Olympic champion Belinda Bencic announces pregnancy: 'Expecting our little miracle soon'
The world No.14 tennis player and gold medallist at Tokyo 2020 revealed the news in an Instagram post.
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Olympic tennis champion Belinda Bencic is set to become a mum in 2024.
The Tokyo 2020 singles champion announced the news on her Instagram account on Friday (3 November) with a simple caption: "Expecting our little miracle soon! We can't wait to meet you."
Bencic has long been partnered to Martin Hromkovic, her strength and conditioning coach.
The 26-year-old from Switzerland has been ranked as high as world No.4 in 2020, and has eight career titles to her name. None are bigger than her gold medal performance in Tokyo in 2021, when she beat Marketa Vondrousova for the Olympic title.
She also won doubles silver alongside Viktorija Golubic at those Games.
Bencic helped lead the Swiss team to the Billie Jean King Cup title to close out the 2022 season, a historic first after runner-up finishes in the women's tennis team event in 1998 and 2021.