Jannik Sinner and Anna Kalinskaya’s budding relationship isn’t the only romance taking over the French Open this year.
Stefanos Tsitsipas and Paula Badosa are set to play mixed doubles at the French Open starting Wednesday, shortly after confirming they are back together.
“Relations between the two countries are going very well right now,” Baldoza said at a press conference on Saturday before the start of the tournament. According to Tennis.com:“He’s already explained it. I have nothing to say.”
A few weeks later Badosa Revealed Announcing in early May that she and Tsitsipas had “decided to amicably separate,” the Greek athlete, ranked ninth in the world, explained why they needed time apart and what brought them back together.
“It was difficult being away and I was going through a difficult time too. I was feeling the pressure of the tour and work and you could say I couldn’t cope. Combining the two was a mountain to climb so I decided to take a break,” the 25-year-old Tsitsipas recently told Greek journalist Vicky Georgatou. As reported by Tennis.com:.
“After a few weeks, I realised she was someone who was very supportive of me. When she tried to talk to me about meeting up, I felt how strong the love we have for each other. I realised that my relationship with Paula was completely different from any relationship I’d had in the past.”
Confirming that the couple is “on good terms,” Tsitsipas called Badosa “my person.”
“We understand each other, and that makes everything I do worthwhile and I want to have her around as often as possible,” he said.
Ahead of her first-round match against Britain’s Katie Boulter on Tuesday, the 26-year-old Spaniard revealed that she and Tsitsipas wanted to keep their relationship more private.
“I think one of the things I didn’t like, or we didn’t like, was that it was very public, so we want to just keep it a little more on our own now. I understand it’s not easy because we’re both public figures and people are going to ask, but it’s never easy to combine your careers with that, so we want to just keep it on our own,” Badosa said. They once shared a joint “Tsitsidosa” Instagram account With her lover.
Tsitsipas and Badosa will face Japan’s Ena Shibahara and America’s Nathaniel Lammons in the first round of mixed doubles on Wednesday.
The 2023 Australian Open finalist will face Germany’s Daniel Altmaier in the second round on Wednesday.
Tsitsipas was first rumoured to be moving to Badosa in the summer of 2023.
