{"id":76108,"date":"2021-05-05T16:59:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T15:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/?p=65667"},"modified":"2021-05-05T16:59:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T15:59:28","slug":"badosa-i-cant-stop-believing-im-going-to-give-it-my-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/badosa-i-cant-stop-believing-im-going-to-give-it-my-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Badosa: &#8220;I can\u2019t stop believing, I\u2019m going to give it my all&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She arrived at the Mutua Madrid Open as a wildcard and is now the name on everyone\u2019s lips this week in the Caja M\u00e1gica. All eyes are on a Paula Badosa who, after the emotion of reaching the women\u2019s semi-finals, spoke to the media in the press-conference room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy because it\u2019s something that I wasn\u2019t expecting at the start of the week, but I\u2019m playing well and dealing with the pressure\u201d, she admitted, wearing the smile of someone who has just become the first Spanish player to reach the semi-finals of the Madrid WTA 1000.<\/p>\n<p>After beating eighth seed Belinda Bencic, the world No. 62 said she felt \u201cvery nervous because she had already played against her three weeks ago, but I handled it well and the fans are really helping me\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about her celebration of kissing the clay in the Arantxa S\u00e1nchez Stadium after the match, one of many memorable images after her win, Badosa said that it was the result of \u201cthe excitement of playing at home, in Madrid and because I love the way the court is\u201d, adding that in this instance \u201cI hadn\u2019t planned anything, sometimes I\u2019m very expressive and spontaneous\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Un d\u00eda inolvidable ?<\/p>\n<p>As\u00ed fue el behind the scenes de la victoria de <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paulabadosa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@paulabadosa<\/a> en cuartos de final del <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MMOPEN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MMOPEN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/APKOYamDyL\">pic.twitter.com\/APKOYamDyL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #MMOPEN (@MutuaMadridOpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MutuaMadridOpen\/status\/1389910966335324160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 5, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really in the best moment of my career\u201d, said the Girona native before looking back at the quarantine she had to undergo in Australia. \u201cIf they told me two months ago that I would be in the semi-finals, here in Madrid, maybe I wouldn\u2019t have believed it with everything we\u2019ve been through\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Badosa says that one of the keys to her current form was changing coaches to ex-player Javier Mart\u00ed. \u201cHe told me that there are no secrets; work hard, accept everything\u2026 and I am reaping the rewards this week in Madrid\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if she believes she can win the #MMO, the Catalonian player admitted that she \u201ccannot stop believing and I\u2019m going to give my all\u201d as well as recognising that \u201cevery time I am asked which tournament I would like to win or to get a good result at, I always said Madrid. So I&#8217;m super happy that this is coming true\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She arrived at the Mutua Madrid Open as a wildcard and is now the name on everyone\u2019s lips this week in the Caja M\u00e1gica. All eyes are on a Paula Badosa who, after the emotion of reaching the women\u2019s semi-finals, spoke to the media in the press-conference room. \u201cI\u2019m very happy because it\u2019s something that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":76109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,179,142],"tags":[201,11,17,259],"class_list":["post-76108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mutua-news","category-tennis","category-womens-tennis","tag-mmo-en","tag-mmopen","tag-mutua-madrid-open-en","tag-paula-badose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}