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Paula Badosa

ESP28 yrs5' 11" (1.80 m)

Best WTA ranking No. 2

Indian Wells champion and former world No. 2.

Plays
Right-handed, two-handed backhand

Figures as of 30 September 2026.

Profile & career

From Roland-Garros junior champion to world No. 2.

A former world No. 2 and a hugely popular figure thanks to her generous personality, Spain's Paula Badosa is one of the big personalities of women's tennis.

On the professional tour she won the WTA 1000 at Indian Wells in 2021 and climbed to second in the world in April 2022. But a string of physical problems, anxiety and depression then halted her momentum. “It was very hard for me. I wasn't moving up the rankings and I was losing a lot,” she explained. In 2024 she managed to play a full season, and a title in Washington helped her finish the year ranked 12th in the world.

Born in New York to Spanish parents, Paula Badosa started playing tennis at the age of seven, after her family moved back to Barcelona. As a junior she rose to eighth in the world and won several tournaments, including Roland-Garros in 2015.

Did you know?She rose to world No. 2 in April 2022.

Paula Badosa hitting a forehand during a training session at the academy

GRAND SLAMS

Paula & the Grand Slams.

Quarter-finalist at Roland-Garros and the US Open.

Roland-GarrosClay courtBest resultQuarter-final2021
WimbledonGrass courtBest resultLast 162021, 2022, 2024
US OpenHard courtBest resultQuarter-final2024

CAREER

Titles, year by year.

After a difficult start to her career, Paula Badosa burst onto the scene by winning Indian Wells in 2021, beating former champion Victoria Azarenka in a final lasting more than three hours, a few weeks after a quarter-final in Cincinnati where she beat Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina. The following year she reached world No. 2 after an excellent clay-court swing that included a semi-final in Stuttgart. Injuries made 2023 a nightmare season and she dropped out of the top 50, before bouncing back in 2024 to finish 12th in the WTA rankings. In 2021, the year she broke through at the highest level, she also reached her first Grand Slam quarter-final at Roland-Garros; after several difficult years, mentally and physically, she returned to that stage at the 2024 US Open.

Junior career

  1. 2012

    Started her junior career at the age of 14.

  2. 2014

    Won her first junior tournament in Casablanca and finished runner-up at the European Junior Championships.

  3. 2015

    Won the Roland-Garros junior title, when the media began comparing her with Maria Sharapova, then decided to focus on the professional tour. She reached eighth in the junior world rankings and won four junior titles, three of them in singles.

WTA titles

  1. 2021

    Belgrade · Indian Wells

  2. 2022

    Sydney

  3. 2024

    Washington

STATISTICS & RECORDS

Key numbers.

13

Top-10 wins

Wins over top-10 players, including former world No. 1 Ashleigh Barty in Charleston in 2021.

4

WTA titles

Belgrade, Indian Wells, Sydney and Washington.

MOURATOGLOU ACADEMY

Her link with the Mouratoglou Academy.

Paula Badosa often comes to train at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy, usually alongside Stefanos Tsitsipas.

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Badosa's training is NOT for the weak

GAME & EQUIPMENT

How Paula plays.

Her game

Paula Badosa is a very powerful baseline attacker. Her athleticism gives her excellent movement around the court and, together with her style of play, has led many to compare her with her idol, Maria Sharapova.

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ON COURT

Train where Paula trains.

The same courts, coaches and methodology, on the French Riviera: camps for juniors and adults, all year round.

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Aerial view of the Mouratoglou Academy clay and hard courts on the French Riviera