Wednesday's Matches To Watch With The Final Quarterfinal Spots On The Line

Fourth-round action at the BNP Paribas Open concludes on Wednesday, as we build towards the quarterfinals. More enticing matchups are set to take place...including these five:

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Coco Gauff vs. Belinda Bencic

Belinda Bencic has done a lot of winning in her career. The Swiss landed the gold medal at the 2021 Olympics, is a Grand Slam semifinalist and has spent much of her career inside the top 20.

But fully returning to the tour this year, she didn’t expect her comeback — Bencic became a mom last year — to go as well as it has. “But of course I'm going to take it,” said Bencic. “I'm very happy about it, and I feel like obviously it was a lot of hard work, to make the comeback.” Bencic entered Indian Wells inside the top 15 in the calendar year standings and picked up yet another victory on Monday as she turned 27.

Gauff, though, is one of the four players to get the better of Bencic in 2025, winning their fourth-round match at the Australian Open in three sets. And Gauff got some revenge Monday against Maria Sakkari, advancing in straight sets after the Greek won their semifinal in Tennis Paradise 12 months ago. The 2023 US Open champ did hit double faults — nine — but that number dropped from the 21 in the second round.

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