From Paula Badosa's walk to 'Ali' Tsonga's goodbye

Paula Badosa wanted to step on the Roland Garros central again, to test herself and to start removing the bittersweet aftertaste with which she had landed in the great French tournament, but there was no way.

Before she intervened against local Fiona Ferro, the excitement of the afternoon delayed her coming-out.

Jo-Wilfred Tsonga said goodbye to tennis,

Tsonga, the puncher who, in addition to bearing a more than reasonable resemblance to the legendary boxer, wanted to sign a good last dance and resisted until the end, although Casper Ruud knocked him down.

Then came the tribute, the greetings, the videos, the crying... and the Spaniard, fourth best racket in the world, waiting in the locker room.

"I'm pretty intense, so I like to work hard and warm up a lot, although maybe today I had to do it a bit more because I had to wait for Jo... So next day I'll have to tell my trainer to calm down," the Catalan joked after an episode that began in slow motion due to the goodbye to Tsonga, and that later went on at full speed: in just 54 minutes, Badosa had already resolved the

premiere (6-2 and 6-0) and he had won the appointment in the second season of the tournament with the Slovenian Kaja Juvan.

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“Honestly, I didn't come here in the best way confidence-wise.

It costs a lot to build, but it goes very fast” she introduced.

"I think that tennis-wise I'm fine, but mentally I've taken several steps back since Madrid, so every game and every minute on the court will help me gain the confidence I need", continued the Spaniard, delighted to savor a duel in the Chatrier, the stage where last year she lost in the quarterfinals against Tamara Zidansek and where she has dreamed of succeeding so many times, because she does not forget that visit as a child to see Nadal.

Today, she is already a reality, looking among the strongest on the circuit and ready to reverse the negative dynamics of recent weeks.

In the Caja Mágica she felt the extra pressure, because of playing at home, and then in Rome she couldn't beat Kasatkina in the second match.

Hence the value of this first step in Paris, the match resolved in a jiffy.

“Yes, it was fast.

At the beginning she was quite nervous… but I think I played well”, she valued, knowing that four

have already fallen –Krejcikova, Kontaveit, Jabeur and Muguruza– and that, therefore, all the players, without exception, they are on alert.

Emphatic 💯@paulabadosa needs just 54 minutes to defeat Fiona Ferro 6-2, 6-0 and advance to the second round.#RolandGarros pic.twitter.com/fUmtRU4Zlm

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“It is more of a warning than anything else, because in the end you can lose with anyone.

This happens a lot in girls, but it also happens a lot in boys;

I think it makes it much more interesting, because always knowing the end of the film… You have to be one hundred percent every game, and playing as a favorite has something deceptive about it, ”she continued.

“As we are at Roland Garros, we are going to think about Wimbledon, right?” She joked when asked if she has the conviction that she can win the title on June 4;

"I do not know i do not know.

Anything can happen.

I think that if I manage to get through the first games, I can opt for this”.

It was an afternoon with the aroma of farewell.

Tsonga definitely left, at the age of 37, leaving behind those fierce blows and that final in Australia (2008) against Novak Djokovic.

"The tennis adventure is formidable," summed up the Le Mans man.

And tennis turns the page, a new order arrives and Carlos Alcaraz, quoted this Wednesday (around 3:00 p.m., Eurosport) with Albert Ramos, appears with more force than anyone else.

Rafael Nadal will also intervene (not before 8:30 p.m., against Corentin Moutet) and number one, Djokovic, in a morbid encounter: it will be against his compatriot Alex Molcan, now trained by Marian Vajda, whom he dispensed with only two months ago.

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