Paula Badosa25 years old and world no. historic WTA 1000 title in Indian Wells in 2021, defeating one of its references in the final, the Belarusian Victoria Azarenka.
Girona will have a complicated path to repeating that success, every round will be a trap. From March 8 to 19 he will move to a box where he will start against Granada Nuria Parrizas or the Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto.
Already in the third round, he will meet the Wimbledon champion and Australian Open finalist, the Kazakh Elena Rybakina.
Eighth against Russian Daria Kasatkina, quarters against the Tunisian Ounce Jabeur and hypothetical semifinals against the current queen of the tournament and world number 1, the Polish Iga Swiatek
On the other side of the table the Belarusian is closing Aryna Sabalenkathe queen of the Australian Open, who will fight against rivals such as Czech Barbora Krejcikova, American Coco Gauff, Greek Maria Sakkari or American Jessica Pegula to assert their second-seeded status.
The hypothetical round of 16
TOP OF THE FRAME
Iga Swiatek (Pol/1)-Beatriz Haddad-Maia (Bra/13)
Liudmilla Samsonova (Russ/12)-Caroline Garcia (Fra/5)
Ons Jabeur (Tun/4)-Victoria Azarenka (Blr/14)
Elena Rybakina (Kaz/10)-Daria Kasatkina (Rus/8)
LOWER PART OF THE FRAME
Maria Sakkari (Gre/7)-Veronika Kudermetova (Rus/11)
Petra Kvitova (Che/15)-Jessica Pegula (USA/3)
Coco Gauff (USA/6)-Belinda Bencic (Sui/9)
Barbora Krejcikova (Che/16)-Aryna Sabalenka (Blr/2)
Source: La Verdad
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