Spanish tennis player Paula Badosa has a well-known and chronic back injury that took her out of the sport for over a year before she returned in 2024 and earned WTA Comeback Player of the Year.
Badosa, 27, recently opened up to Eurosport about how she lives and trains with the back injury that she believes will definitely shorten her playing career. She describes being in constant pain, relying on her doctors and injections that produce negative side effects, and trying to compete at the highest level in the midst of all of this. Badosa says the challenges are physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausting.
