Coco Gauff and Belinda Bencic are set to meet in the Wimbledon fourth round, and Bencic tennis now carries a direct quarterfinal path in the second week. Four women’s fourth-round matches are on the schedule, with this one sitting at the center of the day’s board.
Gauff enters a matchup that resumes a rivalry rather than starts one from scratch. That gives the fourth round a sharper edge: the winner moves into the group fighting for a place in the last eight, while the loser is done in this stage.
Aryna Sabalenka Set the Pace
Aryna Sabalenka arrived with form that already looks hard to shake. She served 9 aces against Jelena Ostapenko, then had beaten Naomi Osaka three times this year, a run that shows how little margin the rest of the draw can afford when she lands first serves.
Those numbers also frame the broader fourth-round picture. In the same second week, the women’s field is being sorted quickly, and the best-supported picks are tied to recent results rather than reputation alone.
Barbora Krejcikova Built Momentum
Barbora Krejcikova kept her run moving after defeating the French Open champion in the second round. She backed up that win against Nikola Bartunkova, which gives her side of the draw more weight than a single upset would have on its own.
Karolina Muchova adds another layer because she has not dropped a set so far at Wimbledon. That kind of clean path changes how the fourth round is read: one player arrives with momentum from a long match chain, another with a scoreline that has stayed intact through the tournament.
Coco Gauff and Belinda Bencic now sit in the most straightforward part of the picture. The fourth round decides who stays on course for a quarterfinal place, and the rest of the women’s slate gives the match its context: one branch built on recent command, another on clean progression, and this rivalry meeting as the first true test of both.
