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Glenn Moore

Mum Bencic hoping to follow Aussie trailblazers

The odds are against Belinda Bencic winning the Wimbledon women's singles, and not just because she is 35th in the rankings and faces the impressive seventh-seed Mirra Andreeva in the quarter-finals.

She is also a mother, and only three mums have won a grand slam in the Open era. Even Serena Williams cold not do it, though she did reach four finals.

Of the trio two are Australians: Margaret Court, who won the Australian, French and US Opens in 1973, and Evonne Goolagong Cawley whose 1980 Wimbledon crown came after she had given birth to daughter Kelly.

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