The world number seven won her first match against a tough Swiss opponent.
Bianca Andreescu won her 8th straight match at the US Open after battling past the Swiss Viktorija Golubic in three sets 7-5, 4-6, 7-5 in two hours and 49 minutes hitting 40 winners and serving seven aces.
“I didn’t play here last year and I honestly didn’t play anything in 2020 and I’ve been struggling a lot this past year so I am thinking about all those struggles and how it’s all worth it and winning on this court again is just incredible.”
After holding serve in the opening service game of the match it was the Canadian with the first two chances to break but the world number 45 was able to save both and hold serve.
It stayed on serve until 2-2 when the Swiss went on the attack with her powerful groundstrokes applying pressure and managed to get the first break of the set to take a 3-2 lead.
At 5-4 with the Zurich native serving for the first set, she would falter and the Canadian capitalized as she got the break back.
With the Swiss serving to stay in the set the Toronto native would pounce and get the crucial break to win the first set.
The second set once again stayed on serve until 2-2 when Andreescu called the physio and was dealing with an upset stomach so the doctor gave her a pill and she continued to play.
At 4-4, it was the Swiss once again who got the crucial break of serve and this time was able to serve out the second set to send it to a deciding third set.
The world number seven saved a breakpoint in the opening game of the third set and held serve before trying to break the following game but was denied as well.
The 2019 US Open champion saved three breakpoints at 1-1 but at 2-2 once again the world number 45 got a crucial break and was able to consolidate it before the Canadian bounced back breaking her back to go back on serve at 4-4.
At 6-5 with Golubic serving to stay in the match Andreescu went looking for the win and got it with a powerful forehand winner to seal the match and book herself a second-round match with the Amercian Lauren Davis.
After the match, Andreescu spoke about the difference today between winning and losing.
“Honestly we were literally head to head and the difference was a couple of points and in my head, I was just telling myself put the ball back in the court because she is super consistent.”
Andreescu and Davis have never met before and this will be their first-ever meeting.
