{"id":251725,"date":"2025-10-31T06:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/251725\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T06:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T06:21:08","slug":"belinda-bencic-a-statement-return-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/251725\/","title":{"rendered":"Belinda Bencic: A statement return in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow WTA pro Jaimee Fourlis spotlighted Bencic\u2019s remarkable year on this week\u2019s episode of The Tennis, praising the consistency which has seen Bencic rewarded with one of the biggest ranking rises on tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBelinda Bencic has had an incredible year since giving birth to her daughter, Bella,\u201d Fourlis said, as the Swiss nears her 40th match win this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s incredible the amount of tennis she has played this year and consistently beating top-20 players, top-10 players.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Returning to the site of her Olympic gold medal run from 2021, Bencic defeated fellow top-20 talent Linda Noskova 6-2 6-3 in the recent Tokyo final.<\/p>\n<p>That title placed her on the cusp of a return to the WTA top 10, a position in which she found herself consistently from 2019 until her break from tennis to start a family.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ausopen.com\/articles\/news\/clijsters-im-so-ready-new-mum-hold-grand-slam-trophy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLIJSTERS: &#8220;I&#8217;m so ready for a new mum to hold a Grand Slam trophy\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The way Bencic has been able to rediscover some of her best tennis, so quickly, is truly remarkable \u2013 all while competing each month this year and steadily improving her ranking throughout.<\/p>\n<p>With Bencic joined by Naomi Osaka and Elina Svitolina in the top 20, these WTA superstars are shattering the old narrative that athletes cannot return to their peak after having a child \u2013 an inspiration for every player regardless of the path they choose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fellow WTA pro Jaimee Fourlis spotlighted Bencic\u2019s remarkable year on this week\u2019s episode of The Tennis, praising the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-251725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}