"Belinda Bencic Regresa al Tenis: Su Desafío de Volver al Tour WTA tras la Maternidad" - The Athletic

Una victoria contundente en el último torneo de preparación antes de un Gran Slam no parece ser una ocasión para que una medallista olímpica exprese incredulidad. Sin embargo, en Adelaida, tras un triunfo por 6-2, 1-0 (ret.) sobre la clasificación número 14 del mundo, Anna Kalinskaya, Belinda Bencic se encuentra confundida.

Bencic isn’t returning from a long injury. She’s done that already, recovering from wrist surgery and a five-month layoff in 2017 to rise from the 300s to a high of world No. 4 and then that Olympic gold in Tokyo in 2021, where she beat Marketa Vondrousova in the final. She’s doing what so many women do outside of tennis, but has until recently been a rarity in the upper echelons of the sport: coming back from a career break during which she gave birth to her first child, Bella in April 2024.

“I’m really confident about getting back to where I was and even better,” she said in a recent interview via Zoom from Slovakia, where both her parents are from.