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2025 Italian Open: Jasmine Paolini - a history-maker

The 2025 season

Jasmine’s 2025 season once again began on the other side of the world, with tournaments in Sydney, Perth and Melbourne, albeit without great success. Paolini’s form returned during subsequent tournaments in the Middle East. In Doha, together with Sara Errani, she won her third WTA title in the doubles, climbing into the top 10 in the doubles rankings, too.

Jasmine’s purple patch continued in March on the hard courts of Miami, where, after a thrilling series of results, she reached her first semi-final of the year in the singles, before finally falling to the world number 1, confirming her excellent form. After starting the clay season in the Stuttgart Open with a semi-final in the singles and quarter-final in the doubles, Jasmine failed to hit the same heights in Spain, at the Madrid Open.

Yet redemption did not take long and Jasmine was soon to rewrite history: on her ‘home’ clay at Foro Italico in Rome, Jasmine was victorious in the singles, ending an Italian drought which had lasted for forty years. And she was not done there. Jasmine and Sara would go on to claim the doubles title, too. A short time later, in the same arena where they took Olympic gold in Paris, Paolini and Errani won the doubles title at Roland-Garros, avenging their defeat in 2024 by defeating the Serbian/Kazakh pair 6-4, 2-6, 6-1.

This victory saw Jasmine rise to 6th in the world doubles rankings.

The 2024 season

In February 2024, she triumphed in Dubai, becoming the third Italian in history to win a WTA 1000 event. A few months later, on the famous clay of  Roland Garros, she reached the final of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time, where the world number 1, Iga Swiatek, proved too strong. This performance was still enough to break into the top 10 of the WTA rankings, reaching 7th position. 

In doubles too, Jasmine Paolini has continued to enjoy success, with five WTA titles so far in her career, three of which were secured in 2024 with her usual partner Sara Errani: first in Linz (WTA 500), then at the Internazionali d’Italia in Rome (WTA 1000) and finally in Beijing at the China Open (WTA 1000). 
With this latest triumph, after competing for an hour and twenty nine minutes and with a clear 6-4 6-4 win, the reigning Olympic champions are celebrating, in the best possible way, their pass onto the Finals in Riyad, already mathematically obtained thanks to qualifying for the last part of the Chinese tournament.
The Paris clay has also been a highlight of the Italian couple’s season. First the defeat at Roland Garros, although it was in Jasmine’s first final in a Grand Slam doubles tournament, then, in August, the award of an historic gold medal at the Paris Olympics.

The highlight of Jasmine's career to date has been Wimbledon 2024, where she became the first Italian tennis player in history to reach the final. At the 2024 WTA Finals in Riyadh, the Italian tennis player was ranked number 4 in the world: a historic result for Italian tennis, equalling that obtained by Francesca Schiavone in 2011, achieved at the peak of a season that began with the 28-year-old from Tuscany ranking 30 in the WTA world ranking.

In November 2024, Jasmine Paolini headed Italy to win the Billie Jean King Cup, the most prestigious team tournament in women's tennis. In the final played in Malaga, Paolini thrashed Rebecca Sramkova 6-2, 6-1, securing Italy's fifth title in the tournament. Her determination and talent inspired the entire team, bringing Italy back on the women's tennis world stage after more than a decade.

Jasmine’s dream 2024 was also recognised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) who awarded her, alongside her doubles partner, Sara Errani, the title of World Champions in the women’s doubles category. 

The first ever Olympic tennis gold for Italy at the Paris 2024 Games, two WTA 1000 titles, a WTA 500 trophy, victory in the final at Roland-Garros (the first doubles Slam victory for Jasmine) and the historic Italian triumph in the Billie Jean King Cup were the key elements in securing this prestigious award.

The 2023 season

In 2023, Jasmine broke into the top 30 of the WTA rankings for the first time, thanks to the two finals she reached in the WTA 250 in Palermo and Monastir (Tunisia), where she and Sara Errani were victorious in the doubles tournament. 

In addition to her individual successes, she also represented Italy in the Billie Jean King Cup, where she and her teammates reached a historic final, the first in 10 years, before finally being defeated by Canada. 

Jasmine Paolini: background and story

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