She arrived at the tournament thanks to an invitation and has become the first Spanish to reach the semifinals of this Mutua Madrid Open.
Paula Badosa
, junior champion of Roland Garros in 2015, relaunches her figure with the victory against
Belinda Bencic
by 6-4 and 7-5. "I'm at a point where I can't help believing," he said after the biggest win of his career. This Thursday the winner of the match between
Ashleigh Barty
, world number 1, and
Petra Kvitova
awaits him in the semifinals
. Badosa already beat Barty recently in the quarterfinals of the Charleston tournament.
"I have remembered my team,
Javi [Martí
, his coach],
David Antona,
my physical trainer. A few months ago I would not have endured this game, people who have contributed a lot to me for a while, like my first coach, who she has already passed away. A few months ago, physically she would not have held out, "continued the player of New York origin, without mentioning
Xavi Budó
, the man who rescued her from the depths of the ranking at critical moments in her still incipient career. before their professional relationship was broken last September.
"Yesterday [for Tuesday]
Piqué
congratulated me
and I thank him very much, because I am a Barça fan and he is Catalan," said 23-year-old Badosa, number 62 in the ranking.
Victim of the coronavirus after a tortuous trip to Australia, he has amended the pace in an interesting season to check his true projection on the circuit.
His outstanding participation in Madrid, a tournament desirous of having a local tennis player who feeds interest in the women's team, endorses the good results of recent weeks.
"I am very emotional, very expressive and spontaneous. It is also the emotion of playing at home, in Madrid."
This is how she explained her reaction after the victory, kneeling on the sand of the Arantxa Sánchez Vicario track, in the Caja Mágica.
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