In an interview with a photoshoot for ELLE, the strong and beautiful Spaniard opened up about her feelings over the last difficult months
The last few months have not been easy for Paula Badosa, conditioned by a serious back problem that has de facto limited her career. The young, strong and beautiful Spanish tennis player is trying to get her career back on track, trying to regain confidence on the court. Her last performances have been encouraging; now, between the Paris Olympics and the second half of the season, Paula will have the opportunity to rediscover what she left behind in the last difficult 8 months.
In an interview with ELLE, with a related (fantastic) photoshoot, Badosa talked about the difficult period she went through, her back injury and her level, also revealing her ambitions for what is to come in the future.
“In a rough way, I had my back broken. The process was delicate and there were weeks when I couldn’t do anything. So as long as the injury allows me, because it’s chronic, I plan to continue playing for as many years as possible. When I’m well, I want to get back to being as high as possible. Obviously, I’m not happy with where I am now. I don’t delude myself. I know where I came from and everything I’m going through.
I spent eight months on a couch without moving and, of course, all kinds of insecurities and questions appear without looking for them, like: What do I do now? Who am I? Am I really worth it? Until you realize that you are the same as always and that those around you love you for it. That I am still the same and that they won’t change me for anything in the world.
The most important learning has been to be strong, to overcome myself every day and to accept that I am okay with what I can’t control, which is a lot in this sport. Something that also helps me in life. I have learned to be very patient and accept things that I cannot control, like an injury of this magnitude,” she said.
In another recent interview, Paula was forced once again to explain her thoughts and talk about her physical difficulties, after some fans and insiders criticized her love story with Stefanos Tsitsipas, justifying it (stupidly) as a source of distraction.
“Criticism is never easy to deal with, sometimes we find it funny because people don’t realize that we share this practice for tennis. Sometimes we also train together and in the end we also train a lot, I understand the criticism but we both train without distractions and we have a very clear goal. Personally, it bothers me that people talk about other people’s lives.
I can understand criticism of my tennis but to connect this to whether I win or lose seems disrespectful to me. I’ve already explained and I have nothing to say, that’s just our private life and we want to keep our relationship just for ourselves.
We didn’t like before that maybe our relationship was too public, so now we’re going to think about keeping everything for ourselves,” she explained.