Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini they gain the pass for the third round of the Roland Garros 2024 women’s doubles tennis tournament: the blue ones, accredited witheleventh seed, they beat the resistance of the Polish Magda Linette and the American Bernarda Pera with the score of 6-4 7-6 (7) one hour and 49 minutes of play.
The blue ones, already at the eighthsthey will have to wait to know the name of their next opponents and they won’t be back on the field tomorrow: the segment of the scoreboard that will designate the Italians’ rivals has not yet seen the first round completed.
A fact is what concerns the Olympic singles ranking: Sara Errani will not be able to travel to Bari, where she will play instead Martina Trevisan, who will have to reach the semi-final in Puglia to overtake Errani and become number 4 in Italythus hoping for a reallocation for the Games.
Returning to today’s newsIn the first set we move forward in fits and starts: the Italians start better and go up 2-0, but then let themselves be caught at 2-2. New extension for the Italians, who take the lead at 4-2, but again Linette and Pera find the connection at 4-4. Another break from Errani and Paolini, who win eight of the last nine points played and close on the first set point at 6-4 in 39 minutes.
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The road for the Italians is more tortuous in the second game: break by Linette and Pera in the second game and immediate counterbreak by the Italian pair, but in the fourth game the Polish and the American get a new break, then confirmed for the 4-1 not heavy.
The Italians are shaken, finding the new counterbreak to the advantages in the seventh game and then making the tie at 4-4. The two Italians serve to stay in the set once each and drag the match to a tiebreak. Linette and Pera start strong and go up 3-0, give back a minibreak lead, but then re-establish the distance at 4-1.
Errani and Paolini react once again, scoring four points and taking the lead at 5-4. Thus begins a point-to-point fight with Linette and Pera finding parity and the Italian pair obtaining match point: the third opportunity is the good one for Errani and Paolini, who close thanks to a double fault at 9-7 after 70 minutes of play.
The statistics they reward the blues, who win 88 points against 78 of the opponents, making the difference with the first serve, fielded 64 times out of 80 (80%), with the point obtained on 39 occasions (61%), while Pera and Linette stop at 66% of first serves ( 57/86), finding the point only in 31 circumstances (54%). Overall Errani and Paolini win 56% of the points (45/80) on serve and 50% (43/86) on returns.
