Badosa, to quarters in San Diego on the fast track

Tan solo 53 minutes I needed this Thursday the Spanish Paula Badosa to prevail by 6-0 y 6-3 to the american Louisa Chirico and qualify for the quarterfinals of the tournament San Diego WTA 500.

Badosa, number four in the world and second favorite in the Californian cement, debuted with an authoritative victory against a Chirico, number 196 of the rnkingwhich he had already won this season at the Wimbledon tournament.

The Spanish player recovered after a very complicated period, in which fell in the first round in Toronto, Cincinnati, Tokyo and Ostrava in which he didn’t get past the second round at the US Open. The last time she played a quarterfinal was in San José, a tournament that would end for her in the semifinals.

a great start

His start was unbeatable Badosa won the first set 6-0 losing only seven points. He was in a little more trouble in the second set, when he delivered twice his serve in his first three turnsbut his aggressiveness to the rest allowed him to sentence the duel on the fast track with a 6-3.

Badosa be measured this Friday, in the game that closes the central program, with the American Danielle Collinsa player who lives a good moment of form. number 19 in the worldeliminated with authority the French Caroline Garcia in the first round and beat Italian Martina Trevisan in the second. It will be the first confrontation between these two players.

Other results

Among the other results of the day in San Diego, the Polish Iga Swiatek, number one in the world, eliminated the Chinese Qinwen Zhengexecutioner of the Spanish Garbie Muguruza in the previous round, and met in the quarterfinals with the American Coco Gauff, winner against the Canadian Bianca Andreescu.

Swiatek and Gauff have already met in the US Open final this year, with victory for the Polish.

The other quarter duels will be between the Americans Madison Keys and Jessica Pegula and between Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka and Croatian Donna Vekic.