{"id":743422,"date":"2026-06-17T20:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743422\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T20:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:11:17","slug":"emotional-badosa-upsets-gauff-i-kept-believing-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743422\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotional Badosa Upsets Gauff: I Kept Believing \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, June 17, 2026<br \/>Photo credit: Berlin Tennis Open Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Berlin once started a painful spiral for Paul Badosa.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Badosa reconnected with her identity surprising fifth-seeded Coco Gauff, 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 at the Berlin Tennis Open.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisexpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/610X150-Slide_PRO-PLAYER_5-21-26.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65402\"  data-\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An emotional Badosa ended the upset in tears of joy.<\/p>\n<p>Recalling the pain of a back issue that\u2019s plagued her over the past year, as well as her split from ex-boyfriend Stefanos Tsitsipas, Badosa said regaining this level of play was particularly moving for her after all she\u2019s experienced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very excited. It has been very hard,\u201d Badosa said. \u201cA year ago I was injured here. Since then I haven\u2019t been able to play regularly. I\u2019ve been through a lot, both professionally and personally. Playing at this level again means a lot to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know it\u2019s only a couple of games, but for me the most important thing is the level I showed today against Coco. It started incredibly well and I kept believing.\u00a0I think today I finally saw myself back on the court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All of the feels! \ud83e\udd79<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/paulabadosa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@paulabadosa<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/BTO26?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#BTO26<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IwbedqzGQi\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/IwbedqzGQi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 wta (@WTA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WTA\/status\/2067269631279006049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 17, 2026<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Former Indian Wells champion Badosa converted four of five break points in a 96-minute victory.<\/p>\n<p>It was Badosa\u2019s fifth win over Gauff in eight career meetings, propelling her into the quarterfinals against either eighth-seeded Linda Noskova or Diane Parry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a very difficult match, I respect Coco a lot, who is one of my favorite players on the circuit,\u201d Badosa said.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s always a battle against her that pushes you to the limit. Winning games like this helps a lot and especially with the level shown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhichever opponent is in the quarterfinals it will be a very tough match as both players are very dangerous\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, June 17, 2026Photo credit: Berlin Tennis Open Facebook Berlin once started a painful&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-743422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}