US Open Women | 09/03 22:00 | 25 | [22] Karolina Pliskova v Belinda Bencic [13] | 5-7,6-4,6-3 | |
US Open Women | 09/01 15:00 | 24 | [37] Sorana Cirstea v Belinda Bencic [13] | 6-3,5-7,2-6 | |
US Open Women | 08/30 18:45 | 23 | [104] Andrea Petkovic v Belinda Bencic [13] | 2-6,6-4,4-6 | |
WTA Cincinnati | 08/16 15:00 | 24 | [11] Belinda Bencic v Sorana Cirstea [40] | 2-6,7-6,4-6 | |
WTA Toronto | 08/12 23:00 | 27 | [24] Beatriz Haddad Maia v Belinda Bencic [12] | 2-6,6-3,6-3 | |
WTA Toronto | 08/12 02:15 | 26 | [12] Belinda Bencic v Garbine Muguruza [8] | 6-1,6-3 | |
WTA Toronto | 08/10 23:00 | 25 | [12] Belinda Bencic v Serena Williams [407] | 6-2,6-4 | |
WTA Toronto | 08/09 21:00 | 24 | [12] Belinda Bencic v Tereza Martincova [71] | 6-4,6-2 | |
WTA Toronto | 08/09 14:00 | 24 | Belinda Bencic v Victoria Azarenka | Cancelled | |
WTA Lausanne | 07/15 16:25 | 27 | [85] Petra Martic v Belinda Bencic [13] | 6-3,7-6 | |
WTA Lausanne | 07/14 15:30 | 26 | [229] Susan Bandecchi v Belinda Bencic [13] | 3-6,4-6 | |
WTA Lausanne | 07/12 17:05 | 25 | [77] Diane Parry v Belinda Bencic [13] | 6-3,3-6,1-6 | |
Wimbledon Women | 06/27 18:20 | 23 | [16] Belinda Bencic v Qiang Wang [140] | 4-6,7-5,2-6 | |
WTA Bad Homburg | 06/21 08:00 | 25 | Sabine Lisicki v Belinda Bencic | Cancelled | |
WTA Berlin | 06/19 13:30 | 29 | [4] Ons Jabeur v Belinda Bencic [17] | Retired | |
WTA Berlin | 06/18 09:00 | 28 | [17] Belinda Bencic v Maria Sakkari [6] | 6-7,6-4,6-4 | |
WTA Berlin | 06/17 10:30 | 27 | [17] Belinda Bencic v Veronika Kudermetova [24] | 3-6,6-3,6-3 | |
WTA Berlin | 06/16 10:50 | 26 | [17] Belinda Bencic v Anna Kalinskaya [81] | 6-4,1-6,6-1 | |
WTA Berlin | 06/14 10:40 | 25 | [17] Belinda Bencic v Jule Niemeier [96] | 6-4,5-7,6-3 | |
WTA Hertogenbosch | 06/10 09:00 | 27 | [24] Veronika Kudermetova v Belinda Bencic [17] | 6-4,6-2 | |
WTA Hertogenbosch | 06/09 12:45 | 26 | [86] Anna Kalinskaya v Belinda Bencic [17] | 6-7,4-6 | |
WTA Hertogenbosch | 06/07 11:05 | 25 | [56] Madison Brengle v Belinda Bencic [17] | 4-6,3-6 | |
French Open Women | 05/27 10:00 | 25 | [14] Belinda Bencic v Leylah Fernandez [18] | 5-7,6-3,5-7 | |
French Open Women | 05/25 16:20 | 24 | [14] Belinda Bencic v Bianca Andreescu [72] | 6-2,6-4 | |
French Open Women | 05/22 17:00 | 23 | [14] Belinda Bencic v Reka-Luca Jani [145] | 6-1,6-1 | |
WTA Rome | 05/11 09:00 | 25 | [14] Belinda Bencic v Amanda Anisimova [32] | 6-7,1-6 | |
WTA Rome | 05/09 14:45 | 24 | [14] Belinda Bencic v Elisabetta Cocciaretto [159] | 6-4,6-2 | |
WTA Madrid | 05/02 11:35 | 26 | [10] Ons Jabeur v Belinda Bencic [13] | 6-2,3-6,6-2 | |
WTA Madrid | 04/30 13:25 | 25 | [67] Karolina Muchova v Belinda Bencic [13] | 3-6,6-4,5-7 | |
WTA Madrid | 04/28 11:45 | 24 | [62] Irina-Camelia Begu v Belinda Bencic [13] | 4-6,1-6 |
Belinda Bencic (Slovak: Belinda Benčičová, 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.