At noon, Paula Badosa accesses the room with a firm and rebellious step: at each blow proposed by his back, he reacts raising. You will not be able to go up with me, it transmits the Spanish, and now back in Paris, prior passing through Strasbourg. The body has responded in the trial prior to Roland Garros, although realism and erosion are imposed “tired”, he answers this newspaper. “Animically, it costs me a little, especially because I work hard to get to the level where I left it [en enero, con las semifinales de Australia]. And it’s hard, because you do a very long process. Then it was very good, but suddenly, you have to stop again, ”he says.
The course began as a shot, wearing a stuck and decision on the antipodes, but then the scourge reappeared and with it the discards: goodbye in full competition to Miami, then Charleston, then Stuttgart and did not arrive at Ni. That is, sticks and more sticks for her, who still is firm and a plant face to the chronic injury that has been dragging for a couple of years in the lumbar zone, when the L4 creaked in the Italic forum. “And it’s not just stopping, but now you have to come back. I know that I have complicated weeks, games that at another time would not lose and that now I will lose them. And it is hard for me to bring all that frustration, because I am very competitive,” he says.
Difficult case of yours, but the mind is stronger today. She likes this too, adrenaline for her. “It is complicated to wake up a more tired day than normal and when you have already gone through this process, a mountain, but it is what I always say: it compensates me a lot to compete, return, the long term and thinking, well, well, it goes, Paula, endures now that good things will come,” continues that of Begur, which despite the absences continues between the grenado of the circuit, tenth of the world, tenth of the world, tenth of the world, Garros, because Monday will be in front of anything more and nothing less than Naomi Osaka; Out of earth habitat, but always dangerous.
The Japanese was not far away from Tumbar to Iga Swiatek, the tetra -friendly, and you never know. In any case, Badosa does not look as much in front of the mirror. “I thought it is one more game. Obviously, she is a great player; she has won four Grand Slams returned two years ago of her motherhood and now [49ª] It is close to being standard, but it is not a … [se lo piensa]. I worry about myself, how my back is. And, if my back responds, I am not very worried about the rival, ”he grants to journalists, always being interested from the chair for the speech and where his player breathes: positivity.
Just a game
“I think they are putting me to the test from there, because patience …” he jokes, while he says he is not rediscovering because, in reality, there are many Baddas concentrated in one. “Compared to the last time I came back, the same is not seen from the outside, but inside I am calmer with myself and that is what I like most.
The previous one also ended in full form and deserved the prize for the best return, but the caution is imposed again. Step by step, bad counselors hurry. “I know I will be at the highest level, but I don’t know when,” he says. “Now I must be realistic. If I were illusion and I would like [a finales de junio]… But now it’s not like that. I only played a complete game in the last two and a half months, so the important thing is to play here as many games as possible. For me, every minute on the track is now very valuable. I have no expectations, ”says Badosa.
