The turmoil experienced in the women's tournament has projected players that no one counted on into the final rounds.
Two of them appeared on Monday to open the week on the track
Simone Mathieu
, third in the hierarchy.
Paula Badosa
, 22 years old, arrived at the best moment of her career, after leaving behind two Grand Slam champions
Sloane Stephens
and
Jelena Ostapenko
.
Ten years older, the German
Laura Siegemund
, 66th, has also managed to break through in a table that in two rounds no longer had any of the four semifinalists in the United States Open (
Naomi Osaka
, the champion, decided not to come to Paris ), saw fired last Sunday
Simona Halep
, first seeded and champion in 2018, and has only three
top ten
among the best 16.
The Spaniard, 87th, missed a good opportunity to advance to the quarterfinals and fell 7-5, 6-2, in one and 36 minutes.
Her tournament has been good, but she could not with an affordable rival, which she dominated by 5-3 and service in the first set.
Cared for in the lower back when she was 2-1 and
break
down in the second set, the New York-born tennis player did not react to the impact of giving up the opening set.
Paula Badosa meets the requirements demanded by modern tennis.
It hits deep from both sides, is effective on the starting shots and is above 1.80.
She has been slow to make the push, to get fully into a Grand Slam draw and compete with the vigor she aimed when she became the second Spanish to win the junior tournament at Roland Garros in 2015.
The road has not been easy, with symptoms that are not uncommon in these cases.
Paula was frustrated by not responding to expectations, she faced anxiety problems and needed the help of a specialist.
Still a lot to do
What happened against Siegemund shows that Badosa is still a polished player, with evident room for improvement.
He lacks track mobility and consistency of mind, as well as reflecting on professional decision-making in a race in which he has taken several turns too quickly.
After a year and a half working with
Alejo Mancisidor
, he returned to the starting point.
It was
Xavi Budó
and
Víctor Carceller
who put it on stage five years ago.
Budó also has, in its second stage, the merit of raising it to the
top 100
and thus regularizing its presence in the WTA tournaments.
It was he who helped her out of a delicate emotional situation and put her on the map of the tournaments of the WTA circuit.
Last year he reached the semifinals in the Palermo and Istanbul tournaments, already in good competitive dynamics, beginning to get used to setting foot in the
majors
.
Surprisingly, days after losing in the first round of the recent United States Open, his professional relationship with Budó ended and he hired
Javier Martí
, a 28-year-old former Spanish player whose promising future has been harmed by injuries,
as his coach.
.
Siegemund, with intelligence and good handling of the left-overs, took the victory without too many difficulties, both by his own merit and by the lagoons of Badosa, who has enough work to do to become what he wants.
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