Carolina Marín Takes a Break: Skipping Madrid Spain Masters After Back-to-Back Victories

Carolina Marín is not competing this week in the Madrid Spain Masters, a prestigious international tournament on the BWF calendar that is held in the Spanish capital. She did participate in the presentation on Monday, but then she announced her resignation. The warrior needs a rest after chaining two titles in two weeks, a total of ten victories that led her to lift the trophies in the prestigious All England, a Super 1000, and in the Swiss Open, a Super 300, the same category that Madrid has. The British event, which she already won in 2015, is a kind of Wimbledon of badminton, bringing together the best rackets. Among the results of that week, she beat Chen Yu Fei in the quarterfinals, the number two in the ranking and current Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion, whom she has tamed in her last three duels. In the semifinals she beat Tai Tzu Ying, the number three and her executioner in the final of the last Masters. And in the match for the crown she got rid of Akane Yamaguchi, whom she aspires to unseat from fourth place in the world to arrive with a better team at the future Games.

Carolina is currently fifth in the rankings. She no longer intimidates like she did in her most glorious times, which she finished off with her Olympic gold in Rio 2016, when she was the rival to beat; But Marín is once again rubbing shoulders with the best, after having suffered two serious knee injuries and having had to reinvent herself to continue being competitive at 30 years old. Last year, the first she was able to complete after her recovery, she won silver in the World Championships and the World Tour Finals. In 2024 she already has two titles and several victories of merit. Next month she aims for the European crown for the seventh consecutive time. And in summer she appears in Paris, where she wants to get rid of the pain of losing her in Tokyo with another Olympic medal. She is on the right track. Rest will also pay off.

2024-03-28 16:53:47
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