Bencic started playing at the top of her game from a very young age, breaking into the WTA top 10 at just 18 years of age.
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Born in Switzerland to Slovak parents, Belinda Bencic can almost be looked at as a prodigy of former world no. 1 and Swiss-Slovak tennis legend, Martina Higgins. Bencic began playing tennis when she was only two years old and by the time she turned 16, had established herself as the top-rated junior women’s player in the world. She won two junior Grand Slam titles during that time, Roland Garros and Wimbledon. Since she turned professional, Bencic has won six singles titles and two doubles titles. One of those include an Olympic gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Bencic started playing at the top of her game from a very young age, breaking into the WTA top 10 at just 18 years of age. Her career-best ranking so far has been fourth.
One feather that Bencic is yet to add to her cap is a Grand Slam title. Her best Grand Slam performance came at the 2019 US Open where she went as far as the semi-finals. At the Australian Open and Wimbledon, she has gone as far as the second round and at Roland Garros, just the first round. However, what she has in her trophy cabinet is something very few others can boast of. At the Tokyo Olympics, Bencic defeated the likes of Barbora Krejcikova, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Elena Rybakina and Marketa Vondrousova to claim a singles gold medal. She also earned the silver medal in the women’s doubles category with Viktorija Golubic.
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Martin Hromkovic was a professional footballer for OFC Russel Gabcikovo in Slovakia. He played professional football for several years until retiring in 2019 to work as a full-time trainer for Belinda Bencic. Hromkovic is so active in both Bencic’s personal and professional life. The couple has been dating since November of last year and has been open about their relationship. They have frequently shared photos of themselves on social media. Belinda announced the couple were dating in an interview in 2018. Martin lives in Slovakia, where Belinda travels to improve her fitness and where she first met Hromkovic.
Dana and Ivan Bencic gave birth to Belinda on March 10, 1997 in Flawil, Switzerland. Her father, Ivan, was a professional hockey player in the Swiss National League A and National League B before becoming an insurance broker. Dana, her mother, was a top-level handball player. Her father was a recreational tennis player who introduced Belinda to the game at the age of two after being impressed by then-World No. 1 Martina Hingis and wishing Belinda would follow in Martina’s footsteps. Ivan is still Belinda’s coach, and he left his work as an insurance broker to be a full-time coach for his daughter.
