The Romanian tennis player did not give the lone Spanish survivor in the women’s draw an option and went on to reach the quarter-finals after an hour of play with a resounding 1-6 and 2-6.
Paula Badosa’s dream at Wimbledon 2022 ended in the round of 16, just like in 2021, but with an unexpected pitcher of cold water after the level the Spanish had shown in her three previous matches in the tournament. Simona Halep was an insurmountable stumbling block, a storm to which there was no response. The Romanian needed an exact hour of play to reach the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time since the 2021 Australian Open and keep Badosa’s roof on London’s ceremonial grass in the fourth round.
And Badosa’s staging seemed powerful, solid with her third-round serve against Czech Petra Kvitova. This time, another Wimbledon champion had no choice with the Spaniards’ first serve. However, after also securing her opening kick, the Romanian went up in one piece and although she wasted her first ‘break’ ball of the match against the net, she failed to let the train pass twice and signed the break of the match. serve from the opponent to take the initiative of the first set. Early setback for Badosa, who has been able to keep over 90% of games under his serve in the tournament so far.
The Spaniard was in too much of a hurry, desperate for winners rather than playing it safe. Meanwhile, Halep showed a huge catalog of means to break the set with another ‘break’, this one blank and with no option for Badosa against his rival’s undeniable level with the rest. Another blank game, this time at the initiative of Halep, and another shipwreck on the service of the Spaniard, who missed the seventh game 40-15 in her favor, costing the first fifteen minutes to resolution three 23 minutes of play.
It looked like the Constanza tennis player was determined to speed up a day on center court from the long previous encounter between Brandon Nakashima and Nick Kyrgios, the enfant terrible of world tennis. In fact, the start of the second quarter caused pessimism with another blank game in favor of the Romanian. Badosa improved, there was no other option, to add his second game of the game and put the rival service in trouble. Today she is a mature tennis player, with the mental strength to overcome unfavorable moments and come out alive with two breakballs against her at 1-2 in the second round.
The level of the double Grand Slam winner was superlative, as in the best moments of her career and with a prodigious defense. Unsurprisingly, Badosa celebrated at 2-2 with a cry of fury and fought to the last drop to keep the tie in the second set. It was her last joy of the afternoon, as as she struggled to protect her serve, Halep’s winners continued to flow smoothly. Too many unforced mistakes by the Spaniard, more than twenty and several hits on the winner’s line in London in 2019 brought her two steps away from victory (2-4) with less than an hour of play.
Badosa put her index finger on her temple and claimed peace for herself after losing another match in white and Halep jerking off to secure a place among the top eight tennis players at Wimbledon, but there was nothing to do. Badosa leaves London with a bittersweet taste, leaving moments of top-notch tennis, but also drawing the worst possible epilogue to his time on English grass.
Source: La Verdad
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