{"id":12280,"date":"2025-07-09T11:20:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/belinda-bensik-defeats-mira-andreva-to-reach-wimbledon-semis\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T11:20:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:20:54","slug":"belinda-bensik-defeats-mira-andreva-to-reach-wimbledon-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/belinda-bensik-defeats-mira-andreva-to-reach-wimbledon-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Belinda Bensik defeats Mira Andreva to reach Wimbledon Semis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Belindavensik, who played in the first Wimbledon quarterfinals in nine appearances for Earl England Club, disrupts the Russian teenage sense to Mira Andriva 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2) on Wednesday, reaching the Grand Slam semi-finals for the first time in six years.<\/p>\n

“To be honest, I’m speechless,” said Vensik, who hasn’t been seeded for the tournament. “I’m very happy.”<\/p>\n

On Thursday, she will face No. 8 Iga Swiatek, five-time Grand Slam champion.<\/p>\n

Since Maria Sharapova in 2005, seventh seed Andreva, who had promised to become the first 18 year old in a women’s draw to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals, had not dropped the set in four matches and had played one set past four all.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old Bensik was one of nine mothers in a singles draw at Wimbledon, but is still the only mother to compete. She missed Wimbledon last year while on maternity leave and gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Bella in April 2024.<\/p>\n

She returned to the competition last October and started the year, ranked 489th. With her performance at Wimbledon, she reaches the top 20.<\/p>\n

Bensik joined Martina Hingis as the only Swiss woman to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals during her opening days.<\/p>\n

ESPN research contributed to this report. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Belindavensik, who played in the first Wimbledon quarterfinals in nine appearances for Earl England Club, disrupts the Russian teenage sense to Mira Andriva 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2) on Wednesday, reaching the Grand Slam semi-finals for the first time in six years. “To be honest, I’m speechless,” said Vensik, who hasn’t been seeded for the tournament. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3697,3773,3774,27,348,197,198,24,1790],"class_list":["post-12280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-andreva","tag-belinda","tag-bensik","tag-defeats","tag-mira","tag-reach","tag-semis","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}