Belinda Bencic beats Giorgi and advances to second week at Australian Open

The match between Belinda Bencic and Camila Giorgi it looked very tough on paper but it is the former through to the second week at the Australian Open.

The Swiss player had achieved comfortable victories to reach the third round after wins over Victoria Tomova and Claire Liu, both in two sets.

By the other hand, Giorgi drew the first two rounds after effortless victories against Schmiedlova and Pavlyuchenkova. Actually, the victory over the Russian was an impressive 6-0, 6-1.

The Italian, ranked 70th in the world, hasn’t had great results since she achieved her first WTA 1000 in Montreal 2021, also she started the season with a first round loss against Romanian Sorana Cirstea in Adelaide. Despite that, she arrives at the game with Bencic with a great level

At the beginning of the match, the two players started with an aggressive game, but the Italian wasn't accurate at the important points, with several unforced errors. In this way, Bencic took advantage to win the first set 6-2.

in the second set the singles gold medallist at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic quickly took the lead, but Giorgi raised the level considerably and hit several winners. The 12th seed went 5-4 and served to win the match, but Camila Giorgi broke the serve and extended the match. Despite this, the Italian was unable to ratify her service. Even she fought until the end of the match, Giorgi had no answers to Bencic consistency, who ended up winning the match by 6-2, 7-5.

Belinda had a decent first serve percentage of 61% , with 69% effectiveness, while Camila had a 67% first serve, but only won 49% of those.

Now the Swiss is in the fourth round and wait for the winner of the match between Aryna Sabalenka and Elise Mertens.