Tennis News: Paula Badosa, Marketa Vondrousova and Ons Jabeur

Paula Badosa might appear to have an easy life, but how can anyone truly judge whose life is smooth and simple and whose is not? Sure, she has made a good living playing professional tennis and she has a high-profile relationship with another player, but those are only surface items. Being good at tennis - enough to earn a good living - takes work. So do relationships.

The relationship in question for Badosa is with Greek tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas, of course. The two have been dating for a year with only one seemingly short break before they were reportedly back together at the French Open. The criticism of the couple is ridiculous because why should anyone else feel the right to critique others, especially if we do not know the inner workings of the relationship?

Badosa and Tsitsipas appear to have been criticized for their relationship taking their attention away from working hard as tennis players. Again, that is silly. But Badosa still felt the need to try to address the perceived criticism during a recent interview with La Vanguardia.

Paula Badosa smacks back and Marketa Vondrousova pulls out of the Olympics

Badosa said, "Personally, what bothers me the most is that people talk about other people’s realities. I can understand criticism of my professional side, of my tennis, of whether I lose or win, but linking that to something personal seems disrespectful to me...Sometimes, apart from separately, (Tsitsipas and I) also train together, so in the end we train as much or more than anyone else...what I think is that people don’t even know what they are judging."

Honestly, good for Paula Badosa to say anything. She is completely correct as well. People commenting generally on her relationship with Tsitsipas don't know what they are speaking about because they are not in the relationship.

In completely different news, and more discouraging, 2023 Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova will miss the Olympics due to a hand injury she appears to have suffered at 2024 Wimbledon when she lost in the first round. Vondrousova is not alone in being forced to withdraw from the Olympics.

Ons Jabeur previously said she could not represent her country of Tunisia at the Paris Olympics. Poland's Hubert Hurkacz also announced on Monday that he can't play in Paris. Others to pull out of the event are Badosa, Emma Raducanu, and Aryna Sabalenka.

Olympic tennis will be held at the same venue as the French Open, which means players will be doing their work on clay. The heavy favorites at the Olympics will be 2024 French Open champs Iga Swiatek and Carlos Alcaraz. Vondrousova was the runner-up on the women's side at the Tokyo Games in 2021.

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