Life smiled on Badosa again: he returned victorious

Track 15 of the All England Club. Smile Paula Badosa looking at his technical team. More than a month after playing his last tournament match in Rome, missing Roland Garros due to a vertebral stress fracture, he returned with a victory at Wimbledon.

Shortening in terms of time loss to the maximum, with a week of training, ladybugstill wearing the protective sash, once again met with victory on the London grass.

The Catalan, 25 years old and world number 35, defeated the American Alison Riske-Amritraj, 33 years old and number 141, 6-3 and 63 in one hour and nine minutes of play.

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Everything went well. ladybug he stuck to his serve, a natural weapon, and took advantage of a poor quarterfinalist run at Wimbledon 2019 but lost eleven of their last twelve matches, having yet to recover from a foot injury.

ladybug closed the classification winning 23 of 25 points on the first serve, 13 of 28 with the second. A single ‘break’, at the first turn of the second set, when he was ahead. The punch of the Begur man who was also pointing correctly.

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To be a return, more than positive. This Thursday, in the second round, there will be more. Against a friend he has met many times in other professional categories, from the tournaments below, the Ukrainian Martha Kostyuk21 years and nº 36.

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The eighth favorite, the Greek, was surprised Maria Sakkari, 0-6, 7-5 and 6-2. This was his third appearance in the second round of Wimbledon, where ladybug he made eighth in 2021 and 2022. And he’s lost three times costume, who cried with emotion after the return. A few weeks ago, at Roland Garros, the Ukrainian was booed for not congratulating the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka after his duel.

Life was smiling for Badosa the day the tournament announced that she would form a pair in mixed doubles with her Greek boyfriend Stefanos Tsitsipas. They did not meet for some time, when Paula closed her classification, the Greek lost the fourth set and ended up in the fifth against the Austrian. Dominic Thiem.