Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini they land in semi-final on the board of women’s doubles of the Miami Open 2024 tennis: the Italian pair in the quarterfinals beat the Russian duo made up of Ekaterina Alexandrova and Irina Khromacheva with a double 6-2 matured in one hour and two minutes of game. Friday in the penultimate act the Italians will face the Americans Sofia Kenin and Bethanie Mattek-Sands.
In the first set the blues hold serve at the start of the decisive point and then hit the break at fifteen which makes it 2-0. The Russians’ counterbreak is immediate and reaches zero, but the Italians extend further to the decisive point of the fourth game and confirm the break by keeping the serve at fifteen and flying to 4-1. Errani and Paolini confirm the lead again and take the lead at 5-2, then in the eighth game a new break at fifteen gives them the half at 6-2 after 27 minutes of game.
In the second game the balance lasts until 2-2, even if the Russians save themselves at the deciding point in the second game, while both Italians keep the serve at fifteen. The music changes in the sixth game when the Italian pair breaks at fifteen and goes up 4-2, then confirming the break to zero. In the eighth game Errani and Paolini go to 15-40 in response and to the decisive point they still close at 6-2 after 35 minutes.
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The statistics indicate how the blue pair dominates the match, winning 55 points against the Russians’ 33, converting 5 of the 9 break points available to them and giving up the serve only on one of the two occasions granted to their opponents. Errani and Paolini do better both in terms of first field placements, 80%-65%, and in terms of yield, both with the first, 72% against 42%, and with the second, 63% against 47%.
