Bencic after the match balls cleared in the 3rd round

What a fight: Belinda Bencic defended four match points at Wimbledon and is now in the third round (Picture: KEYSTONE / EPA / NIC BOTHMA)

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In a high-level meeting, Riske, known as a good turf player, has long dominated with her strong serve. From the second set, Bencic managed to better defend against the game.

Turnbreaker of the second set: Eastern Switzerland of 21 defended four match points before benefiting from a double error of the game. American in the second set. The decisive break in the game of decision then succeeded in a long match at 3: 2, having had to postpone two chances of break themselves. This broke Riske's resistance. After 2:24 hours, Bencic took his first match point to victory.

"I do not know how I went around," Bencic said afterwards. At first, Riske was playing "incredibly well". "I did not want to do anything wrong, it was frustrating, but I just tried to stay tuned." Already five weeks ago in Paris, She had beaten five match points against Italian Deborah Chiesa, but this time the level was much higher.

Bencic showed how much she wanted to win by playing several times with the referee on the small court 16, which is not Hawkeye. "I know, they're just doing their job. But I had the impression that the whole world was against me. And in the tie-break, I was at the limit with my nerves. In any case, it helped her to keep pushing. However, she has never lost focus.

Next, Bencic will face the Spanish Carla Suarez Navarro, seeded number 27 on Saturday. The last time she had survived two rounds at a Grand Slam tournament almost two years ago in New York. After that, she was still hurting him. The Swiss may well be able to calculate the chances of success. The only match lost by Bencic three years ago in Stuttgart. But it was on the sand, the strongest underlay of the 29 year old Spanish. Lawn, on the other hand, is much more the domain of the Wimbledon Junior Champion in 2013.