Fantastic. There is no word that better defines Paula Badosa and her week in Indian Wells. He made his debut in the main draw of the so-called fifth Grand Slam and on Sunday (22:00, Teledeporte) he will play the final after beating Ons Jabeur out of hunger for glory and courage (double 6-3 in 1h21). He will do it against the two-time tournament champion and former world number one, Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, who beat Latvian Jelena Ostapenko in a tough duel (3-6, 6-3 and 7-5 in 2h20).
“I don’t know if I’m dreaming,” said Badosa, who became the first Spanish to reach the semifinals in the California desert on Friday since Conchita Martínez in 2003.It also continued until the Aragonese title match, which played the finals in 1992 and 1996. She lost against two ranking leaders, Monica Seles and Steffi Graf. Now Paula will have the opportunity to inaugurate the women’s record of the Navy in a very prestigious event, a WTA 1,000 on hard court.
What he has already achieved is entering the world top-20 for the first time. At the moment she is 17th and if she lifts the trophy in a couple of days she will touch the top-10 as 11th. Thus, in addition, he would get fully into the fight for the Masters that will be played in Guadalajara (Mexico) from November 10 to 17. She is tenth in the race and would be eighth ahead, precisely, of Jabeur, the Tunisian who At the age of 27, she is going through the best moment of her career, which has taken her to eighth place in the rankings, the highest reached by an Arab tennis player, male or female, in all of history.
“I have an incredible feeling, last year it was the 90th in the world and now I’m here. I think it’s because I’ve worked a lot and I’ve gotten over my anxiety and depression when I was a teenager ”, explained Badosa, who had a nice touch with the Spanish fans: “I want to thank the people of Spain who have stayed up to watch the game. I feel very close to them ”.
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