Badosa's body says enough

The start of the game was a mirage.

Although Paula Badosa scratched a

from Jessica Pegula as soon as the duel of the quarterfinals of the WTA 1000 in Miami began, it was quickly realized that the Spanish had not managed to recover from the problems that she had dragged on since the previous round.

Consequently, when she had already conceded a series of four consecutive games (1-4) and the clock registered only 18 minutes, the 24-year-old Catalan raised the white flag and withdrew against her will to her locker room. .

In this way, the dream of reaching the second step of the world

vanished, but the reward is not small.

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On Monday, Badosa will be listed as the third best player on tour, behind only Iga Swiatek and Barbora Krejcikova.

In the event that she had beaten Pegula and reached the semi-finals in the Florida tournament, she would have ousted the Czech, but her body definitely told her enough.

Again with a bad face, dizzy and short of breath, the Spanish woman immediately offered signs that she was not feeling well.

Playing defensively, that is, against her nature, she tried to shorten points and counterattack, trailing in exchanges and overwhelmed by physical problems.

She jumped onto the track and tried, but she was forced to slow down.

”After trying everything to recover, I couldn't continue competing.

These last few days have been hard, it is always difficult to withdraw from a tournament after fighting to get here”, the tennis player transmitted through social networks.

Two days before, Badosa had managed to overcome the pulse with the young Linda Fruhvirtova in three sets, between sufferings;

however, this Wednesday he was unable to overcome the indisposition and when she could not take it anymore – serve on loan on white and a double fault in the concession of the second – he barely went to the chair.

Without strength, she empties.

After a brief exchange with the tournament physical therapist, she told the judge of her abandonment and then she left Hard Rock Stadium moved by impotence.

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Semifinalist the previous week in Indian Wells, this time I couldn't cross the barrier of the quarterfinals;

in any case, his rise in the list confirms his progression, although in the coming dates he will have to defend the thick cushion of points (1,285) achieved last year on the clay court tour.

Badosa has played 22 games in this first quarter, with a record of 16 wins – just behind the number one, Swiatek (23) – and six losses.

Champion in Sydney in January, she aspired to follow in the footsteps of Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (titles in 1992 and 1993) and Carla Suárez (finalist in 2015), but finally she had to step aside and it will be Pegula who will face Swiatek or Petra Kvitova (quoted at 1.00).

The first semifinal will face this Thursday (9:00 p.m., Teledeporte and DAZN) Naomi Osaka (6-2 and 6-1 against Danielle Collins) and Belinda Bencic (6-1 and 6-2 against Daria Saville).

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Meanwhile, the tennis player from Begur will try to get ready for the clay tour, which in her case theoretically begins on April 4 in Charleston, where last year she beat the then

Ashleigh Barty, and reached the semifinals .

Then it is called for the commitment of Spain against the Netherlands of the Billie Jean King Cup (April 15 and 16) and then the appointments of Madrid (May 28-7), Rome (9-15) and Roland Garros (22 -5th June).

She will probably, she will have to select Badosa tournaments, the fifth player to retire between the heat, the humidity and, this time, also the Miami wind.

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