Badosa seals Spain's win by beating Wimbledon champ Rybakina in Glasgow

Paula Badosa made a return to the courts and she proved too much to handle for Elena Rybakina beating her in three sets.

Earlier today Parrizas Diaz defeated Putintseva to give Spain the 1-0 lead and now Badosa sealed their win with a 6-2 3-6 6-4 win over Rybakina. Badosa entered this match with a 3-1 lead over Rybakina in their matches so far indicating a matchup problem for Rybakina.

It certainly was one early in the match as she failed to establish herself as the more dominant player posting an abysmal stat line. She hit her serve only 30 % of the time and that was a major problem. She tried to overcompensate by being very aggressive but had only six winners and 11 unforced errors.

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The second set was much better by Rybakina as she not only found her serve, but posted a higher first serve percentage than Badosa. She also had far more winners and that was more than enough to take it 6-3. The final set was an interesting one as Rybakina had a break up early in the set.

She gave it right back with Badosa eventually outplaying Rybakina once more down the line to take it. The Wimbledon champ had too many cheap errors towards the end of the match and it proved too much to overcome.

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