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2-1 Break Andreeva. The Russian dusts off the line with a backhand return and comes back ahead by a break.
30-40 Andreeva break point. Once again the backhand coming out of serve betrays Paolini.
30-30 Service and backhand cross scored for Tuscany.
15-30 Another error after Paolini’s service, foul with the forehand.
15-15 Andreeva’s backhand response is long.
0-15 The backhand escapes from Jasmine’s service.
1-1 PAOLINI COUNTERBREAK. The Russian buries her backhand in defensive back. There’s a counterbreak!
40-AD Paolini counterbreak ball. Andreeva’s forehand exits the serve.
40-40 This winning forehand from the Italian tennis player is also perfect. Equality.
40-30 Excellent acceleration with Paolini’s inside-in forehand.
40-15 Deep forehand response from Tuscany which sends the opponent out of action.
40-0 Another mistake by the Italian, again with a backhand.
30-0 Jasmine’s cross-court backhand lands on the tape.
15-0 Paolini’s forehand response is long.
1-0 Break Andreeva. The Italian’s cross-court backhand takes off, giving up the serve.
30-40 Andreeva break point. Charged and deep forehand response from the seventeen year old.
30-30 The Russian runs straight down the line.
15-30 Jasmine’s crosscourt forehand fails.
15-15 Winning response with Andreeva’s backhand down the line.
15-0 Immediately a great backhand along the winning line of Tuscany.
FIRST WEEK
3.35pm Pre-match warm-up underway. In just over three minutes the match begins with the Italian serving.
3.33pm Here we are. Welcomed by the audience’s applause, Jasmine Paolini and Mirra Andreeva enter the field!
3.29pm The winner of the match will find the American Danielle Collins and the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka in the quarter-finals.
3.25pm What we are going to comment on will be the first direct comparison between the Italian and the fresh seventeen-year-old Russian.
3.21pm At the end of two hard-fought sets, the Czech Lehecka advances in the men’s tournament. In just under 15 minutes, Jasmine Paolini and the Russian Mirra Andreeva will enter the field.
1.57pm The first set between Lehecka and Monteiro ends, with the Czech winning 6-4. At the end of this match there will be room for Paolini-Andreeva. See you later!
13:01 Friends of OA Sport welcome back in the LIVE LIVE written by Paolini-Andreeva. Today’s opening match has just ended at Stadium 3, with the Brazilian Haddad Maia surprisingly beating the Greek Sakkari in two sets. Program that now continues with the men’s challenge between Lehecka and Monteiro, then it will be the turn of the Italian number one!
Good morning and welcome to LIVE LIVE text of the round of 16 match of the WTA 1000 tournament in Madrid between Jasmine Paolini and the Russian Mirra Andreeva. First direct comparison between the two players, with the winner of the match finding the American Danielle Collins and the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka in the quarter-finals.
Paolini, a twenty-eight year old from Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, comes to this event after having first overtaken the Andorran Jimenez Kasintseva, then the French Garcia. Winner of the Dubai tournament, her first 1000 in her career, the Italian then reached the round of 16 at Indian Wells, before diving into the European clay season where she has already reached the quarter-finals in Stuttgart .
For her part, Andreeva, who blows out 17 candles today, defeated the American Townsend and the Czechs Noskova and Vondrousova in sequence in Madrid. A rising star of Russian tennis, in this first phase of 2024 he made the quarter-finals in Brisbane and Rouen, reaching the round of 16 at the Australian Open.
The round of 16 match between Jasmine Paolini and Mirra Andreeva will be the third match on Stadium 3 starting at 11.00 after Haddad Maia-Sakkari and Lehecka-Monteiro. It will be possible to follow the match live on TV on Sky Sport, and in streaming on Sky GO and NOW. OA Sport will offer you LIVE LIVE written point by point of the event. Have fun and good tennis everyone!
