Paula Badosa It is one of the most outstanding figures of Spanish tennis, but his time in professional tennis could be coming to an end. The Catalan tennis player suffers a chronic lesion on her back, specifically a stress fracture in the L4 vertebra that drags since 2023. It is a condition that will sooner or later force her to go through the operating room and to leave professional tennis, but at the moment she is pulling with infiltrations to try Grand Slam.
Badosa’s injury does not prevent it from competing, but it limits it to the maximum and at some times the pain is unbearable and cannot play. In this dirt of beaten by Europe, which faced with total illusion, its injury has once again manifested itself, forcing it to withdraw from WTA 1000 from Madrid First and this Thursday of the WTA 1000 Rome just before your debut against Naomi osaka. This ailment has been preventing it from playing more than a month so the tournaments of Charleston and Stuttgart has also skipped. That is, this is the fourth event that is lost.
Badosa does not compete since March 23, when he retired from Miami Open before his round of 16 against Alexandra Eala due to intense back pain. Although he trained with some normality in Rome, he finally chose not to play so as not to risk his participation in Roland Garros, where he reached the quarterfinals in 2021 and is able to be able to go further in this edition, since his semifinals in the Open the Australia 2025 They give him that plus of trust. However, it will reach the major Parisino without having played a single match on beaten land this season, a situation that complicates its aspirations in a tournament that demands maximum physical and technical performance.
Despite these difficulties, Badosa remains in the top 10 of the WTA rankingalthough its prolonged inactivity foresees an imminent fall in the classification. His beginning of the season was promising, reaching the semifinals in the Open of Australia, but the reappearance of his injury has truncated his progression. The female circuit is very matched and a long break can be paid very expensive, but Badosa is not to compete right now.
-Badosa is aware of what happens
The Catalan tennis player has been frank about her situation. In a recent interview with Eurosport, he expressed his feeling crudely, but admitted that he was not going to stop until he achieved his great goal of his career: «Without a Grand Slam, my career will have been a fucking shit». These words reflect the pressure you feel to achieve a Grand Slam title, an objective that has been resisted so far and considers essential to make sense of your career. At 27, she still has time to achieve it, but she admits that “I will not have a long career.”
The bad thing is that the lesions do not make it easy and time passes without a solution being found. Badosa’s physical calvary has been long and painful. Since he suffered the fracture in Rome in 2023, has followed intensive treatment which includes magnetotherapy, infiltrations and physiotherapy sessions of more than four hours a day. Despite the efforts, doctors have warned him that continuing to compete at the highest level could be complicated, even recommending a break of more than a year.
Badosa, however, has shown an unwavering determination. He has consulted specialists in Switzerland, the United States, Dubai and Spain, looking for solutions for their ailment. Its objective is clear: continue to compete and achieve that long -awaited Grand Slam. «I have a minimum of five or six more years, I don’t want to stop now”He said a while ago, although in his last interviews he has recognized that, to conquer a Grand Slam, he would assess the immediate withdrawal.
The situation, however, is delicate. The need for constant infiltrations and the risk of aggravating their injury make each tournament a fire test. His participation in Roland Garros is in doubt, and his future in the circuit will depend on how his physical condition evolves in the coming weeks. Paula Badosa is at a crossroads. His talent and determination are indisputable, but his body is imposing difficult limits to overcome. She loves tennis and wants continue to record your name in historybut his physique every time gives him less breath.
