Paula Badosa It starts this Tuesday with the quarterfinals of the US Open. In the city where he was born 26 years ago, due to the professional commitments of his parents, who lived in the Girona town of Begur. And with an experience on his mind: he has a thorn in his side from Roland Garros 2021, when he fell victim to his own nerves against a rival within his reach, the Slovenian. Tamara Zidansek.
After many months of suffering from a complicated lumbar injury, which was thought to stop, he regained all his strength, which would one day take him to number two in the world. A few weeks ago she was not in the top-100, she is almost guaranteed to enter the top-20, after becoming the champion in the WTA 500 in Washington and semi-finalist in the WTA 1000 in Cincinnati.
And continue his impressive summer at the US Open, where in his four previous appearances he has never made it past the second round.
It has a historical quote. Fourth Spaniard in the quarterfinals of the US Open, he wanted to be third in the semifinals, which he did not get Carla Suarez in 2018, not so Arantxa Sánchez Vicariochampion in 1994, and Conchita Martínezwho reached the penultimate round.
Badosa has the tennis, confidence and physique (unless his back suddenly betrays him) to aspire to anything. Although the path is full of high obstacles.
He has no champion in front of him Coco Gauff, but he faces his executioner, the American too Emma Navarro23 years old and number 12, one of the revelations of the current campaign, repeating the quarterfinals of Wimbledon.
A duel with an open prognosis, with a favorable precedent for Paula Badosa on the clay of Rome, in May. He won 1-6, 6-4 and 6-2. “It will be a battle,” said the Spaniard, who was happy to make his debut at the Arthur Ashe center, not caring that the fans were supporting the opponent. “I am a player on big stages. Tennis has no meaning if it is not at the top, with the best,” she states emphatically.
You feel one of them when the conditions are favorable, like today. You’ll have a chance to continue showing it this Tuesday, at 6:00 pm Central European Time, noon in New York.
The tournament, which ends on Sunday, September 8, will be televised on Movistar Plus+on its Sports channels on M+, #Vamos and #Ellas. In addition to Movistar Plus+ dial 7.
You can also follow all at Mundo Deportivo website, through live streams of the best matches, like this Badosa-Navarro, and up-to-the-minute information on everything happening at the event.
Source: La Verdad
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