Physically and emotionally frail, with only three wins in the last 11 matches, he has been left out of the WTA Finals.
Just under a year ago, despite losing to Garbie Muguruzaultimately champion of the tournament, in the semifinals of the WTA Finals, Paula Badosa He closed the best season of his life. Winner weeks before the WTA 1000 in Indian Wells, the Spanish concluded a formidable course, the first among the ten best. At 23 years old, after the long process that took her to approve the victory in the junior tournament at Roland Garros, in 2015, Badosa was running as one of the tennis candidates for everything.
Possessing unquestionable potential, the New York-born tennis player started 2022 well, taking the third title of her career in Sydney, and in April, after reaching the semifinals in Stuttgart, she climbed to number two in the world. Little by little, when her best performance was expected at Roland Garros, where she already walked to the quarterfinals in 2021, she progressively faded, until her withdrawal last Wednesday against Victoria Azarenka in the first round of the Guadalajara tournament, which ended all their chances of meeting again with the eight best of the course, also in Guadalajara, from October 31 to November 7.
The abandonment against the Belarusian when she lost 6-2, for reasons that were not very explicit, was the fourth of a year marked by physical problems. Before her, in the Miami quarterfinals, she was unable to finish her quarterfinal match against Jessica Pegula. In the third round of Roland Garros, he went down against VeronikaKudermetova due to an injury to the soleus of her right leg that kept her away from the competition for several weeks. Last summer, in her first game in Toronto, against Yulia Putintsevawas overcome by the heat and humidity when she lost 7-5 and 1-0.
New team
All of this took place with a new team led by George Garcia, who refused this Friday to attend to this newspaper. After fine-tuning his physical state from the hand of David Antona, Badosa, whose frailty had been a constant, decided to do without the double Spanish high jump champion for this season. The Spaniard confessed to this newspaper, in an interview before the start of the Mutua Madrid Open, that with the return ten years later together with Jorge García, she believed she had definitively found stability in his work group. In September 2021, the technician took over from Javier Martwho had taken the place of Xavier Budthe man who rescued her from ostracism, helping her out of a depressive process that threatened to compromise her professional future.
Badosa, who moved to Dubai last April, has only won three of his last 11 matches. I didn’t even win the patches, he wrote on his Twitter account after losing against Qinwen Zeng in the second round of the Tokyo tournament. Sweet tooth sweet tooth for paper magazines and too aware of social networks, a burden since his adolescence, he has felt the merciless scourge of some haters. There are many open fronts. To the physical vulnerability and the enormous difficulties to emotionally manage the status that he had acquired in the circuit, his little technical evolution is added. I am not Rafael Nadal nor am I going to be, he declared before the media after falling without presenting hardly any opposition to Simona Halep in the round of 16 at Wimbledon, showing his defensive attitude, his inability to cope with pressure.
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