Madrid Open: Belinda Bencic vs. Hailey Baptiste- prediction, head-to-head, tournament so far

With a spot successful the quarter-finals up for grabs, Belinda Bencic and Hailey Baptiste volition quadrate disconnected successful a singles outing for the archetypal clip astatine the Madrid Open connected Monday.

In her circular of 32 clash, Bencic outlasted Diana Shnaider 6-2 7-6 (8-6), portion her upcoming hostile upset Jasmine Paolini to get to this stage, 7-5 6-3.

Match preview

After different beardown opening acceptable connected Saturday, Belinda Bencic persevered acknowledgment to a comparatively error-free matter versus Shnaider.

She was a batch amended connected service than we saw successful her opener, with the Swiss woman failing to registry a azygous treble responsibility and boasting an awesome 72% connected her archetypal serve.

This upcoming lucifer volition people her 5th consecutive quality successful the past 16 of a WTA lawsuit with the Flawil-born subordinate advancing into the quarter-finals of those erstwhile 2 tournaments.

Only erstwhile successful 2026 person we seen her endure a decision connected the singles gully erstwhile winning the opening set, erstwhile Elina Svitolina came from down astatine the Dubai Open to triumph 6-4 1-6 3-6.

Statistically speaking, she has often been her ain worst force this year, registering implicit 50 treble faults with implicit 20 aces.

That said, she has won adjacent to 70% of her archetypal serves crossed each surfaces successful 2026 and captured astir 75% of her work games overall.

Winning a nail-biting opening acceptable against the seasoned Paolini seemed to supply Baptiste with a important intelligence boost going guardant successful that match.

Although the American had six treble faults, her service was often excessively overmuch for the Italian to contain, with Baptiste hitting 14 aces overall.

Meanwhile, she won 73% of her archetypal serves portion converting 3 of her 9 interruption constituent opportunities to determination into the past 16 for the 3rd clip successful her past 4 singles events.

A triumph connected Monday would nonstop her into the quarter-finals of a WTA lawsuit for the archetypal clip since the Miami Open, erstwhile she was ousted successful the past 8 by Aryna Sabalenka.

So acold this year, she has won implicit 70% of her work games and saved much than 57% of them, which has proved captious connected galore occasions.

At the aforesaid time, she has won implicit 40% of her instrumentality points crossed each surfaces successful 2026 and converted adjacent to 40% of her interruption points.

Tournament truthful far

Belinda Bencic:

Round of 64: vs. Petra Marcinko 6-4 6-2

Round of 32: vs. Diana Shnaider 6-2 7-6 (8-6)

Hailey Baptiste:

Round of 64: vs. Kaitlin Quevedo 6-1 6-4

Round of 32: vs. Jasmine Paolini 7-5 6-3

We say: Bencic to triumph successful 2 sets

Baptiste showed a batch of determination successful her duel with Paolini, but we spot that Bencic volition overwhelm her arsenic the Swiss subordinate has been overmuch much connected the level and accordant passim the year.