Paula Badosa grumbles through 16 words in awkward Wimbledon interview – after retiring hurt
Is this Wimbledon’s most awkward press conference? Paula Badosa is questioned TWICE about ‘winning’ by an ignorant reporter… just after she lost and retired from mixed doubles with boyfriend Stefanos Tsitsipas
- Paula Badosa is out of Wimbledon after an injured match against Marta Kostyuk
- She followed the match with a bizarre interview in which she only said 16 words
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Paula Badosa gave a contender on Friday for the most awkward post-match interview of all time after pulling out of her second-round match at Wimbledon against Marta Kostyuk.
The 25-year-old was forced out of the second round by an injury during the second set and was then bizarrely told ‘Congratulations on your win’ by a confused interviewer.
She replied ‘I lost’, but the interviewer was undeterred and continued with two questions about missing games due to injury. Both got one-word answers.
Badosa once again clarified that she hadn’t won, before being questioned about her fitness and replying, “I just retired, so yeah, I wish I could be better.”
It was a disappointing end to Wimbledon for the Spaniard, who had been battling a back problem for the past few months and had raced to be fit in time for Wimbledon.
Spanish star Paula Badosa gave a bizarre post-game interview on Friday (above)
Badosa is out of Wimbledon after retiring in her second round match against Marta Kostyuk
She gave a bizarre post-game interview where she answered five questions in 16 words
But she looked uneasy on the court today before pulling out of the match after just over one set
Her last appearance on court was in May, where she reached the quarterfinals of the Inernazionali BNL D’Italia in Rome.
Badosa, who committed 20 unforced errors in the game, appeared to be uneasy on court 18.
She broke Kostyuk in their opening sessions on Friday but struggled to hold her serve and lost the first set 6-2 before going down 1-0 in the second.
Badosa was slated to team up with her friend Tsitsipas in the mixed doubles event where the pair would face Jessica Pegula and Austin Krajicek in the opening round, but will now withdraw from that as well.
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She was caught on Center Court side-eyeing the coach and father of the Greek tennis player, Apostolos, during the titanic battle that resumes today.
The Spaniard glared at her boyfriend’s coach and seemed unimpressed with the 55-year-old.
Murray won the third set before play was abandoned at 11pm on Thursday night, putting him 2–1 ahead and one set shy of a third-round place.
Badosa already made headlines this week with a noticeably more vocal performance in which she revealed during a press conference that she had a sex dream about her boyfriend.
“Yeah, well, I got injured in Australia. I watched his match, the final. Of course I was jet lagged because I was in Spain. I decided to watch that match,” she said.
‘Surprising, because I never dream about tennis players, but I dreamed about him that night, that we both won the Australian Open. Then it was like we had a very romantic moment, but I’m not going to explain.
“I’ll leave it at that,” she added with a laugh.
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Badosa was seen late last night watching boyfriend Stefanos Tsitsipas in action against Andy Murray
She was also pictured giving his father and coach, Apostolos, the side eye during the match
Three-time Grand Slam champion Murray led 2-1 as the game stopped before the 11pm curfew