Aryna Sabalenka defeats Badosa in the 3rd round to play vs Navarro. HIGHLIGHTS, INTERVIEW – FRENCH OPEN RESULTS

Aryna Sabalenka prevails over Paula Badosa Gibert 7-5 6-1 in the 3^rd round in Paris on Saturday. Sabalenka is going to play against Emma Navarro in the 4^th round. The match lasted 1 hour and 17 minutes. Her most significant achievement in this event was reaching the semifinal in 2023. Here you can see her history at this event.

Sabalenka added to her prize money € 92,000 after winning this match. She has already won € 250,000 after this win. If she wins the next match, Sabalenka will add € 165,000 to her earnings to get in total € 415,000 in total.

Highlights Aryna Sabalenka vs. Paula Badosa Gibert French Open – Paris

Sabalenka’s Interview

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

At the end of the match, the Belarussian scored 67 points vs. Badosa’s 51.

Sabalenka

Sabalenka won this match even if she was battling in converting her break points since she converted only 39% (7/18) of the procured opportunities.

Badosa

On the other side, Badosa was pretty effective at converting 75% of the break points that she conquered points (3/4). Anyhow, that was not enough to win the match.

After this match, the head to head between Sabalenka and Badosa is 5-2 for Aryna.

Draw and next match H2H: Aryna Sabalenka vs. Emma Navarro – stats

Sabalenka will take on Navarro in the 4^th round.

This will be the 2^nd time that Aryna Sabalenka and Emma Navarro square off. The head to head is 1-0 for Navarro (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on clay.

The last time that they played, Navarro won 6-3 3-6 6-2 in the 4^th round in Indian Wells back in March 2024.

Live score progression and stats

Sabalenka didn’t want to give any chance to the opposition at the beginning of the set after breaking Paula Badosa Gibert in the 1^st game (1-0). Nevertheless, there was more work to do for Sabalenka to win the set since Badosa managed to break back in the 2^nd (1-1), in the 6^th (4-2) and in the 8^th (5-3) game. Sabalenka maintained her focus to break Badosa in the 7^th (3-4), in the 9^th (4-5) and in the 11^th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).

The Spaniard was outplayed in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 3-5 to 7-5.

Aryna converted 33% of her break points (4/12). She had 12 break points opportunities in the 1^st (0-0 15-40 and 30-40), the 3^rd (1-1 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A), the 7^th (2-4 30-40, 40-A and 40-A), the 8^th (3-5 0-40 and 15-40) and the 11^th game (5-5 30-40). On the other side, Paula was spot on in converting all her break points in the 2^nd

(0-1 30-40), the 6^th (3-2 30-40) and the 8^th game (4-3 15-40).

They contested 76 points. Aryna won 6 more points than Badosa (41-35). The Belarussian conceded 14 points on serve (17-14). Regarding the other side of the net, the Spaniard conceded 24 points on serve (21-24).

Sabalenka conquered a commanding position in the outset to break Paula Badosa Gibert in the 1^st game (1-0) before consolidating her break and lead 4-0. Aryna managed to boost her lead after breaking Paula in the 3^rd (3-0) and in the 7^th (6-1) game before conquering the set.

A defining moment of this set was when Sabalenka won 4 consecutive games in the 2^nd set so as to change the game count from 0-0 to 4-0.

The Belarussian converted 50% of her break points (3/6). She had 6 break points opportunities in the 1^st (0-0 30-40), the 3^rd (2-0 0-40) and the 7^th game (5-1 0-40, 15-40, 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Badosa wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 2^nd game (0-1 30-40).

They played 42 points. The Belarussian was the winner of the set after clinching 10 more points than Badosa (26-16). Aryna conceded 7 points on serve (13-7). on the other side of the court, Paula conceded 13 points on serve (9-13).

Tennis Scores at the French Open

• Elina AvanesyanAvanesyan – Qinwen ZhengZheng (3-6 6-3 7-6⁶)
• Mirra AndreevaAndreeva – Peyton StearnsStearns (6-2 6-1)
• Varvara GrachevaGracheva – Irina-Camelia BeguBegu (7-5 6-3)
• Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Bianca Vanessa AndreescuVanessa Andreescu (6-1 3-6 6-0)
• Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Paula Badosa GibertBadosa Gibert (7-5 6-1)
• Elina SvitolinaSvitolina – Ana BogdanBogdan (7-5 6-2)
• Elena RybakinaRybakina – Elise MertensMertens (6-4 6-2)
• Emma NavarroNavarro – Madison KeysKeys (7-6⁵ 7-6³)
• Anastasia PotapovaPotapova – Xinyu WangWang (7-5 6-7⁶ 6-4)
• Cori GauffGauff – Dayana YastremskaYastremska (6-2 6-4)
• Marketa VondrousovaVondrousova – Chloe PaquetPaquet (6-1 6-3)
• Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Marie BouzkovaBouzkova (6-4 6-2)
• Ons JabeurJabeur – Leylah Annie FernandezAnnie Fernandez (6-4 7-6⁵)
• Elisabetta CocciarettoCocciaretto – Liudmila SamsonovaSamsonova (7-6⁴ 6-2)
• Clara TausonTauson – Sofia KeninKenin (6-2 7-5)
• Olga DanilovicDanilovic – Donna VekicVekic (0-6 7-5 7-6⁸)

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