Melbourne (Australia), January 21 (EFE).- The Spanish Paula Badosa, eleventh favorite, revealed in the press conference after her victory in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open against the American Coco Gauff, third in the world, that His “dream is to win a Grand Slam.”
“I have never hidden myself but my dream has always been to win a Grand Slam,” the Catalan said flatly after reaching the semi-finals in a major competition for the first time in her career.
“I'm not going to feel free until the tournament is over. That is my personality and my character, because I really want to win. In the final rounds my level rises, I want to be one hundred percent,” added Badosa, who took revenge for that fateful defeat against her rival on Tuesday, the American Coco Gauff, in the recent tournament in Beijing (China).
“I had a lot in my mind about the last match I played with her, in which she set and broke up. Today was also the same. That day it was very difficult for me to handle it because I didn't go for the game, I speculated too much. Today, with 5-4, I thought I had another opportunity to show that you have to go for it,” recalled Badosa, who will face the Belarusian and friend Aryna Sabalenka in the semifinals, the first player in the world and current champion. Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, twenty-seventh.
“Aryna is showing why she is number one, she is very consistent, aggressive and very intense. If it's against Aryna, I would really want to play that match. “Anastasia has a lot of talent and great shots, it would be another great battle,” commented the Girona native about her two possible rivals.
-Badosa also explained the process that led her to improve considerably mentally since the tough defeat she suffered in the last United States Open, last September, against the American Emma Navarro in the quarterfinals.
“I think almost all of us learn from clubs and I already took a very big club in the US Open. “I remember sitting down and saying, I want to be there again to have the opportunity to do better and learn from that,” he explained.
“I worked on it a lot with my psychologist, honestly, in the preseason we were also working on it a lot in person. Putting ourselves in the situation a lot, visualizing a lot. Every day I visualize what I want, every day I meditate, I work on all of that to be in the present. It is a job that is going very well and today has also served me a lot,” added a Badosa who will compete in the semifinals this Thursday.EFE
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