The second movement is running when everything appears to be over. Viktorija Golubic (28, WTA 46) is 2: 3 behind and is close to the out because of the 5: 7 lost first set. But then the Zurich woman turns up a lot at the WTA 1000 tournament in Indian Wells.
Suddenly Golubic plays the Greek Maria Sakkari (26) dizzy. The world number 9 initially collects the set compensation 6: 3. Then the top ten player is disheveled in the third set. Golubic breaks Sakkari in the series, puts forward 4: 0 and in the end creates the coup with 6: 2 in the third set.
It is Golubic’s first win against a top ten player in five years. And further proof of how good she is in 2021.
Golubic qualified as an outsider for the third round at the highly endowed tournament in America. In the sixteenth finals she is now the favorite: The silver winner in the Olympic doubles meets Anna Kalinskaja (22), the Russian has prevailed as a qualifier against the Spaniard Sara Sorribes Tormo in three sets. (red)
