US Open: Clear defeat for Golubic in New York

Viktorija Golubic (WTA 73) also fails to win in her seventh appearance at the US Open. The 31-year-old from Zurich lost 0:6, 3:6 to Spain’s Paula Badosa in 69 minutes.

At the Australian Open earlier this year, Golubic had made it through a round of the main draw for the first time, but in New York she clearly failed to do so. She only won her first game against the New York-born Badosa after half an hour to go 1:0 up in the second set, and she got her service through for the first and only time at 3:5.

Badosa is on her way back to the top after a year marked by injuries. Since the beginning of the month, the 26-year-old former world No. 2 has won the 500 tournament in Washington DC and reached the semi-finals of the WTA 1000 event in Cincinnati. Nevertheless, something could have been possible for Golubic in the second set because the Swiss showed fighting spirit and Badosa weakened on her own service.

But despite all her efforts, things have not been going well for Golubic for a few weeks now. Since her victory in the starting round of the French Open against Czech Wimbledon winner Barbora Krejcikova, she has only won one match on the WTA Tour.

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