Virtually unknown in the middle of last season, the Italian tennis player Jasmine Paolini (15th) exhibited a surprising performance in the last period, which became even more acute in Roland Garros when taking a ticket to the decisive meeting in individual and double to join a select group during the Open Era.
After beating the young Russian Mirra Andreeva (38th) 6-3 and 6-1 this Thursday in singles, the right-handed fighter, 28 years old and 163 centimeters tall, repeated the result this Friday in pairs, along with her experienced compatriot Sara Errani (28th), recovering from a adverse onset to defeat the Romanian 1-6, 6-4 and 6-1 Elena-Gabriela Ruse (140th) and the Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk (80th) at the Simonne-Mathieu stadium.
Consequently, the one born in Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, who was recently crowned in Rome with the former world number 1, will emulate the Australians Margaret Court (1969 and 1973), Helen Gourlay (1969) and Wendy Turnbull (1979), to the Americans Billie Jean King (1972), Chris Evert (1974 and 1975), Martina Navratilova (1975, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986 and 1987) and Coco Gauff (2022), Russian style Olga Mozorova (1974), Romanian style Virginia Ruzici (1978), Slovenian style Mima Jausovec (1978), German-style Steffi Graf (1989), Spanish-style Arantxa Sánchez Vicario (1995), Swiss style Martina Hingis (1999), French-style Mary Pierce (2000), Belgian style Kim Clijsters (2003), to his mentioned countryman (2012), oh the Czechs Lucie Safarova (2015) and Barbora Krecjikova (2021), who had also reached both finals on the French clay.
In this way, Paolini will want to put the cherry on top of the dessert in the grand slam Parisian, facing the talented Pole Iga Swiatek (1st) in the head to head and the winners of the duel between Desirae Krawczyk / Caroline Dolehide and Katerina Siniakova / Coco Gauff in duos.
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