There was no shock on Center Court on Monday between Simona Halep and Paula Badosa. Winner of the tournament in 2019, the Romanian qualified for the quarter-finals of the 2022 edition by easily winning against the Spaniard (6-1-6-2), whom she had already beaten on a similar score in Madrid (6-3, 6-1).
In an early game where both players made a few mistakes, Simona Halep struck first, breaking in the third game on a superb cross backhand passing. Quickly put under pressure, Paula Badosa multiplied the unforced errors (12 in the first set alone) without managing to find a solution to stop suffering the lightning forehands of her opponent.
Halep to experience
Varying wonderfully the service zones then practicing the “windshield wiper” to overflow his vis-à-vis between the end of the first set and the start of the second, Halep used all his experience to send a Badosa that was far too crumbly . If the 4th player in the world offered herself a reprieve by saving two break points in the fourth game of the second set, she continued to be dominated in the exchange, finally yielding on a last forehand fault.
