Paula Badosa is aware of easy methods to make fast work of a tennis speedster.
Badosa raced by eight straight video games dismissing Coco Gauff 6-3, 6-0 on the Mutua Madrid Open on Saturday.
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The Twenty sixth-seeded Spaniard scored her third straight-sets win in 4 conferences vs. world No. 4 Gauff.
“She’s an excellent, she performs wonderful when she’s defending,” Badosa stated of Gauff. “She’s very quick. She has loopy backhand, superb serve, particularly first serves.
“I simply attempt to return her each ball to make her play yet one more. Typically when she feels she does not have free factors on the serve, she begins to serve a bit bit worse.”
Former world No. 2 Badosa cites two easy the reason why she’s maintained mastery of the Roland Garros runner-up:
1. Badosa assaults {the teenager}’s weaker forehand wing with selection, not simply pounding away with tempo, the Spaniard generally makes Gauff generate her personal off the forehand.
2. Badosa believes placing as many returns again as potential, somewhat than attempting to tear return winners, places cumulative stress on the American.
“After all going extra to her forehand, most as a result of her backhand is superb, and when you will have just like the spot there, you simply go there, however I simply tried to go to her forehand,” Badosa stated. “Yeah, generally simply give it to her and make her like do extra what she will.
“And, yeah, that is a bit bit the tactic that I can say now. I hope she does not learn it.”
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