Paula Badosa


Paula Badosa Gibert is a Spanish tennis player. She won the 2015 French Open girls' singles title by defeating Anna Kalinskaya in the final.
On 23 September 2019, Badosa reached her best singles ranking of world No. 86. On 29 July 2019, she peaked at No. 475 in the doubles rankings.
She was given a wild card into the main draw of the 2015 Miami Open and reached the third round, defeating Petra Cetkovská and Zheng Saisai before falling to Karolína Plíšková.

Biography

Early years

Paula Badosa was born in Manhattan to Mireia Gibert and Josep Badosa.
She started playing tennis at the age of seven.

Career

She won the girls' singles title at the 2015 French Open.
She played her first qualifying competition on the WTA Tour in 2013, at Palermo.

Performance timelines

Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Fed Cup and Olympic Games are included in Win–Loss records.

Singles

Current through the suspension of the 2020 WTA Tour.

Junior Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 15 (7 titles, 8 runner–ups)

ResultW–LDateTournamentTierSurfaceOpponentScore
Win1–0Nov 2013ITF Sant Jordi, Spain 10,000Hard Lucía Cervera Vázquez7–5, 6–0
Loss1–1Oct 2014ITF Ciudad Victoria, Mexico25,000Hard Diāna Marcinkēviča7–6, 3–6, 1–6
Win2–1Jul 2015ITF Denain, France25,000Clay Irina Ramialison7–5, 6–0
Loss2–2Apr 2016ITF Jackson, United States25,000Clay Grace Min6–1, 2–6, 4–6
Loss2–3May 2017ITF Caserta, Italy25,000Clay Claire Liu3–6, 3–6
Win3–3Aug 2017ITF El Espinar, Spain25,000Hard Ayla Aksu6–2, 6–4
Win4–3Feb 2018ITF Glasgow, Great Britain25,000Hard Maia Lumsden2–6, 6–1, 6–3
Win5–3May 2018ITF Les Franqueses del Valles, Spain25,000Hard Margarita Gasparyan6–4, 3–6, 6–2
Win6–3Sep 2018Valencia Open, Spain60,000+HClay Aliona Bolsova6–1, 4–6, 6–2
Loss6–4Oct 2018ITF Oslo, Norway25,000Clay Harriet Dart2–6, 0–1 ret.
Loss6–5Jan 2019Burnie International, Australia60,000Hard Belinda Woolcock6–7, 6–7
Loss6–6May 2019ITF Les Franqueses del Vallès, Spain60,000Hard Katy Dunne5–7, 3–6
Loss6–7Jun 2019Essen Open, Germany25,000Clay Tereza Martincová2–6, 6–7
Win7–7Oct 2019ITF Makinohara, Japan25,000Carpet Nagi Hanatani7–5, 6–1
Loss7–8Oct 2019ITF Hamamatsu, Japan25,000Carpet Eri Hozumi6–7, 5–4, ret.