Switzerland's Belinda Bencic wins gold in women's singles
Belinda Bencic became the first Swiss woman to win an Olympic gold medal in singles tennis when she defeated unseeded Marketa Vondrousova 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 on Saturday in Tokyo.
The match between No. 9 seed Bencic and Vondrousova, of the Czech Republic, was much closer that the final score indicated. Bencic tallied 107 total points to 101 for her opponent. The difference in the match, which lasted two hours and 30 minutes, w