Injuries are Paula Badosa’s big problem because they do not allow her to compete with the regularity that she would like. After a great 2024, … in which she regained her ‘top 10’ status and once again won titles and went far in the Grand Slams, the Spaniard encountered the reality of her body in 2025 and returned to intermittency and recurring physical problems.
And the year began in an almost unbeatable way with a semifinal at the Australian Open that marked the best result of his career in a Grand Slam. At the end of the tournament in Melbourne, Badosa was among the ten best in the world, a position consistent with her tennis, but one that her body does not allow her to maintain over time.
He was only able to play eleven more tournaments throughout the year, in total, 22 matches. From Australia he only won twelve games and his best results were three quarterfinals. Between the chronic back problem and a psoas tear he suffered on the grass tour, Badosa’s season was derailed starting in the summer. Since retiring at the Berlin tournament in June, he has only played four more matches in the remainder of 2025.
Bouzas’ progression
«There are times when I wonder how I manage to move forward in the hardest and most painful moments. And the truth is that it is precisely in those moments when I discover the deepest strength within me. Every setback hurts, but it also reminds me how much I want to fight, how much I want to come back stronger,” said the Catalan.
Badosa finishes the year within the top 25 on the rankings and is the only Spaniard along with Jessica Bouzas in the ‘top 50’. The progression of the one from Pontevedra is one of the great news of the year along with the recovery of Cristina Bucsa, born in Moldova and settled in Cantabria, and the return to the circuit of Sara Sorribes. The woman from Castellón took a few months off in April due to mental health problems, which are increasingly abundant and well-known in elite sport, and returned to competition in November.
