WTA: Bencic – “Like a tiger in a cage”

Belinda Bencic starts the coming season again in the top 100. The Swiss player has returned to the tournament with minor successes.

Actually, Belinda Bencic won the ITF tournament in St. Gallen. St. Petersburg a few months ago, one surprise after another: After all, the Swiss was the 312th player in the world to enter the event, and from round two until the final match against Ukrainian Dayana Yasremka only had opponents in front of her, who were placed in the world rankings ahead of her.

In fact, however, the 20-year-old can still play on a level that has already reached the top ten ladies in the world. Before there were setbacks due to injury and the crash in the world rankings.

Bencic is currently in 98th place there, due to two WTA-125k successes in Hua Hin and Taipei. At the Upper Austria Open in Linz, Bencic was well on the way with a wildcard, had won two rounds, lost in the quarter-finals in the tiebreak of the third set Mihaela Buzarnescu from Romania.

But the key to the Renaissance would be in St. Peter’s. Petersburg, Bencic told BTU.

“I haven’t played the whole tournament without pressure, I’ve become more and more relaxed and have played better and better”, Bencic says,”I don’t know at the moment exactly where my 100 percent is, because I’ve become a different person and another player” The inactive time at home wasn’t good for her anyway “I felt like a tiger in a cage. I almost went crazy, but now I’m quieter on the court.”