Paula Badosa, who turns 24 on November 15, is consolidating her excellent progression at the Indian Wells WTA 1000 this season. More visible because it is in the main tables, but it had been silently aiming since it entered the top-100 in 2019, when it finished that course in 97th place. In 2020 the pandemic announced better times with an eighth in Roland Garros, concluding the season in 70th place.
In this 2021 he has been unfolding his true potential, gripped for a long time by the frustration of not making the dreams designed with the junior title of Roland Garros in 2015 come true. He feigned to leave the racket, he went through the tunnel of depression, but he survived . He put things in their place, personally and sportingly. His natural talent worked, matured and flourished.
This Sunday, at 10:00 p.m. The Belarusian Victoira Azarenka.
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Badosa, champion in the WTA 250 from Belgrade, semifinalist in the WTA 1000 from Madrid, a quarterfinalist at Roland Garros, the Games and Cincinnati, is breaking into the big boys. His results, his game and also the world ranking say it.
On Monday, October 18, she will sign her best position in the WTA classification, she will improve the 26th as a personal record. If he wins the final, he will move up from 27th to 11th; otherwise, it will be 17th. Leaning on a top-10 mundial that it would be even closer if it were not for the correction factors applied by the WTA for months to free the agendas of the tennis players according to their desires to compete more or less in the most complicated times of the pandemic.
Ranking mundial WTA
(before the Indian Wells final)
1. Ashleigh Barty (AUS) 9,077 pts
2. Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) 7,115
3. Karolina Pliskova (CHE) 5,285
4. Barbora Krejcikova (CHE) 4,748
5. Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP) 4,530
6. Elina Svitolina (UKR) 4,135
7. Maria Sakkari (GRE) 4.055
8. Belinda Bencic (SUI) 3.835
9. Ons Jabeur (TUN) 3,545
10. Naomi Osaka (JPN) 3.326
11. Iga Swiatek (POL) 3.286
12. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS) 3.281
13. Sofia Kenin (USA) 3.131
14. Angelique Kerber (ALE) 3.105
15. Petra Kvitova (CHE) 3.080
16. Elena Rybakina (KAZ) 2.983
17. Paula Badosa (ESP) 2,946
18. Elise Mertens (BEL) 2,885
19. Simona Halep (ROM) 2,742
20. Anett Kontaveit (EST) 2,711
The Race, the ranking that collects only the points of this 2021, better shows the real situation in the elite of Badosa. It is tenth, although it will rise to eighth place if it conquers the Californian desert of Indian Wells. It would provisionally have a direct place in the WTA Finals of Guadalajara, the Masters that will bring together the eight best of the season.
There are four tennis players classified for the final event, from November 10 to 17. The australian Ashleigh Barty, whose presence is very doubtful, the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka and the Czechs Barbora Krejcikova and Karolina Pliskova have a guaranteed place.
Four starting positions remain to be sealed, with only two weeks of competition left after the current WTA 1000 in Indian Wells. The Polish Iga Swiatek (3,226 points), the Greek Maria Sakkari (3,157), the Spanish Garbiñe Muguruza (3.151) and the Tunisian Ons Jabeur (3.20) are the best currently placed.
Although Badosa, tenth with 2,762, would be eighth with 3,112 if she wins the final this Sunday.
Race to Guadalajara
(before the Indian Wells final)
1. Ashleigh Barty (Australia) 6.411 puntos
2. Aryna Sabalenka (Belarus) 4,669
3. Barbora Krejcikova (Czech Republic) 4,518
4. Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic) 4.036
5. Iga Swiatek (Polonia) 3,226
6. Maria Sakkari (Greece) 3.157
7. Garbiñe Muguruza (Spain) 3,151
8. Ons Jabeur (Túnez) 3.020
9. Naomi Osaka (Japan) 2,771
10. Paula Badosa (Spain) 2,762
11. Elina Svitolina (Ukraine) 2,501
12. Jessica Pegula (United States) 2,500
13. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Russia) 2,449
14. Elise Mertens (Belgium) 2,447
15. Anett Kontaveit (Estonia) 2,441
16. Angelique Kerber (Germany) 2,387
17. Cori Gauff (United States) 2,380
18. Emma Raducanu (Great Britain) 2,292
Naomi Osaka (2,771) would be a candidate to play, but has momentarily withdrawn from the courts. More distant applicants are Elina Svitolina (2,501) or Jessica Pegula (2,500).
