Belinda Bencic marked this WTA week with her impressive run to the Dubai title, so I thought it would be nice to take a trip back to her childhood and her first tennis shots, as part of my Little Tennis Stars series.
Belinda may be the only tennis player who can proudly say that the first steps of her life happened on the tennis court, as her parents played recreationally and baby Belinda sometimes accompanied them. It didn’t take long before little Belinda fell in love with the game and already at the age of six she started training every day, at the tennis academy of Martina Hingis‘ mother Melanie Molitor, while she had her first tennis lessons at the age of three.