Paula Badosa is not living a good moment. The Spanish tennis player is going through a crisis in sports results, something that is also affecting her a lot on an emotional level, as she has recognized in recent months. This Thursday, in The spar, the 24-year-old player spoke openly about everything that is happening to her.
The public exhibition: “I would like to be less exposed, it is not something that I enjoy. I would like to leave a tennis court and that nobody knows who I am. It is an extra pressure that I am not used to. I come from a town, I liked to play sports I didn’t know what all this entailed. It’s a challenge that I’m learning.”
A change in this to: “Perhaps the exposure is the price to pay, but I do what I like the most and I am lucky. But the negative part is a bit that, and this year I am perhaps in another position, and I notice that each game or each thing that do outside of tennis makes me very exposed.
Regarding the sports press, in women’s tennis it is more complicated because the critics say that you are off center… I don’t see that on the men’s side
Social networks: “I deleted some of my social networks, I came back and there was a controversy. I had a crisis. I took them off again and now I can’t even see who mentions me. In fact, I won’t look at the networks at the end of this interview. The last controversy that I had in networks that I handled very badly, a crisis came to me at that moment… I also experience the good part of the networks: a lot of feedback is given, you get involved with the fans, I think they have that good part, but I don’t know how do it to get him on the positive path.
the sports press: “I am going to be honest with this (…) The sports press is not in the best of times and many times it is more pink press than sports, that is why I have also moved away a bit. About the sports press, in women’s tennis It’s more complicated because the critics say that you’re unfocused, if you have a marketing agreement, you tell yourself that you don’t perform… I don’t see that on the male side”.
Paula Badosa claims less pressure: “I am not Rafa Nadal nor will I be”
Carlos Alcaraz: “It’s amazing, I saw the US Open and it was spectacular, how he recovered from one match to another… He’s flowing, but what impresses me the most is how he is, as a person he is humble, hard-working… He could be many years as number 1 but it’s not going to look like it, and for me that’s the most valuable thing”.
More pressure the Grand Slam or number 1?: “What I have clear is that I would like to win a Grand Slam much more. But it’s like choosing whether you love mom or dad more.”
A week ago, Paula Badosa staged her bad sporting moment with a tweet in which I said “I didn’t even win to the parchs” after falling in the Tokyo tournament. Something that made her receive multiple supports, but also criticism, as she herself staged in Instagram with a fan who months before told him that he was going to be number 1 and now asked him to retire from tennis.
