TENNIS SCORES. Zhu shocks Golubic in the qualifications in New York

Lin Zhu surprises Viktorija Golubic 3-6 6-1 7-5 in the qualifications in New York on Sunday. Zhu will fight against Yulia Putintseva in the 1^st round.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

Viktorija won the set after she broke the Chinese 3 times in the 5^th (3-2), in the 7^th (4-3) and in the 9^th (6-3) game. Zhu tried to stage a comeback breaking in the 6^th (3-3) game. Yet, Viktorija kept the focus before winning the set 6-3.

2^nd set.

The Chinese was too strong to concede just 1 game before breaking Viktorija 3 times and win the set 6-1.

Golubic was not able to offer any resistance in the last 6 games of the set (from 0-1 to 6-1).

3^rd set.

Zhu won the set after recovering 2 times from a break down. In fact, after dropping her serve in the 3^rd (1-2) and in the 7^th (4-3) game. Zhu broke back 3 times in the 4^th (2-2), in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 12^th (7-5) game before winning the set 7-5.

Statistics

At the end of the match, the Chinese scored 92 points vs. Viktorija’s 75 points.

Lin didn’t lose the concentration in converting 88% of the break points that she conquered (7/8). On the other side, the Swiss didn’t lose the concentration in converting 56% of the break points that she procured points (5/9). Nevertheless, that was not enough to win the match.

After this contest, the head to head between Zhu and Golubic is 1-0 for Lin.

Next Match: Lin Zhu vs. Yulia Putintseva – stats

Zhu will come up against Putintseva in the 1^st round.

There is no head to head record between Lin Zhu and Yulia Putintseva since this will be the first time that they will fight against each other in the main tour.

Tennis Scores in New York

• Anastasia PotapovaAnastasia – Francesca Di LorenzoFrancesca (6-4 4-6 6-2) – See score progression
• Magda LinetteMagda – Anna BlinkovaAnna (7-6⁶ 7-6⁹) – See score progression
• Jil TeichmannJil – Laura SiegemundLaura (0-6 7-6⁷ 7-6⁵) – See score progression
• Fiona FerroFiona – Elizabeth MandlikElizabeth (4-6 6-4 6-3) – See score progression
• Lin ZhuLin – Viktorija GolubicViktorija (3-6 6-1 7-5) – See score progression
• Kaia KanepiKaia – Nadiya KichenokNadiya (6-7³ 6-1 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Fiona FerroFiona – Viktorija GolubicViktorija (1-0) – See H2H details
• Laura SiegemundLaura – Mihaela BuzarnescuMihaela (0-0) – See H2H details
• Coco VandewegheCoco – Anna BlinkovaAnna (0-0) – See H2H details
• Shuai ZhangShuai – Andrea PetkovicAndrea (0-2) – See H2H details
• Camila GiorgiCamila – Margarita GasparyanMargarita (1-1) – See H2H details
• Lin ZhuLin – Yulia PutintsevaYulia (0-0) – See H2H details
• Karolina MuchovaKarolina – Viktoria KuzmovaViktoria (0-0) – See H2H details
• Kristie AhnKristie – Jil TeichmannJil (0-0) – See H2H details
• Magda LinetteMagda – Kaia KanepiKaia (0-0) – See H2H details
• Polona HercogPolona – Aliaksandra SasnovichAliaksandra (1-1) – See H2H details
• Katerina SiniakovaKaterina – Yafan WangYafan (1-0) – See H2H details
• Alison Van UytvanckAlison – Anastasia PotapovaAnastasia (0-0) – See H2H details
• Bernarda PeraBernarda – Barbora StrycovaBarbora (0-1) – See H2H details