It’s been one of the most unfortunate stories in recent memory—after breaking the Top 10 as an 18-year-old, Belinda Bencic was almost immediately hit with two big injuries, first a back injury that sidelined her for two months in 2016 and then a left wrist injury that required surgery and kept her out for five months in 2017. Having once been as high as No. 7, she fell as low as No. 318 this September.
But in the last three months, Bencic has completely flipped that script.
Since returning to the tour this September, she’s won 28 of 31 matches and four of the seven tournaments she’s played, picking up two titles at the WTA 125K Series level (Hua Hin and Taipei) and two ITF Circuit titles (St. Petersburg and Dubai, which are among the biggest ITF Circuit events).
Her win in Dubai this past weekend, where she beat fellow injury-returnee Ajla Tomljanovic for the title, pushed her up to No. 74 in the world, a far cry from the No. 318 she came back to the tour as.
Still just 20 years old, could the talented young Swiss be primed for another run to the top of the game in 2018? If her past accomplishments are anything to go by, the answer is probably yes.
Here are a few reminders of what she’s already done in her career—first, when she made it all the way to her first Grand Slam quarterfinal at the US Open in 2014, when she was just 17 years old: