Badosa: “Difficult moments give me strength”

The Spanish Paula Badosa He made sure that he deserved to win his fight Daria Kasatkina and he felt it was unfair if he lost.

Badosa qualified for the round of 16 at Wimbledon on Friday for the third time in her career and won three matches in a row for the first time since Rome 2023 and Rome 2024, before the back injury that sidelined her last year .

“I felt the same in the first set,” the Spaniard said in a press conference about whether she deserved to win the match. “In the second set, maybe I lowered the level a bit and he raised it, but in the third I felt the same way. And there are times when you feel inside, right? Even though I was down 4-2, it was like I had the feeling that I couldn’t it’s fair if I lose today because I think I’m going for the game, I’m playing, I’m fighting for it, I’m tactically playing well because of a few details and he’s also taking advantage of my mistakes so I feel I deserve to win today.

The Spaniard commented that at some point in the third set the bad times he’s had recently with back problems entered his mind.

“I am a person with a long memory and I remember the difficult moments, so they also come to me at that moment in the game and in a part that also gives me strength. I remember the 4-3 down, the 5-4 up, in the third, I sat down, I closed my eyes and I thought about all that and that helped me and I think it gives me the strength to carry these moments forward.”

“It came to me when in February or March I couldn’t play. I had to withdraw from tournaments, from Indian Wells, which was a very special tournament, I was crying for many days and I was very bad at that time because I didn’t know what was going to happen and that moment comes to me a lot and the beginning of the gravel tour as well. , the Stuttgart moment, that retirement, the Madrid moment. Those difficult moments gave me strength.”