Paula Badosa has not just left ‘hell’ which he entered midway through last season. following six months injured and following her encouraging results at the Australian Open, where she reached the third round, The Catalan tennis player has been injured once more and has had to withdraw from the WTA250 that is being held in Hua Hi (Thailand).
Badosa already had to make a great effort to get through the first round once morest the 298th in the world, the Thai Laniana Tararudee, and In the second instance she had been paired with another player who is below 100, the young Russian Diana Schaider, but she had just eliminated the great favorite, the Polish Magda Linette.
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The tennis player from the East started her match in the same way as she had done in her debut and won the first set 6-2. Paula Badosa was once more very bad with her service (53% first) and with several double faults to her credit, which hindered her quite a bit.
However, just as happened in front of Tararudee, The Catalan recovered in the second round, broke his rival’s serve in game four and went 4-1 up, indicating that the same story might repeat itself. However, From the next game onwards he began to have discomfort and, following losing his serve, he decided to retire despite still winning this second set 4-3.
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Although Badosa has not commented, it was the tournament organization that confirmed through Instagram that Badosa’s discomfort is in the lower back and wished him a speedy recovery. This is the area that left him without competing for half a year following he suffered a stress fracture in the L4 vertebra last season. Waiting for that Badosa herself confirms what injury she suffers or if, seeing the precedents and what is now coming, she has made the decision as a precaution, the reality is that she has had problems once more in her sixth game this seasonwhich is not good news for her.
The Spanish tennis player had planned to participate in the Middle East tour that begins next week in Abu Dhabi and has as its highlights the Premier 1000 in Doha and Dubai, which arrive next. It may be that, for this reason, she has preferred to retire in Thailand and that the problems suffered before Diana Schaider will not get worse. Or it might be a new injury that would slow down the progression she had undertaken.
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At the moment, Badosa’s season ends with three wins – once morest Townsend, Pavlyuchenkova and the aforementioned once morest Tararudee – and as many defeats. And a situation in the ranking that, despite recovering positions in Australia, is still close to 100 in the world.