It is one thing to have enough strength to overcome an injury and another very different to do it without losing the smile at any time and placed in the number nine of the world ranking of the Women’s Tennis Association. At 27 years, Paula Badosawhich began his career in 2015 and holds four individual titles in WTA tournaments, including the prestigious Masters of Indian Wells in 2021, he prepared until the last moment to participate in the Mutua Madrid Openwhich usually gather many known faces. Finally, on Friday 25 in the morning the tennis player announced that I could not participate In this edition.
The tournament began on April 21 and will run until May 4 in the emblematic Magic Box of Madrid. Badosa, who had also traveled to our to attend the delivery of the Laureus 2025 Awards, the so -called “Sports Óscar”, has not been part because, although it seemed that yes, it has not yet recovered correctly from the injury he contracted last year. We were able to talk to her hours before the ad and was especially excited.
© Paulabadosa© PaulabadosaThe tennis player received us in one of the warm rooms of the Four Seasons hotelwhere he still stays. Lucia a sports look at the same time cool formed by leggings slightly camping blacks and type jacket cropped In blue. Also white shoes with discreet platform, because the eighty -two subway that inherited from His parents models It makes the heel does not abound in his closet. Paula was close and kind. He emanated that enviable serenity necessary to compete professional.
Hello!: You have recovered physically and mentally from an important injury and prepare for the mutual Madrid Open. What has helped you?
Paula Badosa: Physically, what has helped me is to do many treatments. I have never hidden it. I have gone through many infiltrations. At first the body did not respond well and we were a little scared, but now it seems that yes, and that the pain has gone. However, mentally it is always difficult because when you have been doing a very good season and something suddenly stops you, there is a process that sometimes costs, but I think that in the end, as, unfortunately, I have experience with injuries, I take it quite well.
Meditation also helps you in this regard, isn’t it? But do you mediate alone?
Yes, I mediate alone. My psychologist happens to me what I have to do and every morning I do it alone. I get up strongly and help me a lot.
© Paulabadosa© PaulabadosaPaula Badosa was more than List and mentalized to compete in Mutua Madrid Open 2025. His debut was scheduled for Friday, April 25, when He would face one of the Kudermetova sistersthat were measured in the first round. The tennis player told us that she was trying to rest, train and care for the big day. He told us that a very strict diet was not continuing, but that he was trying to carry a healthy, conscious diet and maintain a good relationship with food.
Why is this tournament important for you?
It is important because it is playing at home and makes me excited. It is special for being able to play in front of my people, in front of those who follow me when I am in Australia and see me at three in the morning. It is a tournament that will always be special to me.
You were told that despite your sporting achievements, you also face insecurities. For many, sport, in this sense, helps, but, in your case, sport is actually work. What helps you then?
What helps me deal with my insecurities is to recognize them. That is something that I think we all have to work and get step by step every day. There are also days when I see that I have taken two steps back, but you have to look for a way to advance. Sport does not help me as such because it is my job, but going to the gym alone with my music or the spa does help me a lot. Give me small awards; That is what helps me.
© Paulabadosa“What helps me deal with my insecurities is to recognize them, go to the gym alone with my music and give me small awards“.
In line with that self -care that Badosa contemplates as a way of rewarding for her effort every day, the tennis player has collaborated with several beauty firms. He considers that trying to see each other better on the outside also contributes to improving the way we talk to ourselves and the way we face the day to day. Therefore, in addition, it becomes beautiful amulets accessories. For example, it usually puts long earrings to play. In our encounter some in silver in whose design process he has participated actively. Although he could not reveal anything of this projectHe told us that there were few weeks left to see the light. At the moment it is giving pildoritas on social networks.
Would you say that taking care of yourself also helps you improve your self -esteem?
100%. I think we should all take care of ourselves in that aspect. When you go to the hairdresser and you look pretty, you feel good. Or when you make up and you feel good that day … I think they are small things that raise self -esteem.
In humor we ask him if his self -esteem goes up more when his partner realizes those things (that he has gone to the hairdresser or has made makeup in a different way). Paula laughed: “That’s difficult. I think The men in that have to improve Much, but luckily I have friends who do notice and they tell me, “he told us with a laugh.
© PaulabadosaIs there any product or treatment that you have recently discovered and has become for you an essential?
For me the essential is not the product but the origin. I am looking for organic products. I don’t like chemists too much. I always try to buy everything as natural as possible.
Well, you must choose well because you have precious skin! How do you get it despite the trips, the sun of the track, the sweat …?
Phew! That is the best thing you can tell me, I have beautiful skin. I don’t know how I get it because with so many trips it is not easy! Between you and me, I think it’s because I get many [tratamientos] facials I try to take great care in that regard. But it is complicated because I have a very stressful life, travel, jet laysleep little, a lot of sun …
© PaulabadosaWould you say that sunscreen is your basic product?
Yes. It is the only thing that I do not do without. I put sunscreen on the skin and hair. The two things and nothing more. I try to make up the minimum and carry the skin as clean as possible.
And how do you compensate for having to carry your hair always collected and in tension on the track?
I try to take it as much collected as possible, but little else. I do hydration treatments and I try not to touch it much and take it very natural.
Do you have any trick to maintain a clear and rested face despite your constant trips?
Unfortunately, I have no trick because I am not a person who sleeps a lot. It costs me. Rarely I arrive at eight hours. So, honestly, when I don’t rest I just pray for having a good face in the morning.
© karmaflow© karmaflowPaula Badosa’s parents, Josep Badosa and Mireia Gibert, moved to New York from their native Girona to develop their races in the world of fashion as models and photographers. It was in this city where Paula was born and lived until the age of seven, at which time the family returned to Spain.
Now that Mother’s Day is coming and having been yours, what is the best beauty advice you have given you?
She is an example to follow. I am a very simple person. I am not to wear a lot of makeup. She has always told me to be simple. She is not a person who puts up a lot. In the end I believe that that’s why I have good skin, hair and eyelashes. I don’t wear it much in that aspect.
In fact, your mother has a fashion firm called Karmaflow. Is the philosophy of the brand that has prevailed at home? Have you been ‘flow’?
Completely. Flow, go by instinct. Let yourself be carried away by what you feel and guide you for energies. I think so. I would say that this is the philosophy of life that they have transmitted to me at home.
© PaulabadosaAnd the one you also apply with your partner on a day -to -day basis?
Completely! I think he also goes a lot with him flow. We try to flow a lot. He is also a person of sensations and very instinct, and I think we seem a lot in that sense.
Is that the secret for a relationship to last like yours?
Yes. I think having a similar essence always helps. Having differences is good, but there is a similar essence always helps.
© GTRES“We try to flow and we seem a lot. Having differences is good, but there is a similar essence, it always helps“.
Paula always smiles when talking about Greek tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipaswith whom he went to the Laureus World Sports awards and has a romantic relationship for almost two years. They began to leave in May 2023, and although they announced a break twelve months later, they were reconciled only 20 days later, which made their followers very happy. Paula says that at the beginning It was hard for them to be a media couplebut he affirms that every day it is easier because they have learned to live with it since they care less what is said about their courtship.
The professional career he has chosen and what his success in the frame safe And, above all, very aware of the need to take care of your mental health to continue growing in any sense. In his smile and his eyes he reads that the best just started.
