40-0 Badosa. Exciting start to the game. The best version of the Catalan this season. Recovery of sensations.
Paula Badosa – Coco Gauff 2-3
I play on 30 Gauff. Winning, resounding forehand. Not a single soft ball was spared.
30-30 Badosa, winning return from a parallel forehand, punishes the American’s second soft serve. THE WIND IN ROME, another element to deal with.
30-15 Gauff. He complains about Badosa’s bad bounce of the ball. 16 minutes, tennis at full speed. Everything is very fast.
Paula Badosa – Coco Gauff 2-2
I play 15 Badosa. Good start for a quarterfinalist in the tournament in 2023. He hasn’t been beaten by a top-10 player since. He passed his friend Ons Jabeur. Now he follows Coco Gauff.
40-15 Badosa, serves well. And immediately looking for a right-wing war, avoiding the retreat of the rival.
15-15 Badosa, from a double fault to a first serve that quickly gives her the point.
0-15 Gauff. Badosa’s second double fault.
Paula Badosa – Coco Gauff 1-2
I was playing 15 Coco Gauff, who closed with his first ace. Two players who like to rely on the serve, also on clay. The American hits more directly, the Spanish also attack but treat the ball more.
30-15 Gauff. Badosa letting go, showing his right.
15-0 Gauff. The forehand duel, with centered balls, closes with a surprising parallel forehand winner.
Paula Badosa – Coco Gauff 1-1
Game 30 Badosa, closed his first turn of serve there is an ace Good reaction after a double fault.
40-30 Badosa. First double fault for the Spaniards.
40-15 Badosa. More fun playing after months of suffering from back pain.
30-0 Badosa, gained confidence in this tournament. Right wins.
Paula Badosa – Coco Gauff 0-1
Right into Badosa’s net, Gauff’s game at 30, winning the first match point with a double fault.
40-30 Gauff. One of his weapons, the serve. A good first without an answer.
30-30 Badosa held the rally well, but he was aggressive and the parallel forehand was long.
15-30 Badosa. A bit cold Coco Gauff. On the net itself. In his box, his trainer Brad Gilbert.
0-15 Badosa. Coco Gauff starts with a double faultwith the US Open and final at Roland Garros under his belt.
Paula Badosa – Coco Gauff 0-0
The match begins, serving Coco Gauff, this season’s champion in Auckland and semi-finalist at the Australian Open.
An entity chair umpire
Considered one of the best current referees, the Croatian Marija Cicak is in the chair.
Bad, bigger wear
He played three games, spending 6h.06′ to reach the round of 16. Gauff, who was exempt in the first round, needed 3h.32′ on court to win his two previous matches.
There is an opponent in the quarterfinals
China Qinwen Zhengwho defeated the Japanese Naomi Osaka 6-2 and 6-4.
Players on the court, warming up
Paula Badosa, 26 years old and No. 126 in the world, and Coco Gauff, 20 years old and No. 3 in the world, is warming up in the second capacity stadium of the Foro Italico.
Favorable honors for Badosa
He won 3 out of 4 games against Coco Gauff. The most recent precedent dates back to Madrid 2023, the only previous one on clay. The Spanish won 6-3 and 6-0.
An interesting test for Paula Badosa
Since Rome 2023, when he made the quarterfinals, that Paula Badosa she has never won three consecutive matches in a WTA tournament. It was in Italy where he began to suffer from back pain, eventually discovering a stress fracture in a vertebra. Half a year blank and physical consequences that he had to endure for years to come, as he himself revealed.
In the work done in the Foro Italico, he measures himself against the highest moment, the world number 3 Coco Gauff.
What time does Badosa play and where can it be seen on TV?
Their fight was scheduled not earlier than 1 in the afternoon, but it was later because Alex de Minaur returned from Felix Auger-Aliassime in the Grand Stand Arena, in a three-hour fight.
On television you can see it on Teledeporte. Also on DAZN for streaming.
Paula Badosa – Coco Gauff
Hello, good afternoon. In a few minutes, match between Spanish and American. Round of 16 of the WTA in Rome.
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