On the third goes la vencida…
Paula Badosa wrote the Spanish phrase on the Australian Open camera lens to express her relief at winning her first Grand Slam quarter-final in three attempts, achieving her best major result ever time and a first victory in the Top 10 at this level, shocking world number 3 Coco. Gauff, 7-5, 6-4.
“I’m a little emotional,” she told Alicia Molik on the court after the match. “For me, it’s a dream come true. »
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-A former world number 2, Badosa had lost her two previous major quarter-finals in heartbreaking fashion, most recently last summer to Emma Navarro at the US Open in a nervy display. The Spaniard turned the tables on Gauff, who had won her first nine matches of the season, and held off a late surge to reach the semi-finals in an hour and 43 minutes at the Rod Laver Arena.
“In the last Slam, the quarter-finals were very difficult, so today I arrived with the desire to play my best match,” said Badosa, who awaits the winner of the second quarter-final between number a world Aryna Sabalenka and the No. 27 seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. . “I think I did.” »
