Belinda Bencic
9 seed Belinda Bencic won Switzerland’s third Olympic tennis gold medal by defeating unseeded Marketa Vondrosova of Czech Republic 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 in two hours and 30 minutes on Saturday.
Earlier, Mark Rosset won gold in men’s singles at Barcelona 1992 and Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka teamed up to win men’s doubles in Beijing 2008. In addition, Federer was the men’s singles silver medalist at London 2012, while Timea Basinski and Martina Hingis captured silver in the women’s doubles at Rio 2016.
This is Belinda’s first title since Moscow 2019 after losing both her previous finals in Adelaide and Berlin this season. The 24-year-old fell short of the opening break in the deciding set against Marca but was able to execute her offensive strategy at crucial moments to seal the win.
Earlier, world number 6 Elina Svitolina won the bronze medal after going 1-4 down in the final set to beat Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybkina 1-6, 7-6(5), 6-4 and became Ukraine’s first. Won Olympic Tennis. medal
Playing in her second Olympics, Alina’s determination was the story of her bronze medal race. Four of his six matches were won in deciding sets.
Alina defeated Germany’s Laura Sijmund, Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic, Greece’s Maria Sakkari and Italy’s Camila Giorgi to go down to the Czech Republic’s Marka Vondrosova in the semi-finals.
Against Rybakina, who went on to win the tournament without losing a set before the semi-finals, Alina grafted for 2 hours 24 minutes, which was still the third longest match played this week.
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In the first set, Alina managed just five points from her three service games. After beating Alina 2–1 in 10 minutes of play, Rybakina overtook the Ukrainian’s serve to pocket the opener in 28 minutes.
After falling behind the opening break in the second set, Alina dug deep into her reserves to make a good comeback and win the set. The final set was a tough one as Elina trailed 1-4 to beat her opponent 6-4 to win the bronze medal.
In her previous Olympic appearance in 2016, Alina defeated Germany’s Andrea Petkovic, Great Britain’s Heather Watson and American star Serena Williams to reach the quarterfinals and eventually lost to bronze medalist Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic.
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