Jasmine Paolini celebrates her first career victory at Wimbledon. In her magical 2024 the Tuscan finally manages to remove the zero from the successes at the Championships, beating the Spanish Sara Sorribes Tormo in two setsnumber 55 in the world ranking, with a score of 7-5 6-3 after one hour and thirty-seven minutes of play. In the next round, the Italian will face the Belgian Greet Minnen, who won in her debut against the British Watson.
A match peppered with too many unforced errors by the Tuscan (thirty-six). Instead, the winners of the number seven in the world were thirty-three compared to the twelve of the Spanish. Paolini obtained 69% of the points with the first, while she suffered too much with the second (39%).
Uphill start to the match for Paolini, who immediately gives up her service at the start in a first game studded with too many errors by the Italian. Jasmine’s reaction, however, comes in the fourth game with the Italian getting a counter break point and exploits it immediately. In the eighth game Paolini gets two break points and on the second Sorribes Tormo shoots his backhand badly. It seems like a closed set and instead the world number seven has a sudden missed pass, granting the sudden counterbreak to the Spaniard. In the eleventh game a lucky ribbon helps Jasmine to save a delicate break point and then in the next game she closes on the second set point with the volley making it 7-5.
At the start of the second set Paolini immediately found himself down 0-40, but managed to come out with three winning shots, including an excellent break point on the third break point. Having escaped the danger, the Tuscan breaks serve from the Spanish in the second and fourth games, flying to 4-0. It seems over and instead Paolini completely loses his game and Sorribes Tormo thanks, with the Spanish player recovering both breaks of disadvantage, exploiting an infinite series of Tuscan errors. The twists and turns are not over, because Paolini suddenly finds himself and goes to 0-40, going back ahead by a break. Tuscany closes 6-3 and can finally celebrate his first success on the London grass.
