WTA Beijing: Aryna Sabalenka is too much for Jasmine Paolini

WTA Beijing: Aryna Sabalenka è too much for Jasmine Paolini

The last Italian tennis player remaining in the competition at the WTA 1000 in Beijing also exits the stage. In fact, in the match valid for the round of 16, Jasmine Paolini è surrendered in two sets to world number one Aryna Sabalenka, who è imposed herself with the score of 6-4 7-6 after one hour and thirty-seven minutes of play.

In the first set è the Tuscan tennis player the first to have break ball but the Russian manages to save herself, and at the first useful chance she snatches the service from Paolini, who on 4-5 30-40 commits a bloody double fault with which she delivers the first partial to the world number one.

In the second set Sabalenka immediately ran away 3-1, but here came Paolini’s reaction, stringing together four consecutive games and taking a 5-3 lead. The counter-reaction of the number one seeded seed è immediate, bringing the match back to even. It thus comes to the tie-break where the Russian starts strong and flies to 5-1. Paolini attempted a comeback, but Sabalenka closed 7-4.

Jasmine thus has to leave the Chinese tournament, while Sabalenka advances to the quarterfinals where she will face the fifth seed, Elena Rybakina.