Bencic defeats Krejcikova in Prague, Switzerland and Czech Republic tied at 1-1 in Billie Jean King Cup Finals

In the first match, Marketa Vondrousova easily defeated Viktorija Golubic giving the Czech Republic the 1-0 lead. In the 2nd match, we saw heavyweights Krejcikova and Bencic battle it out with the Czech player having a chance to clinch it for her nation. However, Bencic would not let it as she put forward a strong performance to win the match 7-6(0) 6-4.

Bencic established herself as the better player rather early taking a 3-0 fairly easily. Krejcivako looked a bit shaky overhitting balls too much which is not something she tends to do often. She settled after that and winning a couple of games gave her confidence. That confidence came to light when she broke Bencic at the time the Swiss player served for the 2nd set.

It was 5-4 when Krejcikova served, having to save a set point in that game. After that, the match continued until the tiebreak where Bencic played amazingly. She won it 7-0 to secure the first set for her team. At the start of the 2nd set, both players broke each other and the score remained tied 1-1. Krejcikova continued to have issues and after failing to use break points at 2-2, Bencic finally found a breakthrough at 3-3.

She took the 4-3 lead and held from 15-40 down to secure the 5-3 lead. Bencic would go on to close out the match with 6-4 giving Switzerland a huge point. The winner of the tie will be decided in the doubles match which should begin shortly after this is finished.