In two years, Paula Badosa has gone from being number two in the WTA ranking to flirting with leaving the ‘top100’. Right now it is 99 on the lists.
Fate wanted everything to happen in Stuttgart. His defeat this Wednesday in the second round of the German competition, by abandonment at 3-3 in the third set, against her Belarusian friend Aryna Sabalenkahis executioner also this season at the Miami Open, makes him lose 48 points from the last edition.
The result was 7-6(4), 4-6 and 3-3 at the time of the Spanish player’s withdrawal, late in the morning.. There are already 33 abandonments on the track throughout his professional career. This time it was the thigh of his left leg. In the tiebreaker round they dominated 3-1.
The two tennis players merged into a hug at the net and Paula ended up crying in the arms of her opponent because her injuries prevented her from being a tennis player..
In 2022, a victory against Ons Jabeur, in the quarterfinals of the same tournament, placed her as the second best player on the women’s circuit. It was April 25. She and her other friend Jabeur won her first doubles match this week. The Tunisian was the last ‘top10’ that Paula beat in the second round of Rome 2023.
Both in the Mutua Madrid Open and in Rome, the next two events on his calendar, defends eighth (120 points) and fourth (215 points). That means he can fall out of the top 100 in the event of an early defeat..
Badosa has only been able to win six of the 14 games played this year. She is currently the fifth national racket in the WTA after Sara Sorribes, Cristina Bucsa, Rebeka Masarova and Jessica Bouzas.
2024-04-17 23:20:00
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