Discover the career path of Paula Badosa, from the first major opportunity to industry-changing achievements.
Paula Badosa is a Spanish professional tennis player who achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 2 in singles. She has won four WTA Tour singles titles, highlighted by a WTA 1000 victory at Indian Wells. Badosa reached a Grand Slam semifinal at the 2025 Australian Open solidifying her place among the top players in the sport.
In May 2012, Paula Badosa made her debut on the ITF Women's Circuit in Getxo.
In September 2012, at the age of 14, Paula Badosa made her debut at the ITF Junior Circuit.
In November 2013, Paula Badosa won her first title in Sant Jordi.
In February 2014, Paula Badosa won her first junior singles title at the Grade-1 Mediterranee Avenir in Casablanca.
In April 2014, Paula Badosa won the doubles title at the Grade-1 Trofeo Juan Carlos Ferrero tournament in Villena.
In May 2014, Paula Badosa reached the semifinals of the Grade-A Trofeo Bonfiglio in doubles.
In 2014, Paula Badosa reached the quarterfinals in both singles and doubles at the French Open junior division. She also reached the quarterfinals in singles at Wimbledon in the juniors division. Additionally, she finished runner-up at the European Junior Championships in singles and doubles.
In March 2015, Paula Badosa had her first breakthrough at the Miami Open, where she recorded her first two match wins on the WTA Tour after receiving a wildcard for the main draw. She lost to Karolína Plíšková in the third round.
In 2015, Paula Badosa completed her junior career by winning the girls' singles title at the French Open.
After 226 weeks, in August 2019 Paula Badosa fell out of the top 100, to No. 101, for the first time since she first entered it on 5 August 2019.
In 2019, Paula Badosa broke into the top 100 in the world tennis rankings.
In 2019, Paula Badosa made her major main-draw debut at the Australian Open. She also reached her first WTA Tour semifinal at the Palermo Ladies Open, losing to Kiki Bertens. She then reached the semifinals of the WTA 125 Karlsruhe Open and debuted in the top 100. At the Korea Open, she reached the quarterfinals but lost to Wang Yafan.
In 2020, Paula Badosa recorded her first match win in a Grand Slam tournament at the Australian Open, defeating Johanna Larsson. She reached the semifinals at the İstanbul Cup. Her biggest result of the year was at the French Open, where she reached her first round of 16 at a major, defeating Sloane Stephens and Jeļena Ostapenko.
In 2020, Paula Badosa represented Spain in the Summer Olympics women's singles and women's doubles events. She reached the quarterfinals in singles before retiring due to heatstroke, which led to changes in match start times. Badosa and her partner Sara Sorribes Tormo lost in the second round of the doubles competition to Barbora Krejčíková and Kateřina Siniaková.
In 2020, at the Australian Open, Paula Badosa reached the second week for the first time in her career. This result, alongside Garbiñe Muguruza's second round exit, made Badosa the highest ranked Spanish player, making her top 5 debut the following week.
On August 12, 2021, Paula Badosa parted ways with her coach Javier Martí. On August 23, 2021, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 26 following her second WTA 1000 quarterfinal at the Cincinnati Open.
On October 17, 2021, Paula Badosa won the Indian Wells tournament, defeating Victoria Azarenka, for her first WTA 1000 title.
On November 8, 2021, Paula Badosa made her top 10 debut. She also qualified for the 2021 WTA Finals and was the first in her round-robin group to reach the semifinals.
In 2021, Paula Badosa won her first career title in Belgrade and entered the top 10 following a WTA 1000 title at Indian Wells.
In April 2022, Paula Badosa achieved her highest doubles ranking of world No. 124.
In 2022, at Cincinnati, Paula Badosa reached her first WTA 1000 semifinal since 2022 with wins over Peyton Stearns, 13th seed Anna Kalinskaya, Yulia Putintseva and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, all in straight sets, before losing to sixth seed Jessica Pegula.
In early 2022, Paula Badosa peaked at world No. 2 in singles ranking.
In January 2023, Paula Badosa appeared in Season 1 of the tennis docuseries Break Point, which premiered on Netflix on January 13, 2023.
In January 2023, at the China Open, Paula Badosa reached her second straight WTA 1000 semifinal with wins over Viktoriya Tomova, Rebecca Šramková, Jessica Pegula and Zhang Shuai. She lost to Coco Gauff in the Semifinals. With this result, she came back to the top 15 in the rankings for the first time since January 2023.
In August 2024, Paula Badosa won the Washington Open, her fourth career title, and returned to the top 50 in the rankings, to No. 40.
In early 2024, Paula Badosa dropped out of the world's top 100 due to injury struggles, but resurged in the latter half of the season, returning to the top 15 and being named the Comeback Player of the Year.
In 2025, Paula Badosa reached a major semifinal at the Australian Open.
In May 2025, Paula Badosa partnered with The 1916 Company to create a jewelry collection called 'Aces'.
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