Belinda Bencic and Varvara Gracheva will play each other in the 2nd round of the Toray Pan Pacific Open for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 10:30 am on CENTER COURT. 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 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Belinda Bencic is the pick to win this match.
Belinda Bencic -> 1.285
Varvara Gracheva -> 3.62

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Prediction and head to head Belinda Bencic vs. Varvara Gracheva

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

Belinda Bencic

Belinda Bencic

33 - 17win/loss

Hard
25-12
I Hard
0-0
Clay
3-3
Grass
5-2
Rank
11
High
4
WWWWWWLWWL
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. 13, the Swiss will start her run in Tokyo after she played her last match in Ningbo where she lost 5-7 7-5 6-3 to Paolini in the quarter on the 17th of October.

The Swiss has an overall 33-17 win-loss record in 2025, 25-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

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, The Swiss has an overall 429-218 record. She has a positive 213-111 record on hard.

Previously in Tokyo

Previously, her best result was reaching the final in 2015. See her history.

Tokyo
Bencic's Record

Varvara Gracheva

Varvara Gracheva

34 - 27win/loss

Hard
20-13
I Hard
1-3
Clay
9-8
Grass
4-3
Rank
80
High
39
LWWWLWWLWW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2025 34-28 20-14 9-8 1-3 4-3 0-0
2024 29-28 13-15 15-10 0-1 1-2 0-0
2023 36-30 23-18 7-6 3-3 3-3 0-0
2022 29-32 7-11 12-14 10-7 0-0 0-0
2021 27-31 11-10 7-10 9-9 0-2 0-0

Ranked no. 82, the French player reached the 2nd round after defeating Emiliana Arango 6-2 2-6 7-5, Maddison Inglis 6-3 6-1 and Xinyu Wang 4-6 6-3 6-4.

In the 1st round against Wang, Gracheva recovered from a 1-set down deficit before winning (4-6 6-3 6-4).During the match Gracheva scored less points (2) than Wang. In fact, the world no. 13 won 92 points vs Wang’s. That means that Gracheva was more focused during the important points. The French player was extremely aggressive to blast 35 winners.

About the serving games, Gracheva blasted 2 aces and she committed only 3 double faults. Varvara Gracheva lost the serve 5 times and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Gracheva put 65% of her first serves in, winning 55% (35/64) of the points behind her 1st serve and 54% (19/35) on the 2nd serve. Gracheva broke Wang 6 times after converting 46% of her break points (6/13).

The French player best result of the season was reaching the semifinal in the Paris and Eastbourne.

The French player has an overall 34-27 win-loss record in 2025, 20-13 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Tokyo

Previously, her best result was reaching the 2nd round in 2024. See her history.

Tokyo
Gracheva's Record

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