Belinda Bencic’s comeback from maternity leave to another massive step forward on Wednesday at Wimbledon, as the former Top 10 player ousted No. 7 seed Mirra Andreeva in a pair of tiebreaks to reach her second career Grand Slam semifinal.
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The 28-year-old Swiss needed 2 hours and 7 minutes to score her 38th career Top 10 win — but just her second at Wimbledon — to match her deepest-ever run at a Grand Slam event. In her first meeting with Andreeva, who is 10 years her junior, the former World No. 4 lost serve only once — and it came when she first attempted to seal victory at 5-4 in the second set.
Bencic’s first major semifinal — a loss to Bianca Andreescu at the 2019 US Open — came five years and 309 days ago, making her run to the last four at The Championships the fifth-longest gap between Grand Slam semifinals in the Open Era.
More to come…