The Spanish Paula Badosanumber fourteen in the world ranking, He retired with physical discomfort of the semifinals of the Ningbo tournament (China), after losing the first set 4-6 with the Russian Daria Kasatkina.
The game started two and a half hours later than scheduled. because of the rainwhich also twice forced the match to be interrupted once it had started.
Badosa, who made five double faults in the first set, She was surpassed by the Russian tennis player, number eleven in the WTA rankingwho was very confident in serving and reached 56% accuracy in second service points.
These Ningbo semifinals, the penultimate WTA 500 of the season, were the second that Badosa competes in the Asian tour after the one she played in the China Open at the beginning of October, in which she lost to the American Coco Gauff.
Before this meeting, Badosa and Kasatkina had met five timeswith three victories for the Russian (the third, in Adelaide, by default) and two (the last) for the Spanish.
