Another phenomenon has emerged in Spanish tennis. Her name is Paula Badosa and she is already in the quarterfinals at Roland Garros after having beaten Markéta Vondroušová in three sets. Now she will face Tamara Zidanšek in the quarterfinals at Roland Garros . At just 23 years old, he seems to have reached maturity on the track, despite starting the 201st year with a positive for coronavirus at the Australian Open. Conchita Martínez’s pupil won her first WTA title in Belgrade on May 22.
Since then, Paula Badosa has accumulated nine consecutive victories and will look for the tenth against Tamara Zidanšek to sneak into the semi-finals at Roland Garros. The bets are optimistic in this regard as they place the Spanish as the third favorite to win the tournament behind Iga Swiatek and Serena Williams, who are ninth and eighth in the ranking respectively.
Paula Badosa , who is the thirty-fifth, said about it: “It makes me laugh that they tell me that, it is true that I have done a good dirt tour, but we are talking about the biggest in history and another that has won a Grand Slam and a Masters 1.000 ”.
Paula Badosa was born in the United States but has Spanish nationality
Although Paula Badosa was born in the United States, her parents are Catalan and have Spanish nationality. Belonging to the Real Club de Tenis Barcelona, she was summoned by Conchita Martínez to play the Confederation Cup in 2014, when she was only 16 years old . In 2015, she was proclaimed champion of Roland Garros in the junior individual category, achieving the first Grand Slam of her youth career. That same year she made her debut on the WTA circuit reaching the third round at the Miami Masters . In 2017, she was proclaimed champion of Spain, defeating Carla Suárez in the final.
David Broncano and his previous participation in Roland Garros
In her previous participation at Roland Garros, Paula Badosa fell in the second round to Laura Siegemund , something that she attributed to some photos that came to light of her kissing with David Broncano: “I did not expect it, in this there is a radical difference between Barcelona and Madrid. It was not easy, as it happened two days before Roland Garros . It surprises you. Mentally it destabilizes you a bit , but Madrid is the capital and it is where everything is centered ”.
The similarities between Paula Badosa and Sharapova
Because of her relationship with the presenter, which broke up last October, and because of her beauty, Paula Badosa has gained great popularity off the slopes. Brands raffle off the tennis player, who is an influencer on social networks, where she has 118,000 followers .
It is not surprising that Paula Badosa has been compared to Maria Sharapova herself, something she also referred to in her day: “ Being compared to a player like that, who in the end is also my idol, is something that means a lot to me and it motivates me ”.
“Now I take it very positively, but perhaps at the time, when I was younger, it cost me more because of the pressure and expectations for comparing myself to such a great player , a unique and incomparable person,” continued the Spanish, who despite The successes it reaped in its beginnings, has gone through a bad stage until reaching 2021. ” It is true that this year has been the year of change, in which I have started to take off, playing and fighting with the best in the world, ” he added.
2021, the year of Paula Badosa’s take-off
For now, Paula Badosa has already surpassed her best result in a Grand Slam, which was precisely that of that Roland Garros that she played two days after her photographs with David Broncano and in which she fell in the fourth round. The tennis player, who has reached this new edition of Roland Garros after winning in Belgrade, reached the semifinals in the two previous tournaments she played, the Mutua Madrid Open and the Charleston tournament. Will Paula Badosa manage to reach that round at Roland Garros?
