Paula Badosa rips ‘disrespectful’ comments about Stefanos Tsitsipas relationship

Badosa hits back at critics of her love story with Tsitsipas.

Paula Badosa rips ‘disrespectful’ comments about Stefanos Tsitsipas relationship

Paula Badosa pretty much thinks some of her critics don’t even know what they are really saying at times as the Spanish tennis star finds it both funny and disrespectful when some start pointing fingers at her relationship with Stefanos Tsitsipas when she doesn’t do well in a certain tournament.

Since becoming a thing in 2023 May, Badosa and Tsitsipas have gone through some pretty challenging rough and challenging periods. It can be especially said for Badosa, who missed a good portion of the 2023 season due to a back issue before the doctors diagnosed it is as a chronic issue this past spring.

On the other side, world No. 12 Tsitsipas has managed to win the Monte Carlo Masters this year. But apart from that, the 25-year-old Greek hasn’t done pretty well in Grand Slams this year and he is currently out of the top-10 – which led to some claiming that he has regressed since starting his love story with Badosa.

Addressing the criticism directed their way, Badosa suggests she sometimes feels shocked and stunned over some of the comments.

“Criticism is never easy to deal with, although sometimes we find it funny because people don’t realize that we are two people who share the same passion. Sometimes, apart from separately, we also train together, so in the end we train as much or more than anyone else. I could understand this criticism of distraction more if it were with a person from another world, but being two athletes with a very clear objective, what I think is that people don’t even know what they are judging,” Badosa told La Vanguardia.

Badosa: That seems disrespectful to me…

From very early in their relationship, Tsitsipas started talking about how Badosa was pushing and motivating him to improve as a player and achieve his tennis dreams. When making those revelations, two-time Grand Slam finalist Tsitsipas also said he would like to see him and Badosa accomplish their tennis goals together.

Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened so far and that led to some comments about which Badosa wasn’t impressed. And personally, Badosa says she feels it is “disrespectful” when some blame their personal lives on their results.

“Personally, what bothers me the most is that people talk about other people’s realities. I can understand criticism of my professional side, of my tennis, of whether I lose or win, but linking that to something personal seems disrespectful to me,” Badosa noted.

What Tsitsipas and Badosa said after they reconciled?

In early May, Badosa made all the headlines after she announced via an Instagram Story that she and Tsitsipas broke up. However, it turned out to be just a short split since they reunited just two weeks later.

After arriving at Roland Garros, Tsitsipas decided to explain what happened simply because he didn’t want people to speculate about their relationship.

“We are together. I’m going to explain why some people create different stories about us. It’s not that I care, but I don’t think people should take it like that. Paula didn’t do anything wrong and neither did I. It was hard for us to be apart and I was also going through difficult times,” Tsitsipas told reporters at the French Open.

“I would say that I didn’t take it very well either, because I felt the pressure of the tour, of my work. It seemed like a mountain to combine the two things (tennis and romantic life) and I made the decision to take a break. After two or three weeks I realized that she is a person who has supported me a lot and, when she tried to talk to me again, I felt how intense the love we have for each other is.”

At the time, Badosa didn’t want to add anything. Instead, she just stated that Tsitsipas’ comments were also hers.

“He already explained and I have nothing else to say, I mean, it’s our private life. I think one of the things that we didn’t like is that it was very public, so now we want to keep it to ourselves. We know it’s not going to be easy because we are two public people so people will ask, but we want to keep it more to ourselves,” Badosa said.

While Badosa has made it clear that she doesn’t like when people speak negatively about her relationship with Tsitsipas, it is hard to believe that this will change anything since some people just love to blame their love story whenever they don’t do well.