Belinda Bencic and Yafan Wang will fight against each other in the 2^nd round of the Hong Kong Tennis Open for the 1^st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Thursday at 4:30 pm on CENTRE COURT. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

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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 -> 1.192
Yafan Wang -> 4.65

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Prediction and head to head Belinda Bencic vs. Yafan Wang

There is no head to head record between Belinda Bencic and Yafan Wang since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

Belinda Bencic

Ranked no. 11, Belinda reached the 2^nd round after defeating Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-3 6-4.

In the 1^st round, Bencic had a good straight sets win against Sasnovich (6-3 6-4). During the match, Bencic scored 67 points vs Sasnovich’s 53. The Swiss was extremely aggressive to blast 27 winners.

Talking about the service games, Bencic scored just 1 ace during the match and she committed only 1 double fault. Belinda Bencic lost the serve twice and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Bencic put 70% of her first serves in, winning 59% (27/46) of the points behind her 1st serve and 70% (14/20) on the 2nd serve. Belinda broke Sasnovich 4 times after converting 31% of her break points (4/13).

Bencic has a solid win-loss record in the last 10 years having won 66% of her matches (293-154). 30-12 on hard in 2025. Regarding her performance on the same surface of this tournament, Bencic has a compiled 155-84 record in the last years on hard.

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 and in Tokyo where she beat Linda Noskova in the final 6-2 6-3.

Bencic has an overall 38-17 win-loss record in 2025, 30-12 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously in Hong Kong

Belinda has never competed in this tournament before.

Yafan Wang

Ranked no. 298, the Chinese reached the 2^nd round after defeating Maddison Inglis 6-4 6-7(6) 6-3.

In the 1^st round, Yafan defeated Inglis (6-4 6-7⁶ 6-3). During the match Wang scored 108 points vs Inglis’s 98. The Chinese was pretty aggressive to blast 53 winners.

Talking about serving, Wang blasted 7 aces and she committed only 2 double faults. Yafan Wang lost the serve twice and she saved 4 break points. Furthermore, Wang put 64% of her first serves in, winning 75% (53/71) of the points behind her 1st serve and 45% (18/40) on the 2nd serve. Yafan was clinical in her return game without wasting any break point and break Inglis 4 times.

The Chinese has an overall 8-10 win-loss record in 2025, 8-10 on hard (See FULL STATS).

H2H Performance in the tournament

Matches, sets, games and points

Points	Bencic	Wang
Match played	1	1
Tot Set	2	3
Tot Games	19	32
Pts	67-53	108-98
Total Points	120	206
Winners	27	53
%Winners	40%	49%

Both Bencic and Wang played 1 match. At the moment, Yafan Wang lost 1 set while Belinda Bencic hasn’t dropped a set so far. Bencic has played 1 set(s) less than Wang (2 vs 3). Therefore, Bencic played 13 games less than Wang. Bencic scored 27 winners (40% of the total points). On the other side, Wang bagged 53 winners (49%).

Serve Performance

Serve	Bencic	Wang
Aces	1	7
Avg per match	1	7
1st in	46/66	71/111
%1st in	70%	64%
1st pts	27/46	53/71
%1st pts	59%	75%
2nd pts	14/20	18/40
%2nd pts	70%	45%

Bencic fired 1 ace . Wang also blasted 7 aces . Bencic won 59% points behind her first serve. She pretty solid on her second serve to win 70% of the points. On the other side, Wang won 75% of the points on her first serve. She had a solid display on her second serve to win 45% of the points.

How they played the important points

Breaks	Bencic	Wang
Won	4	4
Converted	4/13	4/4
% Converted	31%	100%
Conceded	7	6
Saved	5	4
% Saved	71%	67%
Times Broken	2	2

Belinda broke her opponent 4 times with a 31% conversion rate. Belinda surrendered her serve twice and she saved 71% of the break points that she conceded. Wang broke her opponent 4 times with a 100% conversion rate. Wang conceded her serve twice and she saved 67% of the break points that she conceded.

Bencic
	R1 Sasnovich	Total
Score	6-3 6-4
Tot Set	2	2
Tot Games	19	19
pts	67-53	67-53
Total points	120	120
Winners	27	27
%Winners	40%	40%
SERVE
Aces	1	1
Double Faults	1	1
1st in	46/66	46/66
% 1st in	70%	70%
1st pts	27/46	27/46
% 1st pts	59%	59%
2nd pts	14/20	14/20
% 2nd pts	70%	70%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/13	4/13
Converted %	31%	31%
Conceded	7	7
Saved	5/7	5
Saved %	71%	71%
Times Broken	2	2

Wang
	R1 Inglis	Total
Score	6-4 6-76 6-3
Tot Set	3	3
Tot Games	32	32
pts	108-98	108-98
Total points	206	206
Winners	53	53
%Winners	49%	49%
SERVE
Aces	7	7
Double Faults	2	2
1st in	71/111	71/111
% 1st in	64%	64%
1st pts	53/71	53/71
% 1st pts	75%	75%
2nd pts	18/40	18/40
% 2nd pts	45%	45%
Breaks
Won	4	4
Converted	4/4	4/4
Converted %	100%	100%
Conceded	6	6
Saved	4/6	4
Saved %	67%	67%
Times Broken	2	2

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