The appearance of Naomi Osaka to the French Open turned out to be a brief because she lost her opening match against Paula Badosa n ° 10 on Monday.
Badosa dropped the first set before rebounding to win the last two and defeat Osaka 6-7 (1-7), 6-1, 6-4.
Roland Garros has never been nice to Osaka. The 27-year-old woman has never progressed beyond the third round and won only two game victories in her last four appearances in this 2021 tournament.
The victory sends Badosa to the second round where she will face the winner of the Ruse McCartney Kessler-Elena-Gabriela match.
Osaka was close to the top of her game in the first set. She had four aces and 17 winners to move before early. However, there were pre-running signs in this performance, in particular its 22 unl forced errors.
The lack of consistency with its service after the opening set was a big difference in the match. Badosa was 5 out of 8 on the conversions of breaking points in the match, four with the last two sets (2 out of 2 in the third).
Osaka came out of a solid race on Clay at the Italian Open as a development for Roland Garros. She qualified in the fourth round before falling to Peyton Stearns.
Badosa was a competition for his first test at the French Open. The Spanish star comes from her best performance in a tournament in Petit-Slam at Australian Open in January when she qualified in the semi-finals before losing against Aryna Sabalenka.
The Rust Badosa showed early against Osaka could be the product to have played that two games since March 23 when she beat Clara Tauson in the third round of the Miami Open.
A back injury Forced Badosa to withdraw from her fourth round match in Miami and kept it out of the action until the Strasbourg opened last week.
If Badosa is able to play at the level she has shown in the last two sets against Osaka, she could be a potential spoiler for the best heads of the tournament.
