With the retirement of Garbiñe Muguruza still reverberating, this Sunday, the Mutua Madrid Open drew its women’s draw. In it, despite the injury she suffered this week in Stuttgart, Paula Badosa did appear, 93rd in the world and in the hype through her protected ranking, to which she is entitled due to the back problems that have still persisted this year. This time, however, her discomfort is located in the adductor of her left leg, with a small tear. If these do not prevent her, the Spanish will debut against a rival from the previous one, such as Sara Sorribes (26th). The other national player who will start from the main draw, Cristina Bucsa (38th), will do so against the Croatian Petra Martic (59th).
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Mutua Madrid Open 2024 women’s draw.
Advancing on the side of the draw led by the first seed, the Polish Iga Swiatek, by ranking, Badosa could face the Latvian Jelena Ostapenko (10th), the Russian Veronika Kudermetova (19th), the Tunisian Ons Jabeur (9th ) or the American Coco Gauff (3rd), already in the quarterfinals, with the number one as a possible rival in the semifinals. “This is the tournament in which she made the leap and in which she saw that she could be among the best. “Hopefully this year will help you regain your confidence,” the tournament director, Feliciano López, dedicated to Paula during the draw, in reference to the penultimate round that the Spanish reached in 2021. For Sorribes, who serves as leader of the Armada If you look at her WTA classification and also on Swiatek’s side, the first dangers would be the Ukrainian Elina Svitolina (18th) and the Russian Victoria Azarenka (25th).
In a table with all the players in the top-10, the aforementioned Swiatek, for her part, will begin her path towards a title that she does not yet have in her record (last year she was a finalist) against the winner of the match between the Chinese Wang Xiyu (54th) and the Romanian Ana Bogdan (64th). Azarenka or Svitolia (eighth), the Greek Maria Sakkari (6th) or the Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia (13th), in the quarterfinals, and Gauff or Jabeur (semifinals) would be their hypothetical rivals on a path in which they avoided Elena Rybakina (4th ), on the side of Aryna Sabalenka (2nd), second seed. The Belarusian, for her part, will start against the winner of the clash between the Polish Magda Linette (48th) and the Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto (55th). The Czech Marketa Vondrousova (8th) would be her main danger in the quarterfinals and she would meet Rybakina in the semifinals.
Eight Spanish since the previous one
From the previous round, eight Spaniards will also seek the main draw. Among them, Nuria Párrizas (129th), Rebeka Masarova (80th) and Jéssica Bouzas (90th). The first will debut against the German Jule Niemeier (109th) and the second, against the American Sachia Vickery (139th). The third, for her part, in her first tournament as a top-100 player at 21 years old and in great shape (this year, she has won a WTA 125, an ITF W50 and a W75), will debut against the also North American Claire Liu (115th). With them, more or less experienced players on the circuit, Guiomar Maristany (293rd), Leyre Romero (301st), Carlota Martínez (249th), the young Ariana Geerlings (731st), 18 years old, and Irene Burillo ( 237th), which last year already reached the second round as ‘qualy’.
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2024-04-21 16:42:06
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