Olympics – Women’s tennis silver and gold

The Olympic Women’s final Tennis bouts almost seemed like a Billie Jean King Cup (formerly know as Fed Cup) match between Switzerland and Czechia. First, Saturday’s final Women’s Tennis Singles match featured a duel between Czech rising star Markéta Vondroušová and Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic. After a long battle, B. Bencic came out victorious. While she earned this gold medal for Switzerland, she is a descendant of Czechoslovakian emigrants. Her grandparents escaped Slovakia during the Prague Spring period in 1968, and settled in Switzerland. Belinda Bencic herself still prefers to speak Slovakian, and thus a few attentive viewers of the final could hear her expressing her emotions in surprisingly similar words to the Czech player’s. On Sunday, the final Women’s Tennis

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