Paula Badosa has confirmed she has reunited with Stefanos Tsitsipas before facing her friend Katie Boulter in the French Open first round. The Spaniard and the Greek announced they had split earlier this month.
Tennis’s power couple – often dubbed ‘Tsitsidosa’ – had broken up earlier this month. But the pair have rekindled their relationship just weeks later, with Badosa following Tsitsipas in confirming the news.
Badosa said: “He already said everything. It’s pretty clear. The relationship is working very well now. He already explained. I have nothing else to say.
“I mean, it’s already our private life. I think one of the things that I didn’t like or we didn’t like is that it was very public, so now we want to keep things a little bit more on our own.
“I still understand that it’s not going to be easy because we are two public people, public person, and people will ask, but we want to keep it more for ourselves because it’s never easy to combine our careers to that. Let’s just try to keep it simple for both of us, because I think it helps and it’s healthier.”
It comes after Tsitsipas revealed: “We’re together. I will explain why some people make up different stories about us. Not that I care, but I think people shouldn’t take it that way. Neither Paula did anything wrong, nor did I do anything wrong. It was hard for us being apart and I was going through some hard times too.
“I would say that I didn’t manage it very well either, because I was feeling the pressure of the tour, of my work. It seemed like a mountain to combine these two (personal and professional life) and I made the decision to take a break.
“After two-three weeks I realised that she is a woman who has supported me a lot and when she tried to talk to me about meeting I felt how intense the love we have for each other is.
“I realised that this relationship I have with Paula is completely different from any other relationship I have had in the past, I feel that she is my person and we understand each other.
“And that puts more value in everything I do and I want her by my side as often as possible. So yes, we’ve reconnected and we’re in good shape!”
Badosa and Tsitsipas initially got together in June 2023 and launched an Instagram page under the same name documenting their adventures together.
