Halep disarms Badosa and qualifies for the quarterfinals

The Central had been left half empty after

' match , one of the best claims in modern tennis.

The duel that followed was not detracted from, with an emerging player and the former number 1 in the world and winner of the tournament in 2019. The struggle, however, was in little due to the superiority of

, who knew how to find the return

and defeated

her 6-1, 6-2, in 59 minutes, qualifying for the quarterfinals.

The Romanian, always distinguished for her intelligence in planning matches, for her ability not only to disarm her opponents but also to obtain benefits from the virtues of others, caricatured Badosa's game, off-kilter, erratic, and faint-hearted.

After beating double tournament champion

, the fourth-seeded Spaniard again faced a pedigree opponent in the tournament.

At 30 years old, Halep is struggling to recapture her enthusiasm that led her to translate her skill at this game into great successes.

Champion on these pitas in 2019 and winner a year earlier at Roland Garros, the former world number 1 has embarked on a new stage at the hands of

, the mentor of

in her second period of splendor.

With the water up to the neck

In many moments with the water up to his neck, Badosa could not take advantage of a ball that would have given him oxygen in the second game of the second set and suffocated three that carried the vitola of a sentence.

The first partial had been a sigh, the eloquent representation of how ingenuity prevailed over the punch.

Like the Spanish, Halep appeared in the round of 16 with intact credit, without having given up a single set and ready to claim the weight of the old generation.

The player from Constanza brought back the close memory of a clear victory against Badosa, to which she only consented four games in the second round of the Mutua Madrid Open.

This time there were only three, because the Romanian did not miss the next three to take another bite of the marker.

Carried from side to side continuously, with hardly any chance to hit in position, Badosa was a puppet handled with care by the talent of Halep, who offered a lesson in how tennis should not go only through power, but also allows players like her, who know how to season it with salt and pepper.

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