The 28 year old Italian challenges the Polish number 1 in the final round of Roland Garros, while in the doubles Bolelli/Vavassori will fight for the title against Arevalo/Pavic.
4.25pm – Swiatek closes with a winning serve and wins his fourth Roland Garros: 6-2 6-1.
4.17pm – Paolini is saved from the bagel, closing on 40-30 with a nice forehand down the line.
4.11pm – At 40-30 an excellent second kick allows Swiatek to take the lead 5-0.
4.06pm – Another winning return on the second gives Swiatek the break at 30-40. BREAK 4-0.
4.02pm – The third game was no problem for the Pole, won to zero: 3-0
4:00 pm – Jasmine concedes a break point at 30-40, saves it with a first but with a shot into the net she gives the Pole another chance, then misses her forehand. BREAK 6-2-2-0.
3.54pm – First game of the second set Swiatek at 15 at serve. 6-2 1-0.
3.47pm – Paolini loses the serve to zero, with Swiatek pushing and putting her under pressure. FIRST SET Swiatek 6-2
3.44pm – Swiatek wins the game at 15 and closes with a forehand volley after a long throw: 5-2
3.40pm – At 30-30 Paolini hits the net, then gives away the game with a double fault. BREAK 4-2
3.35pm – Very tough exchanges between the two tennis players, but Swiatek is a machine and closes at 40-15 with an error from Jasmine: 3-2.
3.30pm – Swiatek reacts and starts bombing from the back, flies 0-40 and then evens the score. BREAK 2-2.
3.28pm – The Pole makes a mistake and Paolini takes 0-30, then 15-40 with two break points and after a forehand outside from Swiatek she breaks serve: BREAK 1-2.
3.19pm – Good and aggressive Paolini, who however comes back from 40-15 by granting a break point to her opponent but manages to save it and close the game: 1-1.
3.16pm – He immediately begins to push Swiatek, but Paolini responds. The Pole closes at 40-30 with an ace: 1-0.
3.13pm – The match begins with Swiatek at bat
3.07pm – Iga Swiatek won the draw and chose to serve.
3.05pm – The two tennis players enter the court, first is Jasmine Paolini, followed by Iga Swiatek.
2.50pm – Everything is ready on the Philippe Chatrier where the tennis players have yet to make their entrance on the court. Paolini, who won the 1000 WTA in Dubai this season and the doubles title with Errani at the Italian Internationals, is looking for an impossible feat against the Pole who hasn’t lost on this surface in 14 matches after the titles in Madrid and Rome , and reached 20 consecutive victories at Roland Garros after defeating Coco Gauff. Iga Swiatek has won the tournament in 2020, 2022, 2023. She is chasing her third in a row and fourth overall. For Jasmine Paolini it is the first final in a Slam.
2.00pm – Paolini will try to repeat Francesca Schiavone’s feat in Paris in 2010. At 28 years old she is the fifth Italian in the Open Era to enter the top 10 after Schiavone (2011), Errani (2013), Pennetta (2015) and Vinci ( 2016).
1:00 pm – There is only one previous Slam between Swiatek and Paolini, at the 2022 US Open, where the Pole clearly won in two sets with a score of 6-3 6-0. Then there is another precedent in Prague in 2018, this time on clay, where the Italian lost 6-2 6-1.
10:00 – At 4.30 pm the Italian pair Bolelli/Vavassori will compete in the final of the men’s doubles Arevalo/Pavic.
07:55 – Today could be a historic day for Italian tennis. In fact, in the WTA final at Roland Garros, Jasmine Paolini faces world number 1 Iga Swiatek. The meeting will start at 3pm.
