WTA Charleston | 04/10 17:30 | 29 | [10] Ons Jabeur v Belinda Bencic [21] | 1-6,7-5,4-6 | |
WTA Charleston | 04/09 17:30 | 28 | Ekaterina Alexandrova v Belinda Bencic | 4-6,3-6 | |
WTA Charleston | 04/08 17:30 | 27 | [21] Belinda Bencic v Paula Badosa [3] | 2-6,7-6,6-4 | |
WTA Charleston | 04/07 17:25 | 26 | [24] Madison Keys v Belinda Bencic [21] | 4-6,4-6 | |
WTA Charleston | 04/06 19:00 | 25 | [188] Linda Fruhvirtova v Belinda Bencic [21] | 1-6,6-7 | |
WTA Charleston | 04/05 15:00 | 24 | [149] Xiyu Wang v Belinda Bencic [21] | 6-4,6-7,3-6 | |
WTA Miami | 03/31 19:25 | 28 | [28] Belinda Bencic v Naomi Osaka [77] | 6-4,3-6,4-6 | |
WTA Miami | 03/29 19:35 | 27 | [28] Belinda Bencic v Daria Saville [249] | 6-1,6-2 | |
WTA Miami | 03/28 21:10 | 26 | [60] Aliaksandra Sasnovich v Belinda Bencic [28] | 2-6,3-6 | |
WTA Miami | 03/26 15:00 | 25 | [28] Belinda Bencic v Heather Watson [115] | 6-4,6-1 | |
WTA Miami | 03/24 22:50 | 24 | [28] Belinda Bencic v Marta Kostyuk [55] | 6-3,6-1 | |
WTA Indian Wells | 03/12 02:25 | 24 | [63] Kaia Kanepi v Belinda Bencic [25] | 6-4,6-3 | |
WTA Doha | 02/20 12:30 | 24 | [24] Belinda Bencic v Clara Tauson [33] | 4-6,6-3,3-6 | |
WTA St. Petersburg | 02/11 16:50 | 27 | [24] Belinda Bencic v Anett Kontaveit [9] | 6-7,2-6 | |
WTA St. Petersburg | 02/09 17:10 | 26 | [24] Belinda Bencic v Kaja Juvan [102] | 6-1,7-6 | |
WTA St. Petersburg | 02/07 17:00 | 25 | [24] Belinda Bencic v Veronika Kudermetova [29] | 6-2,4-6,7-6 | |
Australian Open Women | 01/19 06:00 | 24 | [22] Belinda Bencic v Amanda Anisimova [60] | 2-6,5-7 | |
Australian Open Women | 01/17 00:00 | 23 | [22] Belinda Bencic v Kristina Mladenovic [88] | 6-4,6-3 | |
WTA Sydney | 01/13 07:45 | 27 | [9] Paula Badosa v Belinda Bencic [23] | 7-6,3-6,6-3 | |
WTA Sydney | 01/12 04:25 | 26 | [96] Oceane Dodin v Belinda Bencic [23] | 6-2,5-7,3-6 | |
WTA Sydney | 01/11 01:40 | 25 | [23] Belinda Bencic v Beatriz Haddad Maia [88] | 6-3,6-2 | |
WTA Sydney | 01/11 00:00 | 25 | Belinda Bencic v Barbora Krejcikova | Cancelled | |
Mubadala World Tennis Championship Women | 12/16 16:00 | - | [10] Ons Jabeur v Belinda Bencic [23] | 4-6,6-3,10-8 | |
Billie Jean King Cup | 11/06 16:35 | 29 | [40] Liudmila Samsonova v Belinda Bencic [17] | 3-6,6-3,6-4 | |
Billie Jean King Cup | 11/05 18:45 | 28 | [43] Ajla Tomljanovic v Belinda Bencic [17] | 3-6,2-6 | |
Billie Jean King Cup | 11/04 17:40 | 2 | [3] Barbora Krejcikova v Belinda Bencic [17] | 6-7,4-6 | |
Billie Jean King Cup | 11/02 17:50 | 2 | [9] Angelique Kerber v Belinda Bencic [17] | 7-5,2-6,2-6 | |
WTA Indian Wells | 10/08 20:35 | 24 | Belinda Bencic v Shelby Rogers | Cancelled | |
WTA Chicago | 10/01 20:20 | 27 | [12] Belinda Bencic v Elena Rybakina [17] | Retired | |
WTA Chicago | 09/30 19:35 | 26 | [12] Belinda Bencic v Tereza Martincova [53] | 6-2,7-6 |
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.