Paula Badosa’s great start to the season was suddenly stopped this Wednesday at the Hua Hin tournament in Thailand, where the Spanish tennis player had to withdraw due to injury during her round of 16 match once morest Russian Daria Shnaider following falling in the first set 6-2 and when he led 3-4 in the second set, where he led 1-4.
A Badosa who, despite giving up the first set following losing her last two turns on serve, managed to get back into the match by breaking Shnaider’s serve in the fourth game of the second set to go 1-4 in favor.
However, in the seventh game, Badosa began to show discomfort in his back that prevented him from serving normally and caused him to lose his serve so that the score remained at 3-4. Before, Badosa requested the presence of the physio to point out that his back hurt, which has already left him without competing for much of 2023.
Despite taking a pill to try to calm the pain, at 3-4, Badosa went to the bench to cover his face with a towel as a result of helplessness due to this new injury before informing Shnaider of his retirement, who wished him a speedy recovery and regretted having to win like this once morest an injured player.
We will have to wait to know the evolution of Badosa’s injury, since the Spaniard suffered a fracture in a vertebra during the Masters 1,000 in Rome last May that prevented her from competing at Roland Garros. Despite her return at Wimbledon, where she once more suffered from these discomforts in her match once morest Marta Kostyuk, Badosa resigned from competing for the rest of the season to recover from this injury that might now undermine the tennis player once more. Spanish.