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![]() Bencic at the 2023 US Open | |||||||||||||||
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Residence | Wollerau, Switzerland | ||||||||||||||
Born | [1] Flawil, Switzerland | 10 March 1997||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||
Turned pro | 2012 | ||||||||||||||
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) | ||||||||||||||
Prize money | US$ 12,222,332 | ||||||||||||||
Singles | |||||||||||||||
Career record | 384–203 | ||||||||||||||
Career titles | 8 | ||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | No. 4 (17 February 2020) | ||||||||||||||
Current ranking | No. 138 (22 July 2024) | ||||||||||||||
Grand Slam singles results | |||||||||||||||
Australian Open | 4R (2016, 2023) | ||||||||||||||
French Open | 3R (2019, 2022) | ||||||||||||||
Wimbledon | 4R (2015, 2018, 2023) | ||||||||||||||
US Open | SF (2019) | ||||||||||||||
Other tournaments | |||||||||||||||
Tour Finals | SF (2019) | ||||||||||||||
Olympic Games | W (2020) | ||||||||||||||
Doubles | |||||||||||||||
Career record | 76–64 | ||||||||||||||
Career titles | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | No. 59 (1 February 2016) | ||||||||||||||
Grand Slam doubles results | |||||||||||||||
Australian Open | 2R (2016, 2023) | ||||||||||||||
French Open | 3R (2015) | ||||||||||||||
Wimbledon | 2R (2014, 2015, 2022) | ||||||||||||||
US Open | 1R (2014, 2015, 2016, 2018) | ||||||||||||||
Other doubles tournaments | |||||||||||||||
Olympic Games | F (2020) | ||||||||||||||
Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |||||||||||||||
Wimbledon | 3R (2014) | ||||||||||||||
US Open | 2R (2021) | ||||||||||||||
Team competitions | |||||||||||||||
Fed Cup | W (2022) Record: 23–8 | ||||||||||||||
Hopman Cup | W (2018, 2019) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Last updated on: 28 July 2024. |
Belinda Bencic (Slovak: Belinda Benčičová,[2] pronounced [ˈbelinda ˈbentʂitʂɔʋaː]; born 10 March 1997) is an inactive Swiss tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of No. 4 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) which she achieved in February 2020. Bencic has won eight career singles titles, including a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and two doubles titles on the WTA Tour.
Bencic was born in Switzerland to Slovak parents; she began playing tennis at the age of two. Her father arranged for her to train with Martina Hingis's mother and coach Melanie Molitor daily from the age of seven. By the time she was 16, Bencic was the No. 1 ranked junior in the world and won two junior Grand Slam singles titles at the French Open and Wimbledon. On the professional tour, she made her top 100 debut shortly after turning 17. Her big breakthrough came at the 2014 US Open, where she became the youngest quarterfinalist since Hingis in 1997. Bencic won her first two WTA Tour titles in 2015, including the Canadian Open where she defeated four of the top six players in the world. She then made her top-ten debut the following year while still 18 years old.
From 2016 through 2018, Bencic struggled with a variety of injury issues, most notably needing to have wrist surgery in 2017 that kept her out for five months and saw her drop outside the top 300 in the WTA rankings. Nonetheless, she rebounded quickly and rose back into the top 50 within a year of her comeback. She then posted her best season to date in 2019, winning her second Premier-5 title at the Dubai Championships reaching her first Grand Slam semifinal at the US Open, qualifying for her first WTA Finals where she reached the semifinals, and finishing the year inside the top 10 for the first time, which helped her win the WTA Comeback Player of the Year award.