Former world No. 2 Badosa came from behind at the WTA 500 tournament to defeat Gauff for the second meeting in a row.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You could see what victory meant to\u00a0Paula Badosa<\/strong>, overcome with sheer emotion after defeating\u00a0Coco Gauff<\/strong>\u00a0at the 2026 Berlin\u00a0Tennis\u00a0Open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In another injury-blightened season, the former world No. 2 came from behind at the WTA 500 tournament to defeat Gauff 1-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the second round on Wednesday (17 June).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Badosa, who is now ranked No. 142, was playing just her eighth singles match on tour since April, returning to the tournament where a back injury had hampered her season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the Spaniard has now sealed consecutive victories against the No. 5 seed, coming from behind for a monumental victory on the grass-court swing leading to Wimbledon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou can see I\u2019m very emotional,\u201d said Badosa in tears after the match. \u201cIt\u2019s been very tough. One year ago I got injured here\u2026 now seeing myself playing at this level here means a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Badosa awaits eighth seed\u00a0Linda Noskov\u00e1<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0Diane Parry<\/strong>\u00a0in the quarter-finals. But for Gauff, it is a third straight singles loss on the grass dating back to last year\u2019s Berlin Open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elsewhere in Berlin\u00a0Alexandra Eala<\/strong>\u00a0continued her strong grass-court season with an opening-round triumph; the Filipina world No. 35 defeated Olympic silver medallist\u00a0Donna Veki\u0107<\/strong>\u00a07-5, 6-4 for a seventh win on the surface this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Veki\u0107, ranked two places higher and fresh off a\u00a0grass title at Queen\u2019s, fought through one hour, 50 minutes in the German capital, having played eight matches in the last 10 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Next up for wildcard Eala is a mouthwatering matchup with second seed\u00a0Elena Rybakina<\/strong>, with the 2026 Australian Open champion looking to build form on the grass before\u00a0Wimbledon begins on 29 June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was Veki\u0107 who struck first with an early break before suffering a double break at the hands of the Filipina, before working her way back in from 2-4 to win three straight games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eala was not keen to relinquish her control of the opening set as she broke for 6-5 and took the set in just over an hour. The 21-year-old showed excellent composure to save 86 per cent of break points over the course of the action at the Steffi Graf Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A break to open the second set was enough to give the wildcard a lasting advantage, and she even saved four break points in the final game to advance to the round of 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former world No. 2 Badosa came from behind at the WTA 500 tournament to defeat Gauff for the second meeting in a row. You could see what victory meant to\u00a0Paula Badosa, overcome with sheer emotion after defeating\u00a0Coco Gauff\u00a0at the 2026 Berlin\u00a0Tennis\u00a0Open. In another injury-blightened season, the former world No. 2 came from behind at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12903],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12903"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417649,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417644\/revisions\/417649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/6gnx6dd.cc\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Berlin Tennis Open 2026 \u2013 Alex Eala beats recently crowned Queen\u2019s champion Veki\u0107<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n