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Paula Badosa wins her debut at the Abu Dhabi tournament

The Begur tennis player Paula Badosa premiered in 2021 with a victory in Abu Dhabi tournament, of category 500 by the WTA, when winning (6-2, 5-7 and 6-2) the Latvian Anastasia Sevastova in the first round. In a match that lasted almost two hours, Girona was more aggressive, especially in the third and final set, to take the duel.

Badosa attacked in the first bars of the game and added two consecutive breaks to take the heat. However, in another tight half, this one with five breaks, Sevastova forced the third set in a very tight hose (5-7).

In the last, the two tennis players had saved their best service, but Badosa broke the first ball at a key moment that shook his rival. With 5-2, a new break gave the victory to Begur, who will now face, in the second round, the winner of the duel between the Belgian Elise Mertens and the French Alizé Cornet. A match being played this morning.

Paula Badosa is right now the number 70 in the WTA rankings after completing a great 2020, reaching the round of 16 of Roland Garros and knocking out two champions of the Paris tournament like Sloane Stephen and Jelena Ostapenko. However, she was eliminated against the German Laura Siegemund, but this great result in Paris would make her reach number 65 in the WTA rankings, the best position in which she has been the tennis player of Begur throughout her career .

This past 2020, Badosa also won its first match in a final table of a Grand Slam. Earlier this year, he had managed to defeat Sweden’s Johanna Larsson in the first round of the Australian Open. He could no longer then with the Czech Petra Kvitová, a finalist in 2019 in the Australian tournament.

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