Belinda Bencic is a Swiss professional tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of No. 4 in women’s singles by the Women’s Tennis Association which she achieved in February of 2020. Bencic has won six singles titles, including a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and two doubles titles on the WTA Tour.
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What happened to Belinda Bencic?
The Swiss tennis player was among a series of players who caught COVID-19 the Mubadala World Tennis Championship exhibition in Abu Dhabi last December. Some of the other athletes included Rafael Nadal and Emma Raducanu.
She experienced very severe symptoms but managed to recover and return to playing tennis after a number of weeks. The 24-year-old has stated that a subsequent medical examination revealed that she had some form of abnormality in her lungs that would take a couple of months to treat.
She was seen breathing heavily at some of the games right after she returned from her covid quarantine.
