Roland Garros, Jasmine Paolini in the round of 16, beat Bianca Andreescu

Roland Garros, Jasmine Paolini in the round of 16, beat Bianca Andreescu

After succeeding at the Australian Open for the first time in her career at a Slam, Jasmine Paolini also qualified for the round of 16 at Roland Garros.

The 28-year-old from Bagni di Lucca, number 15 in the world, beat with the score of 6-1 3-6 6-0 the Canadian Bianca Andreescu, currently number 228 but who in 2019 won the 1000 in Indian Wells and Toronto and even the US Open hoisting herself to number 4 in the ranking, only to end up in an endless tunnel of physical problems and this tournament è was for her that of’yet another comeback after nine months of stop.

The first set was dominated by Jasmine who flew to 4-0, gave back one of two beak leads but recovered it immediately and shortly after closed the partial by holding the serve at 15.

In the second set Andreescu has to save five break points, one on’1-1 and four on 3-3 also saving herself from 15-40, then forò è Paolini to break serve in’the eighth game and the set ends with a partial 11 points to 2 in favor of the Canadian who extends the match.

Finally Jasmine in the second game of the deciding partial returns a serve from her opponent. But the set è a very clear domination of the Tuscan who loses only 9 points in the entire partial and closes the practice after only one’hour and 33 minutes of play.

Now Jasmine will face Russian Elina Avanesyan, world number 70, who surprisingly beat Chinese Qinwen Zheng 3-6 6-3 7-6 after 2 hours and 52 minutes of battle. And meanwhile, the’azzurra reaches at this level of the tournament joins Elisabetta Cocciaretto, for whom è instead, the first time among the Sweet Sixteen of a Slam.

It had been since the 2015 U.S. Open that two Italians did not reach this point in a Major, then Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci did, who then incredibly both reached the final, while in the same year at Roland Garros Pennetta and Sara Errani did.