A dominant win in the last warm-up tournament before a Grand Slam doesn’t sound like an occasion for an Olympic gold medalist to express disbelief. But in Adelaide, after a 6-2, 1-0 (ret.) victory over world No. 14 Anna Kalinskaya, Belinda Bencic is at a loss.
“I didn’t even think I’d be here,” Bencic, 27 and the world No. 421, said in her on-court interview.
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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
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