Such. The Swiss tennis player Belinda Bencic (12 in the world) became the new Olympic tennis champion this Saturday, after defeating the Czech Marketa Vondrousova (42 in the world), 7-5, 2-6 and 6-3 in the final in almost two and a half hours of the game.
Bencic, 24, succeeds Puerto Rican Mónica Puig, who won gold in Rio-2016, while Vondrousova must be content with silver and bronze went to Ukrainian Elina Svitolina.
Bencic achieves the most outstanding result of his career, which so far had a semifinal at the US Open (2019) as the greatest achievement, in addition to four WTA tournaments (Eastbourne, Toronto, Dubai and Moscow), the last two in 2019.
Both players started very nervous and in the first six games they had already broken serve twice each.
They then calmed down and improved their game to reach Game 12 with a chance for Vondrousova to force the tie break with his serve, but Bencic played very well in those moments and broke to close the first set.
In the second heat, the Swiss lost her kickoff and was already in tow of Vondrousova, who played her best tennis so far to take the match to the third set.
In that decisive set, Bencic risked more and was more aggressive, against a Vondrousova who had many problems to maintain the service due to her poor success with the first serve and who also committed many unforced errors.
With 4-3 in favor, Bencic again broke Vondrousova’s service and no longer let the gold medal slip away.
Before, the match for third place was played, in which Svitolina became, at 26 years old, the first tennis player to give an Olympic medal to her country in the sport of racket after defeating the Kazakh Elena Rybakina (20 in the world ) by 1-6, 7-6 (7/5) and 6-4.
The Ukrainian player, who recently married French tennis player Gael Monfils, had to come back a set against and 1-4 in the third set to end up winning, in the seventh ball she had to do so, in a disputed match that lasted two hours and 24 minutes.
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