Federer leads tennis community in celebrating Bencic Olympic Games gold medal triumph
WTASaturday, 31 July 2021 at 19:45
Belinda Bencic made history after becoming the first woman to win gold for Switzerland in tennis at the Olympic Games with a 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 win over Marketa Vondrousova.
Bencic could make more as she is in the women's doubles final alongside Viktorija Golubic facing Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova on Sunday.
Roger Federer was one of the first to celebrate the triumph of Bencic with the legendary Swiss ace keeping a watchful eye on her progress this tournament.
Read also
Monica Puig, Petra Kvitova and Billie Jean King also were amongst those who celebrated the triumph all posting on social media.
Just In
Popular News
Latest Comments
- Who is making up these rankings btw?
AceOfBase23-11-2024 - Paolini remarkably low. Must have won tons of matches against lower ranked players. Kind of like these rankings. Seem to be more fair.MrAndreeva23-11-2024
- Why does Tennisuptodate feel like her PR Department's constant deluge of daily/weekly media submissions are 'tennis news' ?
mandoist19-11-2024 - 'Apologies', in cases like this where people are caught being their True Selves, are best shoved up their butts.mandoist19-11-2024
- Paolini playing Swiatek and then has to come back an hour later to play doubles. The BJ Cup is like the rest of tennis entrepreneurs.PalopoDave18-11-2024
