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Tennis: Golubic and Teichmann are already finished – Sports News: Tennis

Belinda Bencic was the last Swiss to compete in just one rotation Monday at the opening of the Australian Open. For his first big table game in Melbourne, Jil Teichmann (WTA 68) lost against stronger: Ekaterina Alexandrova (WTA 28) 4-6, 6-4, 2-6. As for Viktorija Golubic (WTA 76), she is writing one more chapter in her tormented history with the first lifting of the Grand Slam. His defeat in the “super tie-break” against the modest Chinese Lin Zhu (WTA 71), 6-4, 1-6, 6-7, is indeed his fifth failure in the first round “Down Under”.

Let’s be honest, Jil Teichmann can already be happy to have won the right to play a third set after a catastrophic start. Too fragile in service, the Biennoise had long struggled to make the weight of the trade against Ekaterina Alexandrova. But led 4-6, 1-3, she then took advantage of an astonishing air gap from the Russian to revive and equalize in a heat everywhere. More powerful, more enterprising too, the winner from Shenzhen recovered very quickly, however, finally won without shaking too much (6-4, 4-6, 6-2).

Viktorija Golubic will be able to blame herself for much longer. The way she forced the decision at the end of the first leg – two sublime backhands in a row – could indeed suggest that the Zurich woman would finally break her curse from Melbourne Park. Unfortunately for her, “Viki” was completely missing her second run. And despite a break point 4-4 in the third and a better start in the decisive tie break (3-0), Golubic collapsed completely conceding eight points in a row (including two double faults).

Some defeats hurt more than others and this one is definitely one of them.

Mathieu Aeschmann, Melbourne

Created: 20.01.2020, 04h14

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