Paula Badosa He stopped playing permanently in the last six months of last year. Since May he has had a stress injury to a vertebra, which he saw in Rome, which prevented him from playing at Roland Garros and failed a test at Wimbledon, where he suffered in the second match. No more tennis for him in 2023.
He returned with gusto in 2024, but back pain persisted for several weeks, forcing the Spaniard to withdraw from the tournament or retire from the court.
Last week Mutua Madrid opens suffered another setback, when playing against his Belarusian friend Aryna Sabalenka. This time, a small break in the adductor of his left leg, putting his performance at the Caja Mágica in jeopardy. In fact, this Monday he retired from training without finishing it.
Although everything is more serious than it may appear from the outside. The trial of the Catalan, 26 years old and world No. 101, has been cruel, because there is nothing worse for an athlete than the risk of seeing his career cut short early.
The testimony of Paula Badosa on the Insider podcast of the WTA, the body that governs the women’s professional circuit, was heartbreaking in its scope. In Indian Wells, he underwent several tests, with an alarming diagnosis: “The doctors told me that it would be difficult to continue” in tennis. “It’s very difficult for me,” he meant.
Badosa expressed his desire to try everything, because “for me to be able to play three or four more years would be incredible.”
Treatment with cortisone injections is the current sedative, the toll that will continue the circuit. He had a bad time in life, withdrawal crossed his mind, long ago and in a mental struggle with himself. A complex depressive episode, the expectations generated as a Roland Garros junior champion were not satisfied. Pressure, fear.
“I’ve had so many experiences, even mental things he remembers!”
“And now an injury that I never expected, for so long. After being up, now down again, trying again. It’s intense,” he explains.
He is number two in the world, in April 2022, and since this week he has been seen again outside the top-100, which he reached in 2019. Life is putting him to the test again. Paula Badosa.
“I always have the goal to be the best in the world, win tournaments and face the best. And that’s why I’m here. The reason I fight every day is the love I have for the sport,” said him as a warning. that he will try everything to continue in the racket world.
Source: La Verdad
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