Paula Badosa will not be competing at this 12 months’s Paris Olympics after deciding to make use of her protected rating to enter Wimbledon and the US Open.
Badosa, a former world No. 2, is presently ranked at No. 118 on the planet nevertheless it needs to be famous that she missed an excellent portion of the 2023 season as a consequence of a again harm and that she was ranked contained in the top-35 when she performed her final event of the 2023 season at Wimbledon.
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Since Badosa was out of motion for an prolonged time, she certified for the protected rating rule. And for the reason that begin of the season, Badosa has used her protected rating to enter a number of the greatest tournaments such because the Australian Open and French Open.
However with two Grand Slams remaining and the Paris Olympics additionally coming, Badosa might use her protected rating for less than two of these three main occasions – and he or she determined to go together with the Grand Slams.
Paula Badosa WILL NOT play the Olympic Video games as she determined to make use of her protected rating at Wimbledon and the US Open (might solely use in two of those three massive occasions).
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Will the Tokyo Olympics be Badosa’s first and lone Olympic look?
In the summertime of 2021, Badosa made her Olympic debut in Tokyo, the place she made the quarterfinal earlier than retiring injured versus Marketa Vondrousova.
Now that Badosa is out of the Paris Olympics, her subsequent probability at making an Olympic look can solely are available in 2028. Nevertheless, that could be a really lengthy shot contemplating that 26-year-old Badosa lately introduced that her again harm was a power concern and that simply taking part in three to extra 4 years could be nice.
“In Indian Wells, the medical doctors informed me it could be very sophisticated to proceed my profession,” Badosa informed WTA Insider in the beginning of the clay season.
“They stated that is the one possibility we may give you and perhaps you’ll have to preserve doing that if you wish to play for a couple of extra years.
“I stated, ‘A number of extra years? I am nonetheless 26.’ For me, that was very powerful.”
