Belinda Bencic is a Swiss professional tennis player who is currently ranked no.17 in women’s singles.
Is Belinda Bencic Serbian?
Belinda Bencic is not a Serb as many might presume. She does however have some roots in Eastern Europe as her name suggests.
What Belinda Bencic nationality and ethnicity is Belinda Bencic?
The 25 year old professional tennis player has registered her sporting nationality as Swiss. She was born in Flawil in Switzerland in 1997. She represented Switzerland at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, becoming first Swiss to win gold in the women’s singles and also silver in the doubles.
She has citizenship of both Switzerland and Slovakia. Her parents Ivan Bencic and Daniele Bencicova were both born in Czechoslovakia but emigrated to Switzerland due to the unrest in their home country.
Ivan and Daniele also hold citizenship of both countries. Her brother Brian Bencic who is also a professional tennis player also registered his sporting nationality as Swiss.
