The youngest player to win at Wimbledon, male or female, is Martina Hingis, who achieved the record in 1997. She was 16 years, nine months, and five days old.

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The first Swiss woman to make it to the last four since Martina Hingis in 1998 will now play Poland's five-times Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek for a place in the final.

Bencic made her only other major last four appearance at the 2019 US Open. She is also only the second Swiss woman to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals after Hingis.

Bencic, the first Swiss woman to make it this far since Martina Hingis in 1998, beamed after putting away the final volley, saying: “It’s crazy, it’s unbelievable, it’s a dream come true.

The only mother left in the singles draw smashed her first of four match points to win the second tie-break of the contest and become her country's first women's semi-finalist since Martina Hingis ...

She is the first Swiss woman semi-finalist at Wimbledon since Martina Hingis 27 years ago, having failed to make it past the last 16 in her previous eight visits to southwest London. "I'm very proud.