Badosa sows doubt: "I don't know if I will go to Roland Garros"

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Paula Badosa is in the news again after appearing on Mario Suárez's podcast and confessing her recent thoughts there. Clearly affected by her recent results, the news is that she herself doesn't know whether she will travel to Roland Garros or not.

And perhaps this might be the most intelligent decision considering the circumstances. Paula Badosa has been striving to find her best form in recent months, but it's evident that the results haven't been forthcoming. Now that her ranking requires her to go through the qualifying rounds and her mind is craving a break, it's possible that the Spanish player may opt for a pause in her career until she has regained all the energy she possesses. Will she play at Roland Garros or watch it from home? There's nothing official yet, but it's clear that both options are currently being considered in her mind.

How is Paula Badosa?

"Obviously, speaking from a sports perspective, I'm not as well as I would like or as I'm perhaps used to. It's been a tough year in that regard, many injuries. And then when the body seems to be responding, mentally I've also lost a lot of confidence in myself. I think that from tough situations and difficult moments, you rebuild yourself, you become stronger. Right now, I'm not at the professional point I'd like to be, that's a reality”.

A very tough period on the court

“I've been fighting hard for five months, but the matches are not going my way, I've never had so many consecutive losses. In Madrid, I expended a lot of energy battling against my mind, it's been exhausting months, there came a point in the third set where I completely shut down. I had a conversation with my team, and I think I now need a break, to see what happens here and gather strength to come back. Right now, I feel like I'm burning out, although I don't know if it will be two, three, or four weeks. In fact, it's been two days and I'm already thinking about training”.

Paula Badosa questions her participation in Roland Garros

“I don't know if I'm going, to be honest. I'm revealing a secret, I'm opening up, it will depend solely on whether I have that strength. I know that if I have that strength, things work out. It's more mental, physically I've suffered quite a bit, but I have been physically fine all last month, so far, in that aspect”.

Dealing with defeat, the challenge to overcome

“I have many years of career, the other day it struck me, it's been 11 years of a career. But it's incredible that I still haven't learned how to lose, it's something that overwhelms me. I take it very personally, winning or losing means that I'm worth more or less as a person. I try to look at it with perspective, to separate the tennis Paula from the person Paula, I try not to treat each match as if it were a matter of life or death”.

Nighttime activity and difficulty in sleeping

“I don't sleep, it's very difficult for me. People who send messages at night know that I'll reply immediately, they know me and know that I'm awake. I usually sleep 2-3 hours, and at 06:00 in the morning, I wake up and leave the room. I've been working on the mental aspect for many years, but then I also try to step out of that professional part and do other things in the professional field”.

Her toughest moment

“I think now, perhaps I'm doubting more, I have more fears about everything happening in my professional life. Now is the moment where I'm suffering the most. I've been working with my psychologist for years, I believe in that person who is with you day by day. Fortunately, I have their support, the mind is the only part of the body that you can't stop, when it runs away from you, it's very difficult to stop those self-destructive thoughts”.

This news is an automatic translation. You can read the original news, Badosa siembra la duda: “No sé si iré a Roland Garros”