Simone Biles draws opinions from every corner of the sports world. This time it was Paula Badosa, the tennis superstar who’s navigating personal struggles amid swirling wedding rumors, who couldn’t help but express her admiration for gymnastics’ revolutionary force during a recent gala event, and well what she had to say?
The Laureus World Sports Awards, held in Madrid, wasn’t just another evening of glitter and gowns for Badosa. The night had meaning. It had memory. Captured on video by TENNIS.com on X, Paula opened up with a simple smile. “It was our first time attending a gala together, so it was really fun.” She was standing next to boyfriend Stefanos Tsitsipas, but the moment she remembers most? Had nothing to do with tennis. “And also that gala in particular, because it was so inspiring and so many great athletes.”
And then came the reveal, the one she had been waiting for all night. “For me, myself, I was really looking forward to see… and I saw at the end… Simone Biles.” Biles who stepped to the top of the Olympic podium three times in Paris last summer, on her fourth Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year trophy.
Badosa didn’t sugarcoat. Just an admiration from one athlete to another. Someone who knows what it means to fall, and fight, and get up again. “She’s an inspiration for me and for like all she did in her career.” And then—perhaps the most powerful sentence of all: “She changed her sport. And that’s very admiring
“She changed her sport and that’s very admiring.”
Paula Badosa talks about meeting Simone Biles at the 2025 Laureus World Sports Awards pic.twitter.com/ixFNuABREn
— TENNIS (@Tennis) April 23, 2025
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