Paula Badosa – Coco Gauff, live

Spanish tennis player Paula Badosa The American team is measured this Saturday Corey ‘Coco’ Gauff in search of a place in the final Chinese Open. You can watch the fight live, openly and free of charge on Teledeporte and the RTVE Play streaming platform.

The native of New York (USA) finds her best version at a tournament held in the capital Beijing, where she reached the penultimate round without dropping a single set. “I feel good, I’m confident and I hope I can follow in the footsteps of a champion like Garbine Muguruza“, said the Spanish tennis player after his victory over the Chinese. Zhang Shuai scores 6-1 and 7-6(4), showing good form. Muguruza was the last Spanish woman to win the tournament in Beijing in 2015.

“I knew I came from playing very well at a very high level and at some point I was going to show it. She tried to cut off points with her serve and volley, but I tolerated her good moments, and in the end she fell to my side in the tiebreak,” he explained about the stunning start to the first set and the problems that had to be faced. The tennis player posed for an Asian woman in second and final round.

As for his next semi-final opponent, Badosa singled out American Coco Gauff had a good yearnoting that they both know each other very well. “Coco is a very good player who has had a very good year, so she’s where she belongs in the rankings,” he said of the American, who finished fourth in the tournament.

Both met each other five times, and a favorable balance for the Spaniards: three victories against two.. However, the last confrontation took place in May this year in Rome, and he chose the team of Gauff, who fought back against Badosa with scores of 5-7, 6-4 and 6-1. The Spaniard had back problems that prevented her from performing at her desired level in the first half of the season. But after the summer everything changed for her and she reached the semi-finals Cincinnati, WTA 1000 category exactly the same as the one played in Beijing, and the quarterfinals US Openimproving your level in every tournament and leaving physical problems behind. Before I came after the victory Mubadala DC Open in Washington – WTA 500 tournament. Badosa is currently number 19 in the world according to the WTA rankings and could move into the top ten if he wins the China Open.