Stefanos Tsitsipas’s mum reveals she took Paula Badosa’s facet when the facility couple break up earlier this yr… earlier than the pair reconciled three weeks later

Stefanos Tsitsipas’s mum has admitted she was on Paula Badosa’s facet when the couple briefly broke up earlier this yr.

Tsitsipas and Badosa, each 26, first received collectively in Could 2023, however the latter introduced on Instagram they’d gone their separate methods in Could 2024.

The tennis energy couple reconciled three weeks later, and Tsitsipas’s mum, Julia Apostoli, has hinted that she performed an element in them getting again collectively.

‘Stefanos is joyful, that is crucial factor,’ she instructed Greek speak present To Proino. ‘If he is joyful, I am joyful too.’

‘There was a troublesome time after they broke up, however now they’re in love. I used to be on Paula’s facet, we talked and that is why they discovered one another once more.’ 

The couple, who’ve been branded ‘Tsitsidosa’, have gone from energy to energy since getting their relationship again on monitor, and took residence a £250,000 prize after profitable a blended doubles exhibition occasion in New York final month. 

However each gamers have had their very own particular person struggles in current instances, with Badosa admitting she was instructed to cease taking part in tennis by docs final yr after struggling quite a few harm setbacks.

She has since battled again and was in a position to make the quarter-finals of the US Open this month earlier than being knocked out by residence favorite Emma Navarro.

In the meantime, Tsitsipas remains to be making an attempt to achieve his full potential as he continues his bid for a primary grand slam after shedding French Open and Australian Open finals in 2021 and 2023 respectively. 

He fired his personal dad as his coach this summer season after claiming ‘he isn’t very good or good’, and his mum has revealed the choice was a very long time coming, however insisted it has not affected their private relationship.

‘He’s knowledgeable and though he loves his father very a lot, he understands that he has to search out one other coach,’ Apostoli defined.

‘Since 2020 when he misplaced within the US Open, we mentioned with Apostolos that Stefanos wants to vary his coach. However 4 years handed and Stefanos was bringing good outcomes.

‘In fact, I believe that Apostolos and Stefanos didn’t have such a superb relationship since then. They’d conflicts. And that is why Stefanos made the choice to vary coaches. We do not see it as a tragedy. We’re all collectively and we’re a detailed household.’