Italy will play on Saturday 8 June two of the three Slam finals in which it has managed to qualify with great merit. The first, rather awaited, will see the Tuscan Jasmine Paolini as the protagonist against the world number one Iga Swiatek, already winner at Roland Garros in 2020, 2022 and 2023.
It will be up to the Italian to try to interrupt the Pole’s dominance of consecutive victories in Paris: a very complicated undertaking for the 28-year-old player, who has demonstrated over the course of the two weeks that she is a great fighter, regardless of who the opponent is. on the other side of the network.
From 3pm the two will battle in front of the Philippe-Chatrier audience. The precedents leave practically no escape for the native of Castelnuovo di Garfagnana: in the Czech Republic, in an ITF match in 2018, she lost 6-2, 6-1, while in the US Open match (2022 edition) the Italian won again only three games, surrendering 6-3, 6-0.
It will be the first match on clay, with rather high stakes at stake: the French Slam trophy. Subsequently, after the awards ceremony, Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori will take to the court with the aim of bringing home the title in the men’s doubles.
A chance that this time the two Italians will try to exploit after the missed one (again this year) at the Australian Open: the duo will face the Salvadoran Marcelo Arevalo and the Croatian Mate Pavic (ninth seed in the main draw).
The Bolognese and Turin players, new top 10 in the ATP ranking from Monday, will try to repeat the feat achieved 65 years ago by Nicola Pietrangeli and Orlando Sirola. From 1959 onwards, no other all-Italian couple has ever been able to go all the way to the Parisian competition.
