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Paula Badosa: Meet the Spanish star beginning to make good on ‘new Sharapova’ comparisons after profitable Indian Wells

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Paula Badosa picked up the most important prize of her profession by triumphing towards Victoria Azarenka at Indian Wells on Sunday, within the newest signal that the Spaniard is lastly residing as much as comparisons with Russian icon Maria Sharapova.

Badosa battled previous two-time champion Azarenka in a three-set thriller within the Californian desert, prevailing 7-6, 2-6, 7-6 on the remaining WTA 1000 occasion of the season.   

For the 23-year-old Spaniard, it was a second WTA crown of the 12 months – and of her senior profession – following a breakthrough win in Belgrade again in Could.

An incredible match ?#BNPPO21 pic.twitter.com/WbRdsUM4AP

— wta (@WTA) October 17, 2021

Success in Indian Wells means the big-hitting Badosa rises to a career-high world quantity 13 spot within the up to date rankings, having began the 12 months at quantity 70. 

“The very first thing that I’ve realized this week is that nothing is inconceivable. In case you struggle, if you happen to work, in any case these years, you possibly can obtain something,” mentioned Badosa after selecting up a cool $ 1.2 million in prize cash.

“That is the primary message that I see that would occur. And to dream. Generally you may have powerful moments.

“In my case, I’ve been by powerful moments. I by no means stopped dreaming. That’s what saved me working arduous and believing till the final second.

“I am very comfortable what’s taking place. I’m slightly bit nonetheless in shock what occurred in the present day as a result of profitable a match like this, it’s at all times been a dream.”

For Badosa, reaching the verge of the ladies’s high 10 has been rather more of a battle than some would have anticipated.

Born in New York to folks who labored within the style business, Badosa to Spain as a teenager and grew up in Barcelona, additionally spending time coaching in Valencia after taking over tennis.

Tipped for giant issues, the hype surrounding Badosa solely grew when she was topped French Open junior champion in 2015, beating Russia’s Anna Kalinskaya within the remaining.

Badosa beat Kalinskaya to win the junior French Open title in 2015. © Reuters

After that success, Badosa brazenly acknowledged that Russian five-time Grand Slam queen Sharapova was amongst her idols, saying she “recognized slightly along with her additionally due to her method of enjoying.

“Mentally she is excellent, she is a born fighter… I feel she is a spectacular participant.”

The comparisons with Sharapova had been neither lengthy nor troublesome in coming: each gamers boast an aggressive, heavy-hitting on-court smile, each are photogenic figures who seize the attention off the court docket in addition to on it. 

Badosa herself has commented on the comparisons, replying to a fan earlier this 12 months who mentioned it was “loopy” how related she seemed to Sharapova on court docket.

“Haha they are saying it so much. I want I could possibly be as wonderful as her. However thanks anyway, it’s at all times a very good comparability,” mentioned Badosa modestly.

Outdoors of tennis, Badosa’s love life and relationship with Cuban mannequin Juan Betancourt has likewise made the form of headlines that pursued Sharapova and her issues of the guts down the years. 

However by the age of 23, Sharapova had already scooped three of her 5 Grand Slam titles; as compared, Badosa’s path has been far much less clean.

The Spaniard has admitted that she struggled with the load of expectation, contending with melancholy and psychological well being battles.

“Everybody thinks that I might be a high 10 participant at 18 years,” she has mentioned beforehand.

“However I used to be not ready or conscious both. Some unreal expectations got here up after which I misplaced. I needed to be on the sidelines to enhance and be comfortable.

“I used to be depressed and nervous. Then I seemed for [former coach] Xavier Budo, who modified my life.”

Badosa’s finest efficiency at a Grand Slam up to now was her run to the quarter-finals of the French Open this 12 months, whereas she additionally reached the identical stage on the Tokyo Olympics earlier than retiring towards Marketa Vondrousova as a result of stifling warmth.

That occasion was symptomatic of the struggles Badosa has usually confronted, within the context of which her tears after seeing off Azarenka on Sunday appeared like a cathartic launch.  

Her efficiency, in the meantime, was but extra testomony to Badosa’s rising confidence and the rising perception she will obtain the large issues many felt she was destined for.

2-Zero in finals ?

?? @paulabadosa outlasts Azarenka 7-6(5), 2-6, 7-6(2) for the @BNPPARIBASOPEN title! pic.twitter.com/upn6HMY0kZ

— wta (@WTA) October 17, 2021

It has not been a straightforward path, however we received the reward with arduous work, ardour and religion. Don’t let anybody inform you can’t obtain one thing. If that occurs, show them improper. At present I fulfilled considered one of my goals, enjoying the finals in one of many greatest occasions on the earth… pic.twitter.com/aEPJBCcrLA

— Paula Badosa (@paulabadosa) October 18, 2021

As for what comes subsequent, Badosa remains to be within the working for a spot on the season-ending WTA Finals in Guadalajara, boosted by the mammoth 1,000 factors she earned at Indian Wells, which strikes her into the quantity eight place with lower than a month earlier than the occasion will get underway.

Ought to she make it to Mexico, Badosa would possibly simply begin to really feel much more at dwelling among the many ladies’s elite – a spot the place many tipped her to finally discover herself, identical to Sharapova earlier than her. 

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