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After the “break” again, the Greek and the Spaniard will hold an official match together this Friday at Roland Garros.
They made their relationship official a year ago. Stefanos Tsitsipas and Paula Badosa form a duo on the court and in the city. And for the first time they will hold an official meeting together. A Spaniard (age 26) and a Greek (age 25) asked for a wild card: To join the mixed doubles table at Roland Garros. They will fight against Ena Shibahara and Nathaniel Lammons this Friday, May 31st.
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The romance between the two athletes officially begins in June 2023. Unofficially, we won’t know. Nevertheless, since then, the couple continues to proclaim their love to the whole world. On social networks, she, who has long been compared physically to Maria Sharapova, does not hesitate to show her relationship with the Roland Garros 2021 finalist. “I will always choose you, my love”, for example, the tennis player writes to her companion. , on Valentine’s Day.
In recent months, when one is playing, the other is never far away, usually in the stands. Which gave rise to an amusing sequence Wimbledon noticed Gentside . We see Paula Badosa looking at her stepfather, also her friend’s trainer, with a stunned look.
A break and a triumphant return
At the beginning of May, there was a twist, the star couple announced their separation. Intermission at the initiative of Stefanos Tsitsipas. “After careful discussion and many precious moments together, Stefanos and I have mutually decided to part ways,” Paula Badosa explained in an Instagram story. We have shared a journey full of love and learning, and as friends, it is with great mutual respect that we now choose to move forward on our own paths.
However, the story does not end here. A few days later the situation changed. The photos show the two athletes holding hands in Monaco. Could the pair put the pieces back together? Tsitsipas confirmed this to Greek media on Saturday, May 25 SDNA: yes, she is back in a relationship with Badosa after a few weeks break. “I realized that my relationship with Pola is completely different from the one I had before. I feel that he is my soulmate and we understand each other. It adds more value to everything I do, and I want him around me as often as possible.
It is difficult to balance both our career and personal life
Paula Badosa
When asked about her romantic relationship with the No.9 during her pre-tournament conference, Paula Badosa confirmed the news while asking for a bit of privacy. “Stephanos has already said everything, it’s quite clear. The relationship is working well now, he assures. He has already explained everything he has to say. I have nothing else to add. It’s our private life. What I didn’t like, what he didn’t like, was that our lives were really exposed to the public. Now we will try to keep the veil of secrecy over our relationship, to stay between us. It’s hard to juggle both our careers and our personal lives, but we’ll try to make things as simple as possible, because that’s what a healthy relationship is.”
This is not the first time the tennis world has seen pairings. The most famous of them remain Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf. We also remember Kim Clijsters and Lleyton Hewitt, Martina Hingis and Radek Stepanek, Maria Sharapova and Grigor Dimitrov, and more recently, Gael Monfils and Elina Svitolina, a couple since 2018 and the happy parents of little Skye.
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Source: Le Figaro
