Khromacheva hinted that this is not the first time that this has happened to her this year, with the team of Badosa and Victoria Azarenka also beating herself and Ekaterina Alexandrova before withdrawing in Berlin.
Badosa progressed to the quarter-finals of the China Open singles tournament earlier today, while Muchova will be looking to join her when playing Cristina Bucsa.Inside the baseline…This is a very interesting situation, and Irina Khromacheva’s frustrations are very much understandable. Karolina Muchova and Paula Badosa have both had a lot of serious injury struggles in recent times, but at the same time if they were not intending to play the whole doubles tournament then they probably should not have entered, as it makes a bit of a mockery of the doubles specialists who miss out as a result of their entry. This is especially relevant in Badosa’s case, as she this is the third time that she has done this in 2024.READ NEXT: Daniil Medvedev ‘sympathetic’ to Jannik Sinner after WADA appeal
