Viktorija Golubic ( sr, Викторија Голубић, Viktorija Golubić; ; born 16 October 1992) is a Swiss professional

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player. Golubic has won one singles title on the

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, two singles WTA Challenger titles, as well as ten singles and 15 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit so far. On 28 February 2022, she reached her career-high singles

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of world No. 35. On 15 January 2018, she peaked at No. 63 in the doubles rankings.

Professional career

2008–15: ITF Circuit

Golubic started playing on the

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at the $10K event in

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in June 2008. She played her first two WTA qualifying tournaments at the Hungarian Open and

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in 2010. She made her

main-draw debut at the

in 2013, where she recorded her first WTA win and reached second round. However, all of her attempts to qualify for a

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failed.

2016: Breakthrough, WTA title, top 100

After winning her eighth ITF title at the $25k event in

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, Golubic reached her first Grand Slam main draw at the Australian Open through qualifying and lost to

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in the first round of the tournament. She then reached the quarterfinals of another ITF event before failing to reach the main draw of her next three tournaments. At the Katowice Open, Golubic entered the main draw as a qualifier and beat

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in the first round before losing to

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. Prior to the French Open, Golubic played in the qualifying of the

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but lost to

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in the first round. After a quarterfinal appearance at the $50k Open Saint-Gaudens, she entered French Open through qualifying and earned her first Grand Slam main-draw win with a three-set victory over

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. She lost to

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in round two. Golubic started her grass-court season at the Rosmalen Championships, entering the main draw as a qualifier and defeating

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and

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en route to her first WTA quarterfinal, before losing to

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. Her next two tournaments (the Mallorca Open and

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) ended in qualifying. She also lost in the first round of her next ITF tournament in Budapest. At the inaugural

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, Golubic beat No. 7 seed

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and

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en route to her first WTA tournament final. She then defeated third seed

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to lift her first WTA trophy. With the title, Golubic entered the top 100 for the first time. Golubic reached another final at the

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, in which she was defeated by

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. On her way to the final, she made her first top-10 win by defeating world No. 6,

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, in the quarterfinal. She ended the season as No. 57 in the WTA rankings.

2017–20: Struggle with form, 1st major third round, WTA 125 title

In 2017, Golubic could not emulate her results of the previous year. Despite winning only four matches in the first half of the season, she reached a new career-high singles ranking of 51, in April 2017. After that, she started to fall in the ranking and dropped out of the top 100 again. However, she had good results again in the late season. In October, she reached semifinals of the

, before losing to

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. It was her first singles semifinal on WTA Tour since October 2016. She then played on the

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, losing there to

Marta Kostyuk Marta Olehivna Kostyuk ( uk, Марта Олегівна Костюк; born 28 June 2002) is a Ukrainian tennis player. She has career-high rankings of 49 in singles, achieved on 14 February 2022, and world No. 39 in doubles, reached on 19 Septem ...

. Later, she reached quarterfinals of the Indian Wells Challenger, $100k

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and Manchester Trophy. In October, she won the $80k Poitiers event, defeating

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in the final. In June 2018, Golubic after almost one year reentered the top 100. She finished the year as world No. 92. In the early 2019 season, Golubic reached the quarterfinal of the Thailand Open, where she lost to

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. She then won her biggest title since 2016 at the Indian Wells Challenger, saving a championship point against

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in the final. On her way to the title, she knocked out top seed Wang Qiang to mark her first top-20 win since October 2016. At

, she reached the third round of a major for the first time by defeating

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and

Yulia Putintseva Yulia Antonovna Putintseva ( rus, Ю́лия Анто́новна Пути́нцева; , ''puh-TEEN-tseh-vah''; born 7 January 1995) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani professional tennis player. She is a three-time Grand Slam quarterfinalist (twic ...

, but then lost to

Dayana Yastremska Dayana Oleksandrivna Yastremska ( uk, Даяна Олександрівна Ястремська; born 15 May 2000) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of world No. 21 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). ...

. In September, she reached quarterfinals of the Jiangxi International Open, losing there to

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. She followed this with a semifinal appearance at the Guangzhou International Open, before losing to

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. Golubic struggled with form during the following season. Her most significant result came at the $80k

in September, when she reached quarterfinals and lost to

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. She suffered first-round losses at the Australian Open and US Open, while she failed in the qualifying of the French Open. Golubic fell out of the top 100 in late February and finished the year as world No. 137.

2021: First Grand Slam quarterfinal, top 50 debut

Ranked world No. 66 at

, Golubic reached a Grand Slam quarterfinal for the first time defeating en-route two seeded players, 23rd seed American

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in the fourth round and 29th seed

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, plus two more Americans,

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and

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, respectively. Having won 43 matches already in 2021, Golubic guaranteed herself a top-50 debut with this breakthrough run, moving 18 places to world No. 48 on 12 July 2021, having never passed the third round of this major before.

2022: Top 35 debut, Indian Wells fourth round, out of top 100

At the Indian Wells Open, she reached the fourth round at WTA 1000-level for the first time in her career before losing to

. Because she could not defend her points at the

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, she fell out of the top 100 on 18 July 2022.

National representation

Fed Cup

Playing for

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at the

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, Golubic has a win–loss record of 6–6. At the 2016 Fed Cup semifinals, Golubic earned surprising wins over

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and

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, defeating both in three sets. Although it was not enough for Switzerland to beat the

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, Golubic was praised for her performance.

Olympics

In her first Olympics participation at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Golubic advanced to the doubles final with

by defeating Brazilian pair

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and

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Performance timelines

''Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.''

Singles

''Current after the 2023 Adelaide International.''

Doubles

Significant finals

Olympic Games

Doubles: 1 (silver medal)

WTA career finals

Singles: 4 (1 title, 3 runner–ups)

Doubles: 1 (runner–up)

WTA Challenger finals

Singles: 3 (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 20 (10 titles, 10 runner–ups)

Doubles: 32 (15 titles, 17 runner–ups)

Top 10 wins

Notes

References

External links

Official website
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Golubic, Viktorija 1992 births Living people Tennis players from Zürich Swiss female tennis players Swiss people of Serbian descent Swiss people of Croatian descent Olympic tennis players of Switzerland Tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland Olympic medalists in tennis Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics