Jasmine Paolini overwhelming: she is in the semifinals in Eastbourne
Jasmine Paolini-Katie Boulter 6-1 7-6
Jasmine Paolini doesn't want to know about stopping this season, not even on grass where she just hit her first career semifinal. In the quarterfinals of the WTA 500 in Eastbourne, the Italian player, in fact, beat British Katie Boulter, world number 32, in two sets with a final score of 6-1 7-6 after an hour and thirty-five minutes of play.
Paolini got off to a lightning start and already in the fourth game she snatched the serve from her opponent and went ahead 3-1. The wind conditions Boulter a lot, especially on serve, in which she commits numerous double faults: the Tuscan took advantage of this to repeat the break lead and close on 6-1 final, after stringing five consecutive games.
The second partial è more balanced: Jasmine breaks Boulter’s serve in the fifth game (3-2) but makes up for it in the eighth (4-4). They proceeded 'on serve' thus arriving at the tie-break, dominated by the Italian: Paolini flew in an instant on 6-0 and with the ace closed the accounts, giving herself access to the semifinals.
With this victory, Paolini reaches the penultimate act of the 'Rothesay International' where she will find the winner of the challenge between Russian Daria Kasatkina, number 14 in the WTA ranking and number six of the seeding, and British Emma Raducanu, world number 168.
