BENCIC wins WTA title

Switzerland’s Olympic champion Belinda Bencic won the WTA Charleston title with a battling three-set win over Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur.

Bencic, won 6-1 5-7 6-4 in a match that lasted for two hours and 35 minutes.

This is her sixth career WTA title and she is the first Swiss woman to win the event since Martina Hingis in 1999.