Jasmine Paolini, the fairytale continues: against Iga Swiatek in the French Open final

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Jasmine Paolini reaches the Roland Garros final, the first Grand Slam of her career! A surprising result for the girl from Marche, who dominated her match against 17-year-old Mira Andreeva, but who, in her nerves, did everything she could do wrong. The two sets ended 6-3 and 6-1: after a slightly more competitive first set, the Italian carefully controlled the match, while the Russian coached by Conchita Martinez could not hold back the tears.

The abnormal match did not affect the value of Jasmine, solid from the baseline, good at controlling the most delicate moments of the first set, not affected by the mentality of the opponent. The Parisian has followed up the brilliant results of this year with her first Masters 1000 victory in the Masters 1000 final in Dubai against Anna Kalinskaya and the double with Sara Errani at the Rome International (she also played in the Roland Garros semi-final against the Kostyuk-Russ combination).

Now the situation is difficult, there is the world number one Iga Swiatek, granite, all the material … but the dream is legitimate. As Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori, who also reached the men’s doubles final after winning in three sets against Bopanna and Ebden, were defeated for the second time in a month (the last time was at the Italian Forum). Now in their way is the winning combination between Arevalo-Pavic and Granollers-Zeballos (No. 1 seeds).

«It was a difficult match – commented the Italian, who lost to Andreeva in Madrid – I was nervous in the first set, a month ago she beat me and today I said to myself “you have to do better”, I even knew she was a little better, ball after ball I relaxed. I’m happy to have won. Dreams are important and in recent years I have done them … I don’t know what else to say “, she concluded excitedly. The 28-year-old, coached by Renzo Furlan, who starts Monday with world number seven, is the third Italian to reach the final of Roland Garros after Sara Errani (defeated by Maria Sharapova in 2012) and Francesca Schiavone (against Roland Garros in 2010). Samantha Stosur was a finalist in 2011 (when she lost to Li Na).