The Spanish Paula Badosa signed another great performance this Saturday by coming back in the WTA 1,000 in Rome against the Russian Diana Schnaider in the third round, whom she won 5-7, 6-4 and 6-4 in another improvement exercise constant of the tennis player born in New York.
Badosa does not stop fighting, fighting and believing, adding his third great performance at the Foro Italico in Rome where last year he showed very good achievements in his tennis. Constantly hit by injuries, she is being in the Italian capital where she is finding the best version of herself, despite the adversities on the scoreboard.
And, although in the first round against the Russian Mirra Andreeva she was an unstoppable cyclone, Badosa has had to come back two games in a row, a continuous improvement exercise that brought her a smile, another one, at the end of the match, totally liberated and satisfied with another great game. Although it is true that in this match his first set was good, he even enjoyed 7 break balls, he gave up serve at the decisive moment, when he was down 6-5, and had to go out to the second set with the obligation to gain.
No sooner said than done. Point by point, and despite losing a serve just when he had broken, he was beaten to take the duel. He united with the audience and felt superior. He celebrated the 6-4 that extended the match knowing that he had the situation under control.
They went up 4-1, wasted a match point and had to accelerate to avoid a tie-break, but ended up shouting with their fists raised celebrating their passage to the second round after an impeccable, blank final game. In the round of 16 she will face the third seed and champion of the last US Open, Coco Gauff, who suffered to beat the Romanian Jacqueline Cristian in three sets.
