The Spanish Paula Badosa will face Roland Garros as an aggregate top-5, third seeded, but at a difficult time, with a poor result he gives in to pressure, which he does to control and sign a great performance, which for him is play round of 16 end.
“I had a thorn in the side last year,” the tennis player confessed on Friday, referring to his elimination in the quarterfinals, in an intense match, when he became one of the sensations of the year.
Badosa acknowledges that Roland Garros It was his favorite tournament, the one that gave him the most joy, but also the one that relaunched his career and generated an additional load of pressure.
That’s why it tackled this edition with the aim of re -launching itself, after losing in the second round to Madrid and Romebut there is also great responsibility on their shoulders.
“I have to find the balance, that the pressure situation does not overcome me. The last two weeks I have felt a bit of saturation, I have not know how to manage my nerves. I have to prepare myself so that the motivation and the Desire allows me to put aside too much pressure, ”he said.
Badosa knew that part of his education was the sigh he went through, knowing how to deal with the situation when he felt overwhelmed.
“In recent weeks I’ve been sinking, I’m not fresh in thought, I may have felt too much pressure and the press keeps asking me about my defeats. That doesn’t help,” said the tennis player, who believes more he was ready to face this situation.
Paris is a great place to show it. Here he was proclaimed junior champion in 2015 and this was the first tournament he visited as a novice, when he was just 10 years old and came with his family to see. Rafael Nadal, his idol.
That’s where his career stood two years ago, when from the previous stage he reached the round of 16 and entered a new dimension, which he confirmed last year, when he reached the quarterfinals as the top seed.
Now he comes in as the third best in the rankings, after raising expectations with a brilliant start to the season where he won the sydney and, tired, reached the round of 16 at the Australian Open.
A good start made him fly too high and fall when the weather entered the clay court area, due to the pressure, which he is now trying to overcome with decisions such as leaving social networks, to “not read the comments were unsatisfactory “.
“Sometimes you fail and get stressed or have to read it’s not the best,” he said.
Source: La Verdad
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