Belinda Bencic was defeated in the fourth round of the 2023 Australian Open 2023 by eventual champion Aryna Sabalenka, but the young Swiss tennis star consoled herself by relaxing on the snow.
On Instagram, the beautiful player shared a photo of her relaxing in just a bathrobe as she gazes out at the snowy landscape from the window. An idyllic photo!
Belinda Bencic won the WTA Adeaide 2
Belinda Bencic started the season by winning the WTA Adelaide 2. Bencic defeated Daria Kasatkina in that final 6-0 6-2 to lift her first title of the year.
After the victory, she told: “I’m happy I could show my work here on the court. I thought I played some great matches from the start of the tournament and also against different kind of opponents so I really could test myself out there in every way and just go confidently into the Australian Open.”
Bencic broke Kasatkina three times, and she also didn’t allow the Russian a single game point in the first set. After absolutely dominating the first set, Bencic also broke Kasatkina in the very first game of the second set.
In the third game of the second set, Kasatkina had her first game points of the match and converted them to cut the deficit to 2-1. But it didn’t take long for Bencic to claim another break as she broke the Russian again in the fifth game to go 4-1 up in the second set.
In the seventh game, Kasatkina saved a championship point on her serve to cut the deficit to 5-2. Bencic didn’t realize her first championship point but routinely served out for the title in the eighth game.
During her career, Belinda has won seven WTA titles, including the Premier 5 in Toronto 2015 and Dubai 2019, plus two more titles in the WTA 125 circuit. In Grand Slam tournaments, her best result is the semifinal at the US Open 2019 Furthermore, in the same year, she qualified for the first time and at the same time reached the semifinals also at the WTA Finals. As for the WTA ranking, her best placement was the 4th world position on February 17, 2020. In doubles she instead boasts the position number 59 as her best placement, reached on 1 February 2016.
She represented Switzerland at the Tokyo Olympic Games, winning gold in singles and silver in doubles, with Viktorija Golubic.