Stefanos Tsitsipas 'couldn't be prouder' of Paula Badosa for winning 2024 WTA Comeback Player of the Year

This year, Paula Badosa went through it all.

Clawing her way back from a career-threatening back injury, she made two second-week efforts at Grand Slams, including a quarterfinal in New York, as well as two semifinals WTA 1000s-level events. She even earned her first title in more than two years on the hard courts of Washington, D.C. in August. Thanks to these highlights, Badosa persevered back into the Top 15 for the first time in two years, and earned the WTA's 2024 Comeback Player of the Year honor.

It was a season that impressed not only tennis fans, but Badosa's on-again, off-again beau, Stefanos Tsitsipas.

Recovering from injury wasn’t the only challenge that the Spaniard faced in the last 12 months, as the couple's relationship underwent its own ups-and-downs this year. In the spring, news spread of their break-up after nearly a year together ... if for only a few weeks, as it was then announced they were in fact back on.

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"She is my person," Tsitsipas said betore Roland Garros.

And now, the two are squarely on the up. Seemingly stronger than ever, they shared off-season vacation photos from Iceland, and Tsitsipas penned a hearfelt social media message to his girlfriend in the aftermath of her postseason honor.

"My dear Paula, you’ve worked so hard and shown such resilience to re-establish yourself as a top player this year, and I couldn’t be prouder of you," he wrote this week on X, formerly Twitter.

“As someone once famously said, ‘Spanish never die,’” Tsitsipas added.

The two finished the year as the ATP's world No. 11 and WTA's No. 12, side-by-side both in rankings and in our hearts.