{"id":49634,"date":"2025-04-25T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/49634\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T14:50:09","slug":"pain-in-spain-badosa-withdraws-from-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/49634\/","title":{"rendered":"Pain in Spain: Badosa Withdraws from Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size:13px !important;padding-right:2%;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Badosa-Kiss-HannahPeters-Getty.aspx.jpeg\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Richard Pagliaro | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tennis_Now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Tennis_Now\u00a0<\/a>| Friday, April 25, 2025<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPhoto credit: Hannah Peters\/Getty<\/p>\n<p>Spanish stars are vanishing from Madrid&#8217;s Magic Box.<\/p>\n<p><b>Paula Badosa<\/b>\u00a0withdrew from the Mutua Madrid Open due to a lingering back injury.<\/p>\n<p>World No. 9 Badosa announced her withdrawal on social media before her scheduled opener against\u00a0<b>Veronika Kudermetova<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tennisexpress.com\/pages\/easter-sale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tennis Express\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Tenn-express-easter.aspx.jpeg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hello everyone. I wanted to let you know that unfortunately I won&#8217;t be able to compete in the Madrid Open,&#8221; Badosa posted. &#8220;I tried everything possible until the last moment because you know how excited I am to play at home, but it is a complicated injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope to be 100% soon. A big hug, Paula.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish women&#8217;s No. 1 departure comes a day after two-time Madrid champion and Spanish superstar<strong> Carlos Alcaraz<\/strong> was forced out due to injury.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DIuBck7tVSY\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"><p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The back issue has limited Badosa to 22 matches this season.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old Badosa appeared to aggravate the injury in her Miami Open win over Clara Tauson. Badosa withdrew from Miami before her scheduled round of 16 clash vs. 19-year-old Filipina Alexandra Eala and has not played a tournament since then.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now\u00a0| Friday, April 25, 2025&#13; Photo credit: Hannah Peters\/Getty Spanish stars are vanishing from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[26779,26780,26781,2000,299,26770,104,26778,26777,26774,26784,26785,26782,26771,26775,26776,26783,26772,26773],"class_list":{"0":"post-49634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-blog-about-tennis","9":"tag-blog-on-tennis","10":"tag-blogs-about-tennis","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-net-notes-blog","14":"tag-spain","15":"tag-tennis-blog","16":"tag-tennis-blogs","17":"tag-tennis-gossip","18":"tag-tennis-instruction","19":"tag-tennis-lessons","20":"tag-tennis-now","21":"tag-tennis-now-blogs","22":"tag-tennis-pictures","23":"tag-tennis-stories","24":"tag-tennis-tips","25":"tag-tennis-tweets","26":"tag-tennis-youtube-videos"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114399165409451674","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}