Belinda Bencic

Belinda Bencic

Bencic at the 2023 US Open
Country (sports)	Switzerland
Residence	Wollerau, Switzerland
Born	(1997-03-10) 10 March 1997 (age 27)[1] Flawil, Switzerland
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Turned pro	2012
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	US$ $12,246,570
Singles
Career record	391–205
Career titles	8
Highest ranking	No. 4 (17 February 2020)
Current ranking	No. 481 (9 December 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 (2021)
Doubles
Career record	78–65
Career titles	2
Highest ranking	No. 59 (1 February 2016)
Current ranking	No. 663 (9 December 2024)
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 (2021)
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 Representing   Switzerland Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Singles 2020 Tokyo Doubles
Last updated on: 9 December 2024.

Belinda Bencic (Slovak: Belinda Benčičová,^[2] pronounced [ˈbelinda ˈbentʂitʂɔʋaː]; born 10 March 1997) is a Swiss tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of world No. 4 by the 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 [de] 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.