Tokyo 2020: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova vs. Belinda Bencic 7/28/21 Tennis Prediction

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova meets Belinda Bencic in the quarter final of Tokyo 2020 on Wednesday, July 28th, 2021.

Will Belinda Bencic show us her tennis of old as she aims to get herself far in a tournament to continue her redemption season strongly, or will Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova continue to shine over the last few months because she is at her peak currently?

Belinda Bencic had to fight right until the end in her third round match, beating Barbora Krejcikova who has been in great form in 3 sets 1-6/6-2/6-3. Belinda Bencic is showing us that we should not count her out as she is definitely still a star for the future even after all of her inconsistency and injury issues which have prevented her from reaching her potential so far. Belinda Bencic will be happy that she is coming back to her best, but she will also know that she is going to have a very tough opponent in the quarter finals in Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova put on a dominant performance in the third round, beating Sara Sorribes Tormo, who had knocked out Ashleigh Barty this week, in straight sets 6-1/6-3. Anastasia knows that she is a much more consistent player than she used to be because she has been able to get herself far in tournaments more often than usual this year. Anastasia wants to bring a medal home to Russia but she is going to have to be at her absolute best as she has to fight off the very talented Belinda Bencic.

This is going to be the 7^th meeting between both players, with Belinda Bencic having won 4 of their 6 prior encounters. Both of them have shown amazing tennis all week and they are both deserving of a semi final spot, but when it comes to who has beaten the bigger opponents this week, I have to back Belinda. Belinda is working hard to get back to her best and she has more motivation in herself to get the job done here in Tokyo. Anastasia will keep things tight, but Belinda will come through this match.