Paula Badosa bye to the Adelaide Open 500 tournament in the round of 16, losing to the American Ashlyn Krueger, 54th in the world and lucky loser of the tournament, by 7-6 (4), 6-7 (4) and 6-2 after an intense match that lasted two and a half hours.
Badosa, fifth seed, managed to level the first set after recovering two breaks, but in the tiebreaker he did not come out on top.
The script was repeated in the second set, with two breaks in each, but the Spaniard (12 WTA) took the lead this time in the tiebreaker, taking a quick 4-0 lead that she knew how to manage.
In the third set, the Spanish player was unable to complete decisive points and two new breaks gave the victory to Krueger (54 WTA), 20 years old, who had lost the only previous meeting between the two.
At the start of the season, the Catalan struggled in the 2 hours and 42 minutes of his previous first-round duel with Peyton Stearns. With this loss, she is on the verge of re-entering the top-10 of the WTA Tour, which she has not entered since October 2022, suffering from injuries.
Source: La Verdad
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