Badosa earns a golden opportunity through hard work

The Spanish player performed at an excellent level against Danilovic and advances to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open for the first time in her career.

Diego Jiménez Rubio | 19 Jan 2025 | 05.28
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Paula Badosa reaches quarterfinals of the Australian Open 2025. Photo: gettyimages
Paula Badosa reaches quarterfinals of the Australian Open 2025. Photo: gettyimages

She is a special player, and as soon as injuries have given her a break, her talent has emerged again in the form of results. Paula Badosa is in the quarterfinals of the 2025 Australian Open after a display of power and maturity against Olga Danilovic. She won 6-1 7-6 (2), knowing how to suffer and giving herself the opportunity to dream of something important in Melbourne.

The time has come to translate into results what has been sensed in her since she was a child. Paula Badosa has gone through all kinds of situations during her career, which have made her mature and accumulate a mental baggage and experience key to managing matches like the one she won in this 2025 Australian Open against the young Olga Danilovic. The Spanish player has a golden opportunity ahead to explore her limits in a Grand Slam.

There are ways to step onto a court to play a key match, and what Badosa showed in the first set makes it clear that the New York-born player has reached a tennis level that corresponds to knocking on the door of the Grand Slam semifinals with increasing confidence. That psychological barrier is important for a Paula who overwhelmed Danilovic and triggered a recurrence of unforced errors in the young Serbian, shaken by the aftermath of the success of defeating Pegula and the different conditions between playing during the day and at night.

- Badosa will play a Grand Slam quarterfinal for the third time in her career

Under the Melbourne sun, Paula's total tennis acquires a superior status, finding that perfect balance between aggressiveness and consistency that makes the Spanish player so unreachable and unpredictable when she is inspired. But nothing is given at this stage. In the second set, Danilovic reacted, being able to play with some margin, physically toughening the match and forcing the Spanish player to roll up her sleeves. She did it masterfully, raising her level at a critical moment and resolving the tangle in a tiebreak that was not for the faint-hearted.

Paula Badosa clears the way to the quarterfinals of the 2025 Australian Open, a round she has already reached twice in Grand Slam events, facing a barrier, so far impassable, that she will try to surpass in Melbourne. To do so, she will have to defeat Cori Gauff, which poses a great challenge but doesn't seem unrealistic given the performance the Spanish player has been showing throughout the tournament. There are reasons to dream.

This news is an automatic translation. You can read the original news, Badosa se gana a pulso una oportunidad de oro