Paula Badosa will appear for the fifth time in the main draw of the Australian penny. He debuted in 2019, he achieved his best result in 2022, reaching the second round. One of the examples of his dazzling rise to shoulders with the best and settled at number two in the world.
Everything went wrong in 2023, also in Melbourne. He was sidelined due to a muscle injury in his right thigh. He lost a lot of points and lost his top-20 status.
The worst will come later. A stress fracture in a vertebra, spotted in May during the WTA tournament in Rome, led to an ordeal from which she tried to escape eight months later.
Goodbye to Roland Garros, it turns out that the return to Wimbledon will be short-lived because the pain wants that. Farewell to the campaign, until this January he returned to play, in Adelaide, thanks to an invitation from the organization. Lost in American Bernarda Pera by 3-6, 6-2 and 6-3.
Sign of difficulties faced Paula Badosa, at 26 years old will have to fight back from his current position of 74 in the world ranking. “I’ve been on a couch for seven months, everything takes time. I know it’s a process that will take time, but I feel prepared,” she says.
She doesn’t want to let her guard down, knowing that “now that I’m in the tournaments and that I’m going to compete, I would like not to be where I am, in the ranking. It’s hard for me to assimilate and see it. I’m a competitive and proud person, maybe I don’t have very good times.” seeing myself in this situation now.”
He suffers from it, but has no solution but himself. “What worries me the most is the physique. I think that, tennis-wise, tennis is always there. Before I was number two in the world, when I was top-10 or now that I am. I think that tennis is always there . What worries me the most. The worry is how I’m going to handle it mentally and how I’m going to be physically,” he said.
He will debut in the first round of the 2024 Australian Open with American Taylor Townsend, world number 80. No background.
As a reference for Paula Badosa, her work sessions in Melbourne. “I have trained a lot. I always try to train with players like Sabalenka, Rybakina or Jabeur. I like to train with them to see where I am and how long I can last that intensity as well.”
Source: La Verdad
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