Paula Badosa, 25 years old, she will regain seven positions in the next WTA world ranking, rising from 42nd to 35th position, after reaching the round of 16 at the Mutua Madrid Open, where she lost to the Greek Maria Sakkari.
The drop in ranking has the most immediate negative impact that it does not start as a seed in the most relevant tournaments, complicating the trajectory in them.
This has happened to WTA 1000 in Romefrom May 9 to 20, where he must start in the opening round, where the 32 seeded colleagues will be eliminated.
ladybug is working with his new team, the coaches Pol Toledo and Edu Estevethe physical trainer Jordi Verdaguer. It starts at the Foro Itálico, on Tuesday or Wednesday, against a tennis player from the previous stage. But in the second he will meet the fourth favorite, the Tunisian Ons Jabeur, who was unable to defend the crown in Madrid due to a muscle injury sustained in Stuttgart.
If he continues to advance, because the situation is not favorable for important rivals, who also do not want to find the former world No. 2 very quickly on their journey, he will have a 16th with his Ukrainian friend. Martha Kostyuk.
In the eighth he will face the Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, very fit, or even the always dangerous Italian Camila Giorgi.
In the rooms, the Russian Daria Kasatkina or the check Barbora Krejcikova. ‘Semis’ against world number 1 and finalist in Madrid, Iga Swiatekalso in the last big test for Roland Garros.
For its part, Granada Nuria Parrizas will open against Jule Niemeier of Germany, and Veronika Kudermetova (11) of Russia awaits next. AND Cristina Bucsa will debut with the American Sofia Kenin, a rivalry in which the queen’s first rival of the Mutua Madrid Open, the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka.
In ‘qualy’ they will bid for a place Rebeka Masarova, Aliona Bolsova and Marina Bassols.
The hypothetical 1/8 final
Iga Swiatek (Pol/1)-Liudmila Samsonova (Russ/16)
Maria Sakkari (Gre/9)-Elena Rybakina (Kaz/7)
Ons Jabeur (Tun/4)-Ekaterina Alexandrova (Russ/15)
Barbora Krejcikova (Che/10)-Daria Kasatkina (Rus/8)
Coco Gauff (USA/6)-Veronika Kudermetova (Russ/11)
Karolina Pliskova (Che/13)-Jessica Pegula (USA/3)
Caroline Garcia (Fra/5)-Beatriz Haddad Maia (Bra/12)
Victoria Azarenka (Blr/14)-Aryna Sabalenka (Blr/2)
Source: La Verdad
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