“The Tadpole Knows Everything” | Relief

London.- No matter how much she wins, Paula Badosa is not even close to happy. He looks up to the stands on Court 17, where he plays, to talk to his coach. She was left alone on the court after winning the first set because her opponent Fruhvirtova had just asked for a break to get medical attention.

“He’s young, but he knows all the tactics, it’s incredible”– the Spanish player says first in English as they court the 17-year-old. “The tadpole knows everything, huh?” he says later in Catalan to his coach. “Always like that, they learn it quickly in these countries, huh?” he says in Spanish, in case there was any doubt.

Badosa is angry and makes no move to hide it. He walks from one side of the court to the other, getting closer to where his coach is. Shake your head and everything is going very well.won the first set 6-4 and his play was up to the task.

While she said she wasn’t angry, the truth is she saw some strategies in her opponent that upset her. “She used everything she could. She played well. He goes to the bathroom, which took a little longer than expected, then asks for a physical therapist. He already did it the other day. There are players who play with it, and in my case I have never played with such things, and I have always paid a lot of attention to whether I win or lose, and this is because of tennis,” he concluded.

In the second set, Fruhvirtova offers even less resistance than in the first. He is simply worse than Badosa, who these days has declared himself in better shape than in the spring, and this has forced him to raise the general level of his tennis.

The obvious anger with which he moves around the court contrasts with the feelings he evoked during the game. Seven aces, 22 winners, fairly stable control of the court.. The breaks that Fruhvirtova forced her to take didn’t mean anything serious either. In two matches, there were essentially two players with physical problems, as in the first round she met Muchova, who has been suffering from wrist problems for several months.

After the meeting, Badosa explained at a press conference that his anger was not that important and that it could even be good for him. “Sometimes I need it too, I have such a character, I am passionate “And sometimes when my game is not what I would like, or my level of tennis is not what I would like, maybe I need to get another point of anger to fight these nerves, to fight other things. In the end, it also helps me play with anger. I wasn’t angry with her, but these are just things that help me play better,” the Spaniard explained.

In the third round, she faces a more serious test: she will face Russia’s Kasatkina, who won her second-round match without giving up a single set. The 14th place could spell trouble for Badosa, who finds reasons to be angry even on the brightest of days.