Paula Badosa returned to Roland Garros with the caution that she is fighting the back problems that left her in the last edition and she has not yet achieved the continuation of play as she desired. However, he taught interesting tennis in Rome, where he competed head-to-head with American Coco Gauff, US Open champion and also with a Roland Garros final on his record.
The ranking did not help the Spaniards, who were 140th due to little activity in recent months, void from July to December 2023 due to a stress fracture of a lumbar vertebra.
This low classification presented the first risk, which consisted of debuting against a seeded team. It was her turn with world number 28, British Katie Boulter. Within his range, he is not one of the worst rivals as he has never won Roland Garros.
But Badosa will now face a former runner-up finalist, American Sloane Stephens, or the dangerous Kazakh Yulia Putintseva. And in the third, the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, world No. 2, finalist in Madrid and Rome, beaten only by the Polish Iga Swiatek.
If the Catalan reaches the round of 16, she will cross the American Madison Keys, with the quarterfinals against the Greek Maria Sakkari or the Russian Daria Kasatkina. Although his great friend Sabalenka happened to be the biggest obstacle, already in the first week.
This will be the fourth participation in the main draw for Badosa, who made it to the round of 16 in 2020, from the previous phase, the quarterfinals in 2021 and the third round in 2022. He crashed out in 2023.
Source: La Verdad
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