The most popular couple in tennis today, Paula Badosa and Stefanos Tsitsipas, debuted this Friday in mixed doubles with a defeat at the US Open against Mexicans Giuliana Olmos and Santiago Gonzalez. Doubles specialists, the Mexicans won the match 7-6(3) and 6-4 in one hour and 13 minutes.
This was the first time that Badosa and Tsitsipas played together in an official match as a mixed doubles pair having signed up for and subsequently withdrawn from Wimbledon in 2023 and Roland Garros in 2024.
However, last week they won and They took home $250,000 at the US Open Mixed Madnessa mixed doubles exhibition as part of the pre-U.S. Open activities.
During the first round match this Friday, the Spaniard and the Greek They shared jokes and smiles enjoying the experience of being together on a tennis court, something that both of them were especially excited about.
Another of the images of the match was in the first set when Tsitsipas, after failing to return the ball in the tie break (6-6 and 6-3 for the Mexicans), threw his racket to the ground. That moment of rage caught Badosa off guard and with her back turned.who got quite a scare.
Numerous Mexican fans came out to support Olmos and Gonzalez while Some spectators supported their rivals with shouts of ‘Tsitsidosa’, the colloquial name for the couple formed by Badosa and Tsitsipas.
Anecdotes aside, this doubles match meant an extra dose of tennis this Friday for the Catalan, who started this match alongside Tsitsipas A little more than three hours later after finishing her third round singles match against Romanian Elena-Gabriela Ruse.
Badosa, who is in great form, will now be able to focus exclusively on in the women’s singles drawwhere she will face China’s Yafan Wang in the round of 16.
