Paula Badosa You have reasons to fail within hours. He is a born champion, competitive to the max. He doesn’t want to lose anything. And defeat, when it is on the surface, hurts in any case. Also in the semifinals of the Australian Open, the debut in a penultimate round of the Grand Slam.
After the bad news, the Spaniard, 27 years old and world number 12, will enjoy his semi-finalist result at Melbourne Park. The confirmation that the teenager who was the junior winner of Roland Garros and climbed to No. 2 in the ranking in the professional universe once again became one of the greats.
Eight months ago I was crying. He feared that a vertebra injury would leave him without tennis due to a forced admission as a cure to avoid retirement or a slow decline in the sport he loves so much. He is, as of May 2024, number 140 in the world. Next Monday he will be back in the top-10, he will be ninth or tenth.
He left no historical work on Australian Openunable to compete in the finals of his compatriots Arantxa Sánchez (1994 and 1995), Conchita Martinez (1998) and Garbine Muguruza (2020), but he has nothing to blame himself for. Not his fault, but one of his best friends, even Melbourne’s worst enemy, the Belarusian. Aryna Sabalenka.
Treat your roots well Paula Badosawho appeared to fight without complications. But it collided with the reality of Aryna Sabalenka, 26 years old, energetic, who prevailed on 6-4 and 6-2 in 1h.26′. The two-time champion will play in the final against the Polish Iga Swiatek or the American Madison Keyslooking for a hat trick at the Australian Open, something no one has achieved since the Swiss signed it Martina Hingis between 1997 and 1999.
The world number one, a position he defends with the need to do better than Iga Swiatek, add 20 consecutive victories at the Australian Open. Identical figure in the Grand Slam because he won the last US Open.
Badosa struggled, but was unable to defeat an opponent who had beaten him for the sixth time in a row in eight fights. The 2-0 in favor of the student of Pol Toledo He promised a lot, confirmed the maturity of the tennis player from Begur. But Sabalenka’s 4-0 run confirmed the Girona native’s fears. Yes, he gave himself to the defense, but he couldn’t attack like at other times because the Belarusian has no match for his powerful hitting. He explodes the ball at every point, and is becoming more regular and less desperate than before.
Sabalenka’s 6-4 in 53 minutes showed that the defending champion is in a sweet moment (unbeaten this season after eleven matches), that Badosa will suffer despite the fact that he is good that performs. Indoors, which had to be closed after the fifth game due to rain.
The Belarusian roller became unbearable for the Spaniards. So demanded, two double faults were the beginning of the end when they experienced the ‘break’ in the third game (1-2). Badosa wanted to, but couldn’t.
Sabalenka’s rhythm and success are remarkable. For now, it’s out of reach for Paula on her way to continuing to flirt with big conquests in this campaign, as revealed since last summer.
Source: La Verdad
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