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Good morning friends of OA Sport and welcome to the Live broadcast of the 3rd round match of the WTA 1000 in Madrid between Jasmine Paolini and Caroline Garcia.
Big fight is expected between the two players, a fight that was a common factor in the last 3 precedents, those played after the explosion of the Tuscan player. The Frenchwoman leads 5 to 1, in fact, in the last 3 an inertia has always inclined towards one or the other. Both are comfortable on the fast clay of the Madrid tournament, and are equipped with an important seeding: 12 Paolini and 21 Garcia. With a victory today, Paolini would consolidate 12th place provisional in the WTA ranking, once again detaching the Brazilian Beatriz Haddad-Maia, who is hot on her heels with the Tuscan, 53 points behind, and is already in the round of 16. The top 10 (provisional) is about 500 points away and is occupied by the Latvian Jelena Ostapenko.
In the 1st round Jasmine defeated the Andorran WC Kasintseva 6-0 6-1, demonstrating great adaptability. The Frenchwoman, however, took only one bite of the Chinese Xinyu Wang. For the blue it is “mandatory” to increase the number of points here in Spain, to demonstrate that we have all what it takes to access the WTA Finals, a result that would be sensational. At the moment, the Italian champion from Dubai is 8th with a handful of points over Ostapenko, who has already qualified for the round of 16. We remember that the Italian would currently also be qualified for the women’s doubles Finals, with Sara Errani. Unfortunately, the two did not pass their 1st round against the Russians Zvonareva/Andreeva.
All that remains is to wish you a good continuation with the Live broadcast of the match between Paolini and Garcia, who will start as 4th at the Arantxa Sanchez Stadium after Griekspoor-Runes (from 11:00)Kasatkina-Pavlyuchenkova and Vondrousova-Andreeva.
