Carolina Marín, without having to play, is already in the quarterfinals of the Madrid Spain Masters. The Huelva native was to play her round of 16 match today against India’s Malvika Bansod, who withdrew from the tournament for bureaucratic reasons related to her visa. Bansod, who yesterday beat the Malaysian Kisona Selvaduray, is 40th in the world and this season has accumulated one win and five losses. After her forced goodbye in the capital, her record will stay the same.
Caroline, for her part, tomorrow she will face the Indian Aakarshi Kashyap (42nd) or the Japanese Natsuki Nidaira (34th). Yesterday, with more ease than expected, the woman from Huelva beat the Danish Line Kjaersfeldt (21st) by 21-14 and 21-11 in 32 minutes. “The sensations on the track have been good. The most important thing in the first game of each tournament is to control the steering wheel, the pavilion and the conditions. Beyond the strategy against the rival. Then, playing at home is always exciting. People give you that little push ”, she said, smiling, after the victory.
The best possible statements after going through a strong flu process. Two weeks ago, Carolina was forced to leave the all england open for sickness. Yesterday, despite the fact that he still has runny nose and a bit of a cough, he was in great shape. “Coming from a fairly complicated flu is not the best. Right now, I am not 100%, but I am very close to it, ”she celebrated. “In the end, the sensations do not go away because of the flu. The work that has been done is still there. I would have loved it to come out in the all englandbecause it was the tournament we were preparing, but unfortunately it wasn’t like that”, he added.
Since December, she plays totally free, without pain in her kneeand in his words, in addition, some improvements were inferred in the game that yesterday, against Kjaersfeldt, were already palpable. “We have worked on a different type of attack, which has never been done before and which is completely out of its comfort zone, which requires a lot of confidence and a lot of mental resources. And we have accompanied him with some skills in the network ”, explained his coach, Fernando Rivas, to this newspaper before the Madrid tournament. Tomorrow, he will put it into practice again.