“It has been a bad drink. He can’t just be on center court for an hour. I’m still in shock,” he admitted. Paula Badosa before the press after his resounding elimination in the round of 16 at Wimbledon. In 63 minutes the Romanian Simona Halep defeated her by a convincing 6-1 and 6-2.
“What happened? The truth? I’ve committed many errors. Nothing has come out of me. I’m taking another one today…..I’d rather not say it so it doesn’t make headlines tomorrow. I have a bad feeling, said the Catalan tennis player disappointed. She was the first to assume that bitter
The illusion was short-lived. Badosa started out ready to fight Halep. The memory of the defeat in Madrid still stung him (6-3, 6-1). He went out to propose a match of you to you and, from the outset, it seemed that she was going to get it. The first game he won blank. Hitting the ball hard and very solid. Halep held his pulse and after giving up five points in a row he began to dominate. The Romanian imposed a high rhythm on the game, power and a lot of speed to her ball that made it impossible for Badosa to follow.
After achieving the first break (2-1 ), Halep He no longer released the command to chain two new breaks (4-1 and 6-1) in a row (1-4 and 1-6), before a Badosa that she had lost her solidity and conviction surpassed by the forcefulness of the Romanian tennis player who aimed at the lines, looked for the setbacks and overwhelmed her from the bottom with counterattacks. The first set ended in 35 minutes with 13 unforced errors and only 2 winners for Badosa.
Impotence
The triumphal march of the Romanian tennis player continued in the second round. Badosa she had a break point in the third game, but Halep defended it bravely and aggressively to prevent the break. Badosa he also saved another three in the next game, but he was always slipstreaming from the rhythm imposed by his rival. He could not find the formula to break the situation. And in the sixth he couldn’t help it Halep He snatched his service for the fourth time and took a 4-2 lead that he did not let slip in the first ‘match ball’ that he had to close the match convincingly in 63 minutes.
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Halep He recognized upon his arrival at Wimbledon that he had had many difficulties with the confidence of his game, due to his recent results and due to the injury he suffered last year. She was a former world number 1 and Wimbledon champion in 2019, ranked 18th in the world, she had had anxiety problems a month ago at Roland Garros, when she fell in the second round prey to “a panic attack”which blocked it.
No one would say that he would have had them watching his match with Badosa. The Romanian tennis player, now trained by Patrick Moratoglouformer coach of Serena Williamsdid not accuse that anxiety, on the contrary, he announced his candidacy for the title.