Belinda Bencic and Shuai Zhang will play each other in the 1^st round of the U.S. Open for the 2^nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Sunday at 6:00 pm on Stadium 17. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Belinda Bencic who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Belinda Bencic is the pick to win this match.
Belinda Bencic -> 1.21
Shuai Zhang -> 4.45

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Prediction and head to head Belinda Bencic vs. Shuai Zhang

This will be the 2^nd time that Belinda Bencic and Shuai Zhang face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Zhang (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Zhang won 6-4 7-5 in the 2^nd round in the Port St. Lucie.

Belinda Bencic

Ranked no. 18, Bencic will start her run at the U.S. Open after she played her last match in Cincinnati where she lost 6-4 7-6(0) to Kudermetova in the 2^nd round on the 10^th of August.

The Swiss has a compiled 27-13 win-loss record in 2025, 19-8 on hard (See FULL STATS).

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

Talking about her overall career, Bencic has an overall 423-214 record. She has a positive 207-107 record on hard.

Previously at the U.S. Open

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

Shuai Zhang

Ranked no. 114, Zhang reached the 1^st round after beating Mary Stoiana 7-5 6-3, Darja Vidmanova 6-4 6-0 and Sijia Wei 6-1 6-3.

In the qualifications, Zhang had a good straight sets win against Wei (6-1 6-3). During the match Zhang scored 60 points vs Wei’s 37. The Chinese was very aggressive to blast 23 winners.

Talking about serving, Zhang wasn’t able to score even 1 ace for the entire match and she committed only 5 double faults. Shuai Zhang lost the serve once and she saved 2 break points. Furthermore, Zhang put 66% of her first serves in, winning 70% (23/33) of the points behind her 1st serve and 59% (10/17) on the 2nd serve. The Chinese broke Wei 5 times after converting 63% of her break points (5/8).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Shuai started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she hasn’t surrendered yet a set in this competition to conquer 59% of the points she played.

Her best result of the current year was conquering the title the W100 Gifu where she defeated Mananchaya Sawangkaew in the final 6-3 6-4 and the W50 Nottingham where she beat Harmony Tan in the final 6-4 6-2.

Shuai has an aggregate 23-9 win-loss record in 2025, 15-3 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the U.S. Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 4^th round in 2022. See her history.

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