Badosa retired to Guadalajara and said goodbye to a year to forget: “I was sick for a few days”

The season is over for Paula Badosa. The Catalan player was eliminated this Thursday after being forced to retire in her match against Victoria Azarenka equivalent to the second round of the Guadalajara Open.

“I’m so sorry I didn’t make it, but I’ve been sick for a few days. I tried to recover in every way and it was not possible. I’m sad to leave because I’m excited to compete here in Guadalajara, where I have great memories” confessed the number 1 of Spanish tennis after the match.

Badosa’s problems, eighth in the world ranking, started with the break he suffered in the opening game. The ensuing 2-0 brought out Begur’s worst face, showing his discomfort with constant gestures of desperation towards his box.

The game continued to twist in the following games, with a very solid and focused Azarenka making it 4-0 on the fast track in front of an audience that clearly supported the Spanish player, one of the most loved and admired in Mexico.

The final stretch of the set was more even. Badosa finally got serve in game five, but it was too late. to raise the score against a player of Azarenka’s stature, who was unforgiving and closed the quarter with a clear 6-2 in just half an hour of play.

As everyone waited for the start of the second set, Badosa, who until then had shown no signs of physical discomfort, He approached Azarenka to tell her, to everyone’s surprise, that he was leaving.

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so, The Catalan puts the final point on a bitter period in which he has been less and where she did not achieve her great goal, to qualify for the second consecutive year for the WTA Finals.

“I must learn from this person’s experience, difficult, difficult, which I hope will be before and after my career. I have to manage the pressure. I have room for improvement and I hope to improve myself to become number one,” Badosa confessed to Efe after the game.

Paula Badosa joined the famous casualty list for the day, which began with the loss of second-seeded Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, who was defeated by Liudmila Samsonova of Russia 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 .

In other matches of the day, the American Third-seeded Jessica Pegula qualified for the Round of 16 with a 2-6, 6-3, 7-6(8) win over Elena Rybakinafrom Kazakhstan, who showed good level in his serving, but made some decisive errors in the “tie break”.

The success of the American is more comfortable Coco Gauuf, seeded fifth, 7-6 (1), 6-3 against Elisabeta Cociaretto of Italy.

For its part, the Russian Daria Kasatkina, seeded seventh, eliminated China’s Lin Zhu 6-1, 6-2 and her compatriot Veronika Kundermetova, eighth, defeated Croatian Donna Vekic 6-4, 7-5.

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Results of the second round

Viktora Azarenka at Paula Badosa 6-2 and retirement
Madison Keys d. Ajla Tomljanovic 3-6, 6-4, 6-3
Martina Trevisan defeated Katerina Siniakova 6-0, 4-6, 6-3
Cori Gauff d. Elisabetta Cocciaretto 7-6 (1), 6-3
Jessica Pegula defeated Elena Rybakina 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (8)
Sloane Stephens d Belinda Bencic 6-4, 6-4
Veronika Kudermetova beat Donna Vekic 6-4, 7-5
Jelena Ostapenko defeated Eugenie Bouchard 7-5, 2-6, 6-1
Danielle Collins def. Magdalena Frech 6-3, 6-4
Anna Kalinskaya defeated Elise Mertens 6-4, 0-6, 7-5
Marie Bouzkova beat Maria Camila Osorio 6-3, 6-1
Liudmila Samsonova d. Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 2-6, 6-2

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round of 16

Victoria Azarenka-Madison Keys (13)
Martina Trevisan-Coco Gauff (USA-5)
Jessica Pegula (3)-Bianca Andreescu
Sloane Stephens-Caroline Garcia (6)
Veronika Kudermentova (8)-Jelena Ostapenko (12)
Danielle Collins (14)-Maria Sakkari (4)
Daria Kasatkina (7)-Anna Kalinskaya
Marie Bouskova-Liudmila Samsonova