Belinda Bencic

Belinda Bencic is a Swiss professional tennis player, born in Flawil in northeastern Switzerland on 10 March 1997 to parents who were both born in Czechoslovakia; her father was a professional ice hockey player and her mother a high-level handball player. A former junior world No. 1, she won two junior major singles titles in 2013, at the French Open and Wimbledon. She became the youngest US Open quarterfinalist since Martina Hingis in 2014, won her first two WTA Tour titles in 2015 including the Canadian Open, and made her top-ten debut the following year aged 18. After injuries pushed her outside the top 300, she had her best season in 2019, reaching her first major semifinal at the US Open. Her biggest title is the gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where she also won silver in the women's doubles. She has won ten Tour singles titles, was ranked as high as world No. 4, and returned from maternity leave in 2024.