By Chris Oddo | Sunday, April 6, 2014
Could Jana Cepelova and Belinda Bencic be the WTA's next big rivalry? If Twitter had its way they would.
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If you missed Saturday's wild, slap yourself in the face three-set thriller between Jana Cepelova and 17-year-old Belinda Bencic, you may want to see what you can do about tracking down some video of this rollicking affair. There was already a lot of interest in the match at the start, with Bencic, a promising if volatile youngster bidding to reach the first final of her career against the cagey, fiery 20-year-old who knocked off Serena Williams earlier in the week.
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As the match progressed, and the tennis and histrionics heated up (Bencic let her emotions get the best of her on a regular basis, Cepelova barked and even slapped herself in the face at one point), Twitter began to buzz. By the end of the third-set tiebreaker it had been established: This match was one of the most pleasant surprises of the WTA's 2014 season, and, if the season ended today, it would go down as one of the best women's matches of the campaign.
Don't believe me? Check out what the Twitterverse was riffing on during the match: