The 21st century
Switzerland · born Flawil, 1997 · right-handed · Wimbledon girls' champion 2013 · Eastbourne champion 2015
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2013
Wimbledon girls' singles champion
18
Her age as Eastbourne's youngest champion, 2015
2025
First Wimbledon semi-final
3
WTA grass finals lost, 2015 to 2022
Born in Flawil, Switzerland, on 10 March 1997 to parents from Czechoslovakia, Bencic trained from 2004 to 2012 at the academy of Melanie Molitor, Martina Hingis's mother. In 2013 she won the French and Wimbledon girls' titles. She reached the US Open quarter-finals at 17, rose to world No. 4 in 2020 and won the Olympic singles gold in Tokyo, the first Swiss woman to do so, with silver in the doubles. She won the Hopman Cup with Roger Federer in 2018 and 2019 and helped Switzerland to its first Billie Jean King Cup in 2022. She returned in October 2024 after the birth of her daughter and was back in the top 10 in 2026. A right ankle injury kept her out of Queen's and Berlin in 2026, and Coco Gauff beat her in the fourth round at Wimbledon.
| Wimbledon singles | Semi-final 2025; fourth round 2015, 2018, 2023 and 2026; third round 2014 and 2019 |
|---|---|
| Wimbledon 2025 | Beat Ekaterina Alexandrova in the fourth round and Mirra Andreeva 7-6, 7-6 in the quarter-final; lost the semi-final to Iga ÅšwiÄ…tek 6-2, 6-0 |
| Grass title | Eastbourne 2015: beat Agnieszka Radwańska 6-4, 4-6, 6-0 in the final, unseeded and ranked 31st |
| Grass finals lost | 's-Hertogenbosch 2015 to Camila Giorgi; Mallorca 2019 to Sofia Kenin, after holding three match points; Berlin 2022 to Ons Jabeur, retiring at 6-3, 2-1 with an ankle injury |
| Junior | Wimbledon girls' champion 2013: beat Taylor Townsend 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 in the final |
| Eastbourne | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Women's singles | |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. †single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"I'm so happy to play on the grass. I never feel really tired or not motivated."
The person behind the player.
Switzerland, childhood
She hit her first tennis balls at two and trained with her father from four. Her first national tournament ended without a single game won. Her father's response was to set her a modest target for the next one: two games a set. By June 2013 she was the junior world No. 1.
Source: WikipediaEastbourne 2015
She had not won a set in either of her two previous WTA finals. At Eastbourne, unseeded, she beat Madison Keys and Johanna Konta, and Eugenie Bouchard and Caroline Wozniacki both retired against her. In the final Radwańska led 3-0 in the second set and levelled the match; Bencic took the third 6-0.
Source: WTAWimbledon 2025 · Quarter-final
She studied Mirra Andreeva, the world No. 7, the night before their quarter-final. The first break of serve did not come until an hour and 44 minutes in, and she finished the 7-6, 7-6 win with a smash after two hours and ten minutes. It was, she said, only her third match on Centre Court.
Source: blue NewsWimbledon 2025 · Semi-final
Iga ÅšwiÄ…tek beat her 6-2, 6-0 in an hour and 12 minutes. Bencic did not look for excuses: "I definitely felt like she was completely on fire." To win, she said, "I would have had to play my best tennis of my life and risk every shot."
Source: TennisheadWimbledon 2026 · Fourth round
Seeded 11th, she took the first set from Coco Gauff on her third set point. Gauff came back to win 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, finishing about two minutes before the 11pm curfew. Bencic hit 19 winners to Gauff's 35. The win gave Gauff her first Wimbledon quarter-final.
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