{"id":11446,"date":"2025-07-15T10:51:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/11446\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T10:51:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:51:04","slug":"paula-badosa-faces-several-weeks-on-sideline-after-fresh-back-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/11446\/","title":{"rendered":"Paula Badosa faces several weeks on sideline after fresh back injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 15, 2025, 12:39 AM ET<\/p>\n<p><a data-player-guid=\"c6e9dd09-9179-acab-8601-da5b1ce04d30\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2731\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paula Badosa<\/a> said she will be out of action for a few weeks due to another back injury, leaving the world number 10 in a race to be fit for next month&#8217;s U.S. Open.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish former world number two has worked her way back into the top 10 this year after a string of injuries, including a chronic lower back issue, had left her contemplating retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Badosa lost 6-2 3-6 6-4 to <a data-player-guid=\"deff75f7-ab53-fa1f-d53b-1d2c6433e266\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2054\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katie Boulter<\/a> in the first round of Wimbledon earlier this month, and in a statement on Monday said she had suffered a tear in her psoas, the muscle which connects the lower back to the top of the leg.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are really challenging times for me but I&#8217;m staying hopeful that things will turn around soon and the light at the end of the tunnel will start to shine through,&#8221; Badosa said, adding that the injury had occurred before Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>Badosa is scheduled to play alongside <a data-player-guid=\"eeae43af-cdf0-43b4-7dd4-2475555a445e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2869\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stefanos Tsitsipas<\/a> in the U.S. Open&#8217;s revamped mixed doubles event, which will take place a week before the August 24 to September 7 singles main draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 15, 2025, 12:39 AM ET Paula Badosa said she will be out of action for a few&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-11446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}