Swiss tennis player Belinda Bencic won the women’s final at the Tokyo Olympics. The 24-year-old Belinda Bencic, ninth-seeded, defeated Czech player Marketa Vondrousova with 2-1 (7:5, 2:6, 6:3) in a contested match that lasted 2:28 hours.
The Swiss showed very strong nerves in the first set. After four breaks, which reached 5:5. Then Bencic won her serving game and took the lead with 6:5. She succeeded to make a break in the very mast game to win by 7:5.
Marketa Vondrousova came out transformed in the second part. She made an early break, then made it new for 4:1 and reached the clear win by 6:2.
The third set was again full of twists. First, Marketa Vondrousova broke through for 1:0, and then Belinda Bencic took the lead with 3:1. The Czech reacted and reached a 3:3 draw. Marketa Vondrousova was given the opportunity to break in the seventh game, but Belinda Bencic escaped and took the lead. The Swiss took a medical timeout, which distracted the opponent. Belinda Bencic pulled with 5:3 after a break on zero, and then saved four chances for a break and quite deservedly won the gold medal.
Belinda Bencic became only the fifth tennis player to reach the singles and doubles finals since returning of tennis in the Olympics Games in 1988. She and her partner Viktorija Golubic will face the Czechs Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova in the final doubles match.
Elina Svitolina won the bronze medal after defeating Elena Rybakina in three sets. The Ukrainian lost the first set with 1:6 and got a break in the third game of the second, but managed to find a way out of the difficult situation and reached a tiebreak. In it, she got the victory with 7:5. The third set again did not start well for Elina Svitolina, who lost her first service game, but later made a comeback and reached 6:4. The Ukrainian missed six match points in the dramatic final game, which lasted almost 10 minutes.
