Paula Badosa celebrated her second-round victory at the French Open on Thursday with one of her biggest champions.
Shortly after defeating Yulia Putintseva in three sets, 4-6, 6-1, 7-5, the 26-year-old Spaniard was seen holding hands with on-again boyfriend Stefanos Tsitsipas at Roland Garros, as seen in a video posted to the tournament’s X page.
In the clip, the couple can be seen descending a staircase together before Badosa playfully places her palm over the camera’s lens.
The sighting comes just days after Tsitsipas, the world No. 9, confirmed he and Badosa got back together.
Badosa, who was first linked to Tsitsipas, 25, last summer, revealed in early May they had decided to “amicably part ways.”
“It was hard for us being apart and I was going through some hard times too. I would say that I didn’t manage it very well either, because I was feeling the pressure of the tour, of my work. It seemed like a mountain to combine these two, and I made the decision to take a break,” Tsitsipas recently said of the reunion, according to Sports DNA.
“After two or three weeks, I realized that she is a person who has supported me a lot, and when she tried to talk to me about meeting, I felt how intense the love we have for each other is. I realized that this relationship I have with Paula is completely different from any other relationship I have had in the past, I feel that she is my person and we understand each other.”
Badosa, now set to compete in mixed doubles with Tsitsipas, told the media ahead of the tournament that the pair intend to keep their romance more private moving forward.
“I mean, it’s already our private life. I think one of the things that I didn’t like or we didn’t like is that it was very public, so now we want to keep things a little bit more on our own. I still understand that it’s not going to be easy because we are two public people, public person, and people will ask, but we want to keep it more for ourselves because it’s never easy to combine our careers to that,” Badosa said, per Tennis.com.
She will face the second-ranked Aryna Sabalenka in the third round on Saturday.
As for Tsitipas, he defeated Zhang Zhizhen in a third-round match Friday, 6-3, 6-3, 6-1.
