Coach's sneaky ploy caught on camera

Belinda Bencic had enjoyed a beardown pb up to the Australian Open, and her coaches were not taking immoderate chances against Italian Camila Giorgi.

Bencic won the Adelaide International, and had won 7 matches successful a enactment coming into the match.

Next to each players' container successful the main arenas astatine the Australian Open is simply a camera to seizure the absorption of the squad successful cardinal moments.

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But Bencic's campy wanted nary portion of it - covering up the debased camera, leaving lone the overhead shot.

Belinda Bencic's coaches were not prepared to instrumentality immoderate risks arsenic she faced Camila Giorgi (Nine)

"We can't spot close into that camera wherever that spot of insubstantial is connected the broadside there, but we tin hover implicit the top. We person plentifulness of angles here," Peter Marcato said connected commentary.

"So overmuch exertion determination that the coaches have. There's plentifulness of stats feeds that they get successful the lucifer now, it's a large innovation for the coaches."

Bencic yet reached the 4th circular for the archetypal clip since 2016, beating Giorgi 6-2, 7-5 connected Rod Laver Arena.

Belinda Bencic plays a forehand successful her lucifer against Camila Giorgi. (Getty)

Bencic was breached erstwhile serving for the lucifer astatine 5-4 but she broke successful the pursuing crippled and past served retired to emotion for victory.

"I'm truly blessed I got a 2nd accidental to service it out," she said. "But wide I deliberation it was a large match. (At 6-5) I conscionable tried to relax. My manager (Dmitri Tursunov) was showing maine unbend (signals)."

"I deliberation a batch of recognition goes to my coach," she said.

"We started moving unneurotic astatine the extremity of October astatine the Billie Jean King Cup. We're changing immoderate things ... I'm retired of my comfortableness zone, truthful acold it's moving well."

Bencic plays either Aryna Sabalenka oregon Elise Mertens successful the 4th round.

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