Paula Badosa Gibert is a Spanish tennis player. Badosa Gibert was born in New York, where his parents worked in the fashion industry. When he was seven years old, the family returned to Spain. She lives in Barcelona.

Badosa Gibert started playing tennis at the age of seven years old, and her favourite surface is the hard court. She plays on the ITF women's World Tennis Tour and has won seven individual victories, there is until now.

The Spaniard was one of the best in their age group between the juniors and won the junior competition at the French Open in 2015, in the final against Anna Kalinskaya, without having dropped a set during the tournament. In that moment, she could already look back on several years of experience as a professional player in the ITF tour.

On the WTA Tour in the year 2015, she entered the Miami Open in Key Biscane with a wildcard; in the third round, he lost in two sets to the rear quarterfinalist Karolína Plíšková.

As a result, he also received a wildcard to the qualifying for the Premier Mandatory tournament in Madrid, where he immediately reached the main draw, but in the round, he had to give up against Sara Errani at the score of 0:3 due to an injury.

Paula Badosa Gibert

In June of the same year, he won his first title in a tournament on the ITF of the $ 25,000 category in Denain. In his first Grand Slam of the appearance of women in the Open Sea of the United States, was eliminated in the second round of classification.

After this, the actions of Badosa, who was struggling with the transition from the ITF for the WTA Tour, she stopped for a long period of time. In Miami, Madrid and Mallorca, where he entered the main draw with a wild card in 2016, he lost in the first round of each case.

In addition, the tasks increased due to the injuries. It was not until 2017, he slowly struggled to advance in the tennis world ranking with victories in small tournaments ITF. In 2018, as a qualifier in Rabat, he was able to win again in the main draw of a tournament on the WTA after more than three years.

However, she had to finish their first match of the quarterfinals of the WTA Tour against Aleksandra Krunić time after losing the first set due to physical problems. In November, after winning five of seven three matches, she won her biggest title to date at the tournament ITF of the $60,000 category in Valencia.

The 2019 Australian Open, Badosa qualified for the main round of a tournament of the Grand Slam for the first time but lost to Australian wild card Kimberly Birrell in two sets. Also, at Wimbledon and the us Open, but there is as a lucky loser, he managed to jump in the main draw, but not in the first round of each case.

Paula Badosa Gibert and the WTA

His best result on the WTA Tour came in the semi-finals at Palermo, where she lost to Kiki Bertens. In addition, Spain's Paula Badosa Gibert continued to have success on the ITF tour. However, she only managed to win a title in five final appearances.

However, he was able to finish the WTA season for the first time among the one hundred bests in the world and therefore qualify for the main attraction of the Australian Open 2020. There, after a major success against Johanna Larsson, was entered in the second round of a Grand Slam for the first time in his career, in which he was beaten by Petra Kvitová.

At the end of the season, came in 70th place in the world ranking WTA.

After good performances in Charleston, where she recorded a semi-final entry and a victory against the world number one Ashleigh Barty and in Madrid, where he also reached the semi-finals, he achieved a top fifty ranking in the world rankings for the first time in April 2021.

May 2021 y Paula Badosa Gibert

In May, he was able to win his first tournament of the WTA level of Belgrade. He reached the final without losing a set, where she defeated Ana Konjuh 6:2, 2:0 (injuries related to the task).

At the French Open, he achieved his best result in a Grand Slam tournament to reach the quarterfinals. His greatest success to date came on October 17, 2021, with his victory at the WTA 1000 tournament in Indian Wells.

He beat four top-20 players, Cori Gauff, Barbora Krejčíková, Angelique Kerber and Ons Jabeur, before beating Viktoryja Asaranka in the end 7:65, 2:6, 7:62 defeated. He was the first Spanish woman to win this tournament.