MADRID, 18 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish tennis player Paula Badosa has said goodbye at the first change of the Cincinnatti tournament (United States), of category WTA 1,000 and played on hard court, after falling this morning against the Australian Ajla Tomljanovic (6-7 (3), 6-0, 6-2), who managed to turn the contest around after the Catalan won the opening set.
Badosa, number four in the world and third seeded in the North American competition, again showed signs of disconnection and, for the second time in a row, gave up in his debut, as happened a few weeks ago in Toronto. All in a duel that he began winning.
In fact, the Catalan recovered from an adverse first game, with a loss of service, and after two more breaks, she managed to take the first set in the ‘tiebreak’. From that moment on, his strength began to fail him.
The total blackout made him give up nine consecutive games, a set in white and a 3-0 in the third set, and the answers did not come. When he finally managed to win a game for 3-1, which he celebrated with a cry of relief, it was already too late.
Tomljanovic did not take pity on his opponent and, with a new break in the eighth game, ended the contest in two hours and ten minutes of play. Now, the oceanic will face the Russian Veronika Kudermetova in the round of 16, who achieved the pass due to the withdrawal due to injury of the winner of Toronto, the Romanian Simona Halep.