Tokyo Olympics: Belinda Bencic beats Marketa Vondrousova to turn into 1st Swiss girl to win Olympic tennis gold

World quantity 12 Belinda Bencic beat Czech Republic’s Marketa Vondrousova 7-5 2-6 6-3 on to win the Tokyo Games girls’s singles title, changing into the primary Swiss girl to earn an Olympic tennis gold. Belinda Bencic of Switzerland received the ladies’s Tennis singles gold. (Reuters Photo)HIGHLIGHTSBencic is 1st Swiss girl to earn an Olympic tennis goldBencic can even contest the ladies’s doubles gold-medal match on Sunday The consequence marks Belinda’s Bencic’s first title since Moscow 2019No.9 seed Belinda Bencic received Switzerland’s third Olympic tennis gold with a nail-biting 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 defeat of the unseeded Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic in two hours and half-hour on Saturday.

The 24-year-old Bencic, who prevailed in two hours and half-hour, can now full a set of gold medals when she and Viktorija Golubic face Czech No. 1 seed Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova within the doubles closing on Sunday.The consequence marks Belinda’s first title since Moscow 2019 after dropping each of her earlier finals this season, in Adelaide and Berlin. The 24-year-old trailed by an early break within the deciding set towards Marketa, however was in a position to execute her aggressive technique in key moments to seal the victory.Earlier, world No.6 Elina Svitolina received the bronze, rallying from 1-4 down within the closing set to defeat Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina, 1-6, 7-6(5), 6-4 and clinch Ukraine’s first-ever Olympic tennis medal.Playing in her second Olympics, Elina’s dedication was the story of her bronze-medal run. Four of her six matches have been received in a deciding set.Click right here for IndiaToday.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.