{"id":356043,"date":"2025-12-19T18:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/356043\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:51:09","slug":"bencic-will-return-to-charleston-in-2026-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/356043\/","title":{"rendered":"Bencic Will Return to Charleston in 2026 \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2022 champion and world No.4 Belinda will return to the low country in 2026. Bencic, who rose over 400 spots in this year\u2019s WTA rankings in a season that saw her win two titles and reach the Wimbledon final after returning from maternity leave, made her initial debut in Charleston in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\"  data-\/><\/a>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>Bencic, 28, was named the WTA\u2019s Comeback Player of the Year in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss reached back-to-back finals appearances against Ons Jabeur, culminating in her championship win in 2022. The Credit One Charleston Open will take place from March 28\u2013April 5, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>2021 Olympic Gold medalist Bencic has already been joined by World No. 6 Jessica Pegula, World No. 7 Madison Keys, and World No. 15 Emma Navarro\u00a0in the field.<\/p>\n<p>Bencic has played Charleston eight times, compiling an 18\u20137 career record on the green clay. She made her initial splash in 2014, reaching the semifinals as a teenager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2022 champion and world No.4 Belinda will return to the low country in 2026. Bencic, who rose over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-356043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356043","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=356043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}