Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk revealed Paula Badosa approached her in Indian Wells to ask how she was doing after the Russian invasion of Ukraine started. Kostyuk was grateful to Badosa for checking on her and asked the new world No.2 if she was interested in playing doubles with her. Badosa apparently told her she “does not play doubles at all” but then teamed up with Aryna Sabalenka in Miami and Stuttgart. That was when Kostyuk decided she would never again ask Badosa to be doubles partners. “In early March, when we arrived in Indian Wells, it was the first time Paula …