{"id":871093,"date":"2026-10-05T02:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T02:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/871093\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T02:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T02:06:16","slug":"golubic-suffers-clear-defeat-against-top-ten-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/871093\/","title":{"rendered":"Golubic Suffers Clear Defeat Against Top-Ten Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WTA Tour<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Viktorija Golubic can't always use her forehand to her advantage\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"object-cover\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/b39418f9-ba80-4920-a9b0-29d7ed20b820.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-dark-gray text-small mt-2\">Viktorija Golubic can&#8217;t always use her forehand to her advantage<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-gray text-smaller mt-1 [.ticker-entry_&amp;]:border-b [.ticker-entry_&amp;]:border-aluminum [.ticker-entry_&amp;]:pb-1\">Keystone<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-stacked-spacing a-paragraph a-paragraph--lead text-h4 leading-26 md:leading-28 text-navy p-4 pb-8 md:px-0 md:pt-8\" data-t-name=\"Paragraph\">Viktorija Golubic was no match for her opponent in the third round of the WTA 1000 tournament in Beijing. The Zurich native lost to Czech top-ten player Linda Noskova 2-6, 1-6 in just under an hour.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Keystone-SDA\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"h-full w-full rounded-full object-cover\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/bluewin-prod-sc-images.imgix.net\/2026\/04\/07\/8f8bf2bc-2db8-4d30-a567-72697f869653.heif?w=96&amp;auto=format&amp;s=07db0ac73ee5d1f68cd7a05910f2bdf5\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"author-names text-navy text-small\">Keystone-SDA<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"12\" height=\"12\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"mr-1 h-3 w-3\" style=\"color:transparent\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.bluewin.ch\/_next\/static\/media\/021-clock.24ldz2iukf4_m.svg?w=32\"\/>04.10.2026, 09:47<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph text-standard wrap-break-word text-dark-gray font-thesans w-full\">Only at the start of the second set did the Swiss player (WTA 67) have a brief opportunity, when she earned three break points in a row in the first game. But the Wimbledon champion turned the tide by winning five points in a row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph text-standard wrap-break-word text-dark-gray font-thesans w-full\">This means that Switzerland&#8217;s hopes at the tournament in China&#8217;s capital now rest on Belinda Bencic, who will face American Ann Li (WTA No. 30) in the round of 32.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph text-standard wrap-break-word text-dark-gray font-thesans w-full\">Aryna Sabalenka, the tournament\u2019s No. 2 seed, was eliminated in the third round. The Belarusian lost to Czech top-40 player Nikola Bartunkova 4-6, 3-6. The world No. 1, Yelena Rybakina, had already been eliminated from the draw on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WTA Tour Viktorija Golubic can&#8217;t always use her forehand to her advantage Keystone Viktorija Golubic was no match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428,21197],"class_list":["post-871093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-wta-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}