This Friday could be the day. Paula Badosa can reappear after four months of absence from the courts in the inconsequential match against Poland which closed the Spanish participation in the Billie Jean King Cup organized in Seville.

After being excluded from the duel against Canada, The Catalan hopes to add her first minutes on the track after a long absence caused by a back injury suffered during the Rome tournament.

In the city of Seville, Badosa took the opportunity to share his opinions on different current tennis topics, such as the farewell, currently partial, of Garbine Muguruza.

“Garbiñe makes me very sad because for me he was a reference. I loved the way she played and wanted to be like her. I really wish she was here with us because I think we can do anything with a team like that, but things are as they are,” she said in an interview with ‘El País ‘.

“I see that he is very happy and having fun. something that didn’t happen when she played. At the end of the day, she is a player who has achieved absolutely everything, the best Spanish player with Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Conchita Martínez, so she has earned the right to do what she wants,” he added.

And it seems Muguruza has no plans to return to the circuit in the near future, as she said in a statement to ‘Women’s Health’ magazine. “For now, I have no intentions. My plan right now is to sleep, rest, be with my loved ones, make up for lost time… I can’t see beyond what I do today, tomorrow and this week… Tennis has no place in my routine. I always pay attention to my classmates, from time to time I can play but not intensely but more for fun. It doesn’t occupy my mind, my day or my routines. “I’m definitely taking a real break and trying to stay away from the courts,” he explained.

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In this same interview, Badosa commented on the controversy surrounding the Catalan this put her in the eye of the hurricane. In case anyone doesn’t remember, Badosa gave an interview in which he was asked how many languages ​​he spoke. “Spanish, Catalan (well, Catalan is not a language but I count it) and English” was her response, words that hurt some people very much despite the clarification that the player herself made a few days later when she saw the wave of attacks she was receiving.

“The interviewer told me that Catalan does not count as a language and that I should express it that way. I am very sorry that the news was misinterpreted, because it is something that affects me and is false, so I apologize for this misinterpretation,” he said in an interview with Rac1.

This explanation did not help him much, since he continued to receive criticism that affected him greatly. “I went through such a difficult time that it took me a year to return home, and for me it was very hard.. I went through a very bad period, very close to those years when I had so many problems,” Badosa admitted in an interview published this Tuesday in ‘El País’.

“A lot of things have fallen on me and I think there is too much tension in Catalonia. This makes me a little sad. People are a bit radical and I think they are very sensitive about it, so I can understand it. I could make a mistake, but I’m human. I have always devoted myself to sport, so a detail like this may escape me; I’m realistic, I don’t know everything…” added that of Begur, who clearly expressed his feelings towards Catalan and Catalonia.

“I was born in the United States, my whole family is Catalan and I represent Spain. So mentally I feel like a citizen of the world. I like to know cultures and countries, and I am very open because I was raised like that. When I play for Spain I get excited and it gives me goosebumps, I like to play for my people, and my people are Spain, but Catalonia too. At home I speak Catalan and my family is Catalan, I grew up there, my last names come from there… And when I think of the concept of home, it’s Begur; In the end, I have a mix and even though I am a citizen of the world, my heart will always be in Girona. Ah! And I speak Catalan!”, explained the former Indian Wells champion.