Badosa starts 2025 with another loss to Brisbane

Paula Badosa started the year 2025 while she ended 2024, with a defeat. If on December 31 she fell in the individual draw against Armenian Elina Avanesyan (6-3, 1-6 and 6-2), this Wednesday, January 1, she said goodbye to the Brisbane doubles tournament.

The Catalan, along with the Tunisian Ons Jabeur, They were punished by their difficulties in winning the break points they had, as they won only one of seven throughout the match, and in winning points on their second serve, where the percentage remained at 14% . and they were clearly surpassed by one of the best couples in recent months, the Russians Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider.

The Olympic runners-up did not give any option to the Spanish-Tunisian pair, who could barely add five games to close the match with a clear 6-2, 6-3.

So, bad start to the season for Paula Badosa, already will immediately travel to Adelaide, where next week he will play his second tournament of the seasonthe last one before the start of the Australian Open on January 12.

The one advancing is Daria Kasatkina, third favorite, who eliminated American Peyton Stearns in three sets (7-6(7), 4-6, 7-5) after a duel in which there were as many as 16 breaks of service out of 45 options given.

Four of those breaks came in the first set, which was decided by a tie break that also saw seven points won on serve and in which the Russian needed up to three set points to win.

In the second, Stearns even lost her serve in the eighth game, but recovered in the next game and, eventually, won to take the match to the final set. It started with two breaks and saw as many as four breaks in a row between the sixth, which Kasatkina took after wasting up to eight break options, and the ninth game. Finally, again with the target and the others, he made the pass.

Her opponent in the next round is Polina Kudermetova, who won another duel with the Russians in the middle, against Liudmila Samsonovaafter saving up to 7 of the 8 breaking balls he faced. Despite this, the losing team won the first round after a tight tie break that was not enough as they lost the next two 6-3 and 6-2.

Things were worse for Emma Navarrosecond seed, who lost a double 7-5 against Australian Kimberly Birrell, world number 113.

The first set was decided between the ninth and eleventh games, with neither winning on their serve and the home team winning from the exchange. Already in the second half of the rivalry, after another six breaks between each other, the winner sealed their classification after winning the last eight points of the consecutive confrontation.

Now she will play against Russian Anastasia Potapova who defeated Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska 7-5 and 6-4sixteenth favorite. In this way she joined the list of eliminated seeds that also included her compatriot Marta Kostyuk and the Polish Magdalena Frech.

Kostyuk fell when he was beaten by Chinese Yue Yuan, who was very solid on the ball, winning up to 75% of the points played on his first serve, and will meet Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinia. For her part, Frech was surprised by Belgian Suzan Lamens (7-5, 6-3), American’s next rival Ashlyn Krueger, who recovered after serving first in both sets.

In addition, the Czech Linda Noskova, expected by the Russian Mirra Andreeva, eliminated the Romanian Anca Todoni 6-1 and 6-4. without providing any ‘break’ option; and Ukrainian Victoria Azarenka defeated 18-year-old Australian Maya Joint, turning around a match in which she started by losing the first set tie break to win the next two 6-2 and 6- 4. On his way he will meet the Czech Marie Bouzkova.