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Badosa and Australia, mixed feelings

2022-01-19T03:36:50.896Z


The Spanish shows her cards with an attack on Trevisan (6-0 and 6-3) in a scenario of extremes: from her first victory in a big one to the nightmare of 2021


In two games, Paula Badosa has hinted at where she is going.

Despite the fact that this is only her fourth parade through Melbourne, this year she has emerged as one of those indicated in the forecasts and she acts accordingly: from victory to victory, from

donut

to

donut

.

In Monday's debut she already showed her claws endorsing Ajla Tomljanovic a blank set and against the Italian Martina Trevisan she repeated.

She signed the seventh of her career in the elite (6-0 and 6-3, in 1h 12m) and landed in the third round of the tournament, thus achieving her best record in a territory that arouses mixed feelings in her.

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A year ago, at this point, Badosa was locked in a hotel room because she contracted the coronavirus during the flight that brought her to the country.

She was then transferred to a hospital where she stayed for another week, a total of 21 days, so that she only had one training session to face the competition and lost in the first round against an inferior opponent on paper, Liudmila Samsonova.

The Catalan came like a shot, but as soon as she regained her freedom she had to take the plane back.

"It was a nightmare, they treated me like a criminal," she recalls.

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Nothing to do with what happened three years earlier, when little by little he was leaving the ghosts behind and achieved his first victory in a Grand Slam. It was against the Swedish Johanna Larsson, and then she also left a clean set in the locker. "My head was inflated and I suffered depression," she told EL PAĂŤS after that match, before the appointment against the Czech Petra Kvitova, who took her out of the tournament but left her a good residue because she competed against the highly contrasted two-time Wimbledon champion of you to you. That day he premiered at the Australian central, to which he returned this Wednesday against Trevisan.

"I'm proud of myself.

A year ago I was locked up here and now I'm here”, she valued during the talk with the journalists, knowing that many of them include her among the candidates for the title in this edition.

“I am growing as a person and as a player day by day.

Everything works.

It's not easy to play as a favourite, it's a new experience for me, but I'm enjoying it and I'm happy.

I'm not going to lie, they feel nervous, but I have to focus on myself.

There are no secrets”, added the Spanish, quoted with the young Marta Kostuyk.

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Nadal's last abyss

He will reach the pulse with the Ukrainian with renewed energy, necessary because since he landed in Australia he has not stopped. First five games in Sydney, where he won the third trophy of his professional career and made another jump in the

ranking

, from eighth to sixth place, and so far three more in Melbourne. “I'm a little tired, so my plan is to do nothing. I have a couple of days to recover and I think I'll be 100% again”, she says, confident that she'll overcome the adductor discomfort that she's been dragging on since the first day, hence the bandage she wears on her right thigh.

“Having Nadal, everything will always seem little, but I am very proud of how far I am getting.

It is another step forward to play as a favorite and solve these types of matches well”, she concluded after eliminating Trevisan, with whom she shares a good friendship and who, like her, has the top spot in the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam.

Now it's Kostyuk's turn, who deprived her of a meeting with another friend, Sara Sorribes (7-6(5) and 6-3).

Meanwhile, the number one Ashleigh Barty continues to intimidate: she has only given three games in the first engagements.

This time, double 6-1 to Lucia Bronzetti.

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Source: elparis

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