Belinda Bencic is a Swiss professional tennis player. She has won two doubles on the WTA Tour in addition to six singles titles, including a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In February 2020, she attained her WTA Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) career-high No. 4 ranking.
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Age, birthday and birthplace
She was born on March 10, 1997 in Flawil, Switzerland. Bencic has been recognized as the WTA Comeback Player of the Year for the second consecutive year.
At the Dubai Championships, she won her second Premier-5 championship, and at the US Open, she made her first Grand Slam semifinal.
She finished inside the top 10 in the world for the first time in 2019 and won her maiden WTA Finals title.
Height and weight
The tennis super star stands at 5ft 9 inches tall and weighs approximately 63kg.
Bencic once held the junior world No. 1 ranking. In 2012, she participated in all of the major competitions with the exception of the Australian Open, making her junior Grand Slam debut.
She only managed to win two singles matches in total, but at Wimbledon and the US Open, she placed second in the doubles competition.
Nationality and ethnicity
She is a Swiss national by birth but both her parents come from Czechoslovakia.
They emigrated to Switzerland to escape from the cruelty of the then Soviet Union in 1968.
College and high school
Bencic attended schools where she could further enhance her tennis playing abilities.
She won the junior singles championships at Wimbledon and the French Open in 2012. Since Martina Hingis in 1994, she became the first Swiss girl to win a junior Grand Slam singles title.
Bencic again won all Grade 1 or higher awards, including three Grade A prizes in the Trofeo Bonfiglio. She won her first five tournaments in 2013 and increased her singles win streak to 39 wins.
Coach
She is currently being coached by the super-experienced tennis coach Sebastian Sachs.
World ranking and titles won
As of June 6, 2022, she holds the ranking of world number 17. She managed to reach her highest ranking of world number 4 back in February 2020.
Bencic has so far six singles and two doubles career titles under her belt.
Prize money
Her prize money according to her Wikipedia page and many other sources puts the figure at a whopping $10,159,369.
Net worth
The Swiss tennis player is currently worth more than $10 million.
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