WATCH: A reporter mistakenly congratulated Paula Badosa for winning her second-round match after she was, in fact, forced to retire from it due to injury.

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Talk about adding insult to injury. After retiring from her second-round match against Marta Kostyuk at Wimbledon due to a lingering back injury, Paula Badosa's Friday went from bad to worse thanks to an awkward interaction in her post-match press conference.

Forced to stop her match against Kostyuk on Court 18 when trailing 6-2, 1-0, the Spaniard quickly entered the media room ... only to be mistakenly congratulated for winning by the first reporter to ask her a question. After being corrected by Badosa, it quickly became apparent that the fact didn't sink in for the questioner, until he was again reminded of it by the moderator later in the exchange.

Q. Congrats for your win.

PAULA BADOSA: I lost.

Q. You missed some matches because of injury.

PAULA BADOSA: Yes.

Q. Could you please tell us about your fitness and confidence level, please.

PAULA BADOSA: For your information, I just lost. I didn't win. So, yeah.

THE MODERATOR: She didn't win.

Q. Not win?

PAULA BADOSA: No.

It wasn't the first time that a journalist has gone viral at a Gand Slam for mistakenly congratulating a defeated player in the press room.

In 2014, a reporter at Roland Garros congratulated Frenchman Nicolas Mahut for winning a first-round match against Mikhail Kukushkin—he had lost in four sets—and then further drew Mahut's ire after admitting they didn't watch the match, and the 2017 US Open, Naomi Osaka's third-round press conference kicked off with the following inquiry: "Stupid question: Why did you win today?"

"I didn't win," Osaka was forced to reply, having lost to Kaia Kanepi, 6-3, 2-6, 7-5.

Badosa had missed more than a month of action, including Roland Garros, due to a stress fracture in her back before returning victorious at the All England Club with a first-round win over American Alison Riske-Amritraj.

Badosa trailed Kostyuk 6-2, 1-0 when she retired.

Badosa trailed Kostyuk 6-2, 1-0 when she retired.

Pivoting quickly to other questions, she also told reporters that 'Tsitsidosa' won't be making their eagerly-awaited debut in mixed doubles: The couple, which has taken social media by storm in the early weeks of their off-court romance, had been drawn to face top-seeded Americans Austin Krajicek and Jessica Pegula in the first round.

"I won't be able [to play]," she said. "The injury is the same as I have been struggling the past weeks. It's the stress fracture.

"I tried my best to try to play here, but yesterday when I woke up I already, after my first-round match, felt it again. It's a little bit worse. So I will need a few days off and talk to my team and see what I do in the next days and the next weeks."