Paula Badosa ’s journey has been a fierce ballad of grit and heartbreak. Struck in Rome 2023 by a cruel lower back injury that fractured two vertebrae, she clawed her way back to glory, seizing the Mubadala Citi D.C. Open crown in 2024. Yet fate’s cruel refrain returned in Merida, March 2025, halting her charge and forcing painful exits from Indian Wells and Miami.

Unfortunately, even that did not mark the end of her woes, as a tear in her psoas meant that she would not be able to defend her title in Washington. “I’m going through a really tough time,” she wrote on X. And now, with the US Open , the season’s final grand stage, glimmering in the bright lights of Flushing Meadows, Badosa delivers yet another gut-punch to her fans: the crushing news of yet another withdrawal.

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