Badosa falls for Ostapenko and bids farewell to Rome tournament

Ostapenko finished great breakthrough de Badosa on the clay of Rome, they also matched each other one-on-one and this is now a draw in twos.

The Catalan bid farewell to Rome with an extraordinary performance, unable to stop the released Ostapenko, who scored more than forty victories and would face the winner of the duel between Poles. Iga Swiatek and sweater Elena Rybakina.

Ostapenko did not take a break from Badosa on his return from Miami to the quarterfinals of a WTA tournament, but he had to bring out his best version to finish off the Spaniards.

The start was overwhelming for the Latvian driver. He won the set with a score of 6-2 in 33 minutes, which Badosa couldn’t do much. The match started with a ‘time out’ exchange, but with a draw, the Latvian stepped up and dominated the Spaniards with angled balls and sought the opposite foot.

The Spaniard enjoyed three time-out balls in game six, but Ostapenko recovered and quenched an uncomfortable but smug Badosa response. He knew how to pull himself together.

And that’s how Badosa was key in Rome, where he left very high levels. as against jabir, against costuk and against chokovawhen old number 2 on the track reverses a complicated situation with equal parts determination and heart.

It was not an easy task to keep up with the level set by the Latvian Roland Garros champion in 2017, but Catalan took the lead in the second match. He knew him well from his other three matches and knew how to capitalize on that experience.

He managed to break his opponent in the fourth game and continued his service save until the last minute. three crushing balls to get 4-1. Ostapenko did not make the job easier and equalized the match by breaking the serve again from Badosa, who was undeterred by Latvia’s reaction and dominated again in the last leg of the set.

The third set was all or nothing, as in the first set, where Ostapenko took his first hit with an early ‘time out’. Badosa had two balls to take back the serve, but the Latvian was particularly successful this Wednesday afternoon, but was only able to delay a Badosa time-out, who had barely celebrated a draw on the scoreboard.. i was at the partyFor a moment he felt he had a real chance to be in the semi-finals.

However, Ostapenko put an end to the resurrection of Badosa. She instantly calmed him down with another “break”.‘ and remained stubborn to the end. He set the balls, got all the rights to Badosa and dominated from the serve. The Spaniards could do nothing to reverse the score.

Ostapenko finished Badosa in Rome, but the Spaniard has already started the machine and will come to Roland Garros with shots, a tournament where once he crosses the Italian capital he won’t need to play the first round and will also mean a promotion. related to seven positions in the ranking.