Paula Badosa25 years old and world no. historic title of the WTA 1000 in Indian Wells in 2021, beating one of its references in the final, the Belarusian Victoria Azarenka.
The Girona will have a complicated path towards a repetition of that success, each round will be a trap. From March 8 to 19 he will move in a box in which he will start against Granada Nuria Parrizas or the Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto.
Already in the third round, she would meet the Wimbledon champion and Australian Open finalist, the Kazakh Elena Rybakina.
Eighth against the Russian Daria Kasatkina, quarters against the Tunisian Ons Jabeur and hypothetical semifinals against the current queen of the tournament and world number 1, the Polish Iga Swiatek.
On the other part of the table the Belarusian closes Aryna Sabalenkathe queen of the Australian Open, who would fight rivals such as the Czech Barbora Krejcikova, the American Coco Gauff, the Greek Maria Sakkari or the American Jessica Pegula to assert their second-seeded status.
The hypothetical round of 16
TOP OF THE FRAME
Iga Swiatek (Pol/1)-Beatriz Haddad-Maia (Bra/13)
Liudmilla Samsonova (Russ/12)-Caroline Garcia (Fra/5)
Ons Jabeur (Tun/4)-Victoria Azarenka (Blr/14)
Elena Rybakina (Kaz/10)-Daria Kasatkina (Rus/8)
LOWER PART OF THE FRAME
Maria Sakkari (Gre/7)-Veronika Kudermetova (Rus/11)
Petra Kvitova (Che/15)-Jessica Pegula (USA/3)
Coco Gauff (USA/6)-Belinda Bencic (Sui/9)
Barbora Krejcikova (Che/16)-Aryna Sabalenka (Blr/2)