup – Toronto
Next Match: Elina Svitolina vs. Sofia Kenin – H2H and stats
Svitolina will fight against Kenin in the quarter.
This will be the 2nd time that Elina Svitolina and Sofia Kenin fight against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Svitolina (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Svitolina won 3-6 7-65 6-4 in the 2nd round in Indian Wells back in March 2019.
