{"id":194346,"date":"2025-10-01T09:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/194346\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T09:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:06:09","slug":"paula-badosa-out-for-season-vows-to-return-stronger-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/194346\/","title":{"rendered":"Paula Badosa out for season, vows to return &#8216;stronger&#8217; in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sep 30, 2025, 10:36 AM ET<\/p>\n<p>MADRID &#8212; Spanish tennis player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2731\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paula Badosa<\/a> is not expected to play again this year, saying she will keep fighting to try to &#8220;come back stronger&#8221; in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Badosa made the announcement on Instagram on Tuesday, a couple of days after she retired from the China Open because of a left hip injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are times when I ask myself how I manage to keep going through the toughest moments. And the truth is, it&#8217;s in those exact moments that I discover the deepest strength inside me,&#8221; Badosa said. &#8220;Every setback hurts, but it also reminds me how badly I want to fight, how much I want to come back stronger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 18th-ranked Badosa retired while trailing No. 15 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3039\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karolina Muchova<\/a> 4-2 in the first set on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No matter how many obstacles come my way, I promise you this: I will keep fighting, I will keep pushing, and I will keep finding my way back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Badosa was as high as No. 2 in the world back in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;See you in 2026,&#8221; her post said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sep 30, 2025, 10:36 AM ET MADRID &#8212; Spanish tennis player Paula Badosa is not expected to play&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":["post-194346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194346","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=194346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194346\/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=194346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}