Viktorija Golubic

Golubic started playing on the ITF Women's Circuit at the $10K event in Budapest in June 2008.[2] She played her first two WTA qualifying tournaments at the Hungarian Ladies Open and Gastein Ladies in 2010. She made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the Gastein Ladies in 2013, where she recorded her first WTA win and reached second round. However, all of her attempts to qualify for a Grand Slam failed.[3]

Golubic at the 2016 US Open

After winning her eighth ITF title at the $25K event in Hong Kong,[2] Golubic reached her first Grand Slam main draw at the Australian Open through qualifying and lost to Carla Suárez Navarro in the first round of the tournament.[3] She then reached the quarterfinals of another ITF event before failing to reach the main draw of her next three tournaments.[2][3] At the Katowice Open, Golubic entered the main draw as a qualifier and beat Paula Kania in the first round before losing to Tímea Babos.[3]

Prior to the French Open, Golubic played in the qualifying of the WTA Prague Open, where she lost to Viktória Kužmová in the first round.[3] After a quarterfinal appearance at the $50K Saint-Gaudens,[2] she entered French Open through qualifying and earned her first Grand Slam main-draw win with a three-set victory over Alison Riske. She lost to Lucie Šafářová in round two.[3]

Golubic started her grass-court season at the Rosmalen Championships, entering the main draw as a qualifier and defeating Anna-Lena Friedsam and Risa Ozaki en route to her first WTA quarterfinal, losing to Belinda Bencic. Her next two tournaments (the Mallorca Open and Wimbledon) ended in qualifying.[3] She also lost in the first round of her next ITF tournament in Budapest.[2]

At the inaugural Ladies Championship Gstaad, Golubic beat No. 7 seed Mona Barthel, Evgeniya Rodina, Carina Witthöft and Rebeka Masarova en route to her first WTA final.[4] She then defeated third seed Kiki Bertens to lift her first WTA trophy.[3] With the title, Golubic entered the top 100 for the first time.[5] Golubic reached another final at the Linz Open, in which she was defeated by Dominika Cibulková.[6] On her way to the final, she made her first top 10 win, defeating world No. 6 Garbiñe Muguruza in the quarterfinal.[3] She ended the season as No. 57 in the WTA Rankings.[5]

Golubic at the 2018 French Open

In 2017, Golubic could not emulate her results of the previous year. Despite winning only four matches in the first half of the season,[3] she reached her career-highest singles ranking of place 51 in April 2017. After that, she started to fall on the ranking and dropped out of the top 100 again.[5] However, she started to produced good results again in the late season. In October, she reached semifinal of the Linz Open, but then lost to Magdaléna Rybáriková. It was her first WTA singles semifinal since October 2016.[3] She then came at the WTA Challenger Tour, where she reached two semifinals, at the Hua Hin Championships and Taipei Challenger.[3][7]

Golubic's most significant results during season of 2018 came at the ITF Women's Circuit and WTA Challenger Tour. In the early season, she reached final of the $60K Burnie International, losing there to Marta Kostyuk.[2] Later, she reached quarterfinals of the Indian Wells Challenger, $100K Open de Cagnes-sur-Mer, Bol Open and Manchester Trophy.[2][3] In October she won $80K Poitiers, defeating Natalia Vikhlyantseva in the final. [2]In June 2018, Golubic returned to top 100, after almost one year spending outside top 100. After then, multiple times she dropped out the top 100 and returned back, but finished year as world No. 92.[5]

In the early season, Golubic reached quarterfinal of the Hua Hin Championships, where she lost to Tamara Zidanšek. She then won her biggest title since 2016 at the Indian Wells Challenger, saving a championship point against Jennifer Brady in the finals. On her way to the title round, she knocked out top seed Wang Qiang to mark her first Top 20 win since October 2016.[3] At Wimbledon, she reached her first Grand Slam third round, after defeating Iga Świątek and Yulia Putintseva,[8] but then lost to Dayana Yastremska.[3] In September, she reached quarterfinal of the Jiangxi Open, losing there to Elena Rybakina.[9] She followed this with semifinal of the Guangzhou Open, where she lost to Samantha Stosur.[10]

Golubic struggle with both form and results during season of 2020. Her most significant result came at the $80K Cagnes-sur-mer in September, when she reached quarterfinal, but then lost to Sara Sorribes Tormo.[2] She made first round losses at the Australian Open and US Open, while she failed in qualifications of the French Open.[3] During the season, Golubic started to fall on the rankings, getting out the top 100 in late February. She then continued to fall on the ranking and finished year as world No. 137.[5]

Current after the 2020 season.

Notes

• ¹ WTA Tournament of Champions was held from 2009 to 2014, when WTA Elite Trophy replaced it.
• ² The first Premier 5 event of the year has switched back and forth between the Dubai Tennis Championships and the Qatar Total Open since 2009. Dubai was classified as a Premier 5 event from 2009–2011 before being succeeded by Doha for the 2012–2014 period. In 2015, Dubai regained its Premier 5 status while Doha was demoted to Premier status. The two tournaments have since alternated status every year.
• ³ In 2014, the Toray Pan Pacific Open was downgraded to a Premier event and replaced by the Wuhan Open.