Clara Tauson clobbers Viktorija Golubic 6-4 6-1 in the final in Lyon on Sunday after playing a marvellous match to win her 2nd career title, the 2nd of this season. The match lasted 1 hour and 29 minutes.
Tauson was delighted about the outcome of the contest. She commented:
“I think I played aggressive, I think I played my game, even though I missed a few balls. I didn’t really think too much about winning or losing, I thought about playing my game and just playing one point at a time, and that helped a lot.”
Highlights Clara Tauson vs. Viktorija Golubic Open 6 Sens – Lyon
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
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At the end of the match, Tauson scored 74 points vs. Golubic’s 53.
Tauson
The Dane won this match even if she had some problems converting her break points since she converted only 38% (6/16) of the procured opportunities.
Golubic
On the other side, Viktorija was far from perfect in converting her break points (only 38% – 3/8). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Tauson and Golubic is 2-0 for Clara.
This was the 1st career title for Tauson. The Swiss remains with 1 title after she conquered the tournament in Gstaad 2016.
Live score progression and stats
was pretty sharp at the beginning of the set after breaking Tauson in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, Tauson managed to stage a great comeback to break Viktorija 4 times in the 4th (2-2), in the 6th (4-2), in the 8th (5-3) gamein the 10th game before winning the set (6-4) after breaking his opponent in the last game.
Tauson failed to serve out the set when leading 5-3 to be broken at 40.
One of the most important stints of the set was when the Dane won 4 consecutive games in the 1st set to bring the game count from 0-2 to 4-2.
They played 62 points. Clara won 10 points more than the Swiss (36-26). Clara dropped 12 points on serve (15-12). on the other side of the net, the Swiss conceded 21 points on serve (14-21).
Tauson didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 5-0. Clara extended her lead after breaking Golubic in the 4th (4-0) game before conquering the set (6-1).
A defining moment of this set was when the Dane won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set so as to convert the score from 0-0 to 5-0.
They played 56 points. Tauson was the one to win the set after conquering 14 more points than Viktorija (35-21). Tauson surrendered 9 points on serve (20-9). Regarding the other side of the net, the Swiss conceded 15 points on serve (12-15).
