Wimbledon, Jasmine Paolini beats Bianca Andreescu again and flies into the round of 16

Wimbledon, Jasmine Paolini beats Bianca Andreescu again and flies into the round of 16

On the number 1 court of Wimbledon Jasmine Paolini, world number 7, in the third round of the women’s singles on the London grass beat with the score of 7-6 6-1 the Canadian Bianca Andreescu, currently number 176 but former number 4 and winner of the US Open in 2019, qualifying for the round of 16, where she will find the winner between the U.S. Madison Keys. who got the better of 6-4 6-3 over the’Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk.

Break and counterbreak in the opening two games, the first in Andreescu’s favor, with Paolini reacting immediately. On 2-1 Jasmine has two more break points but Bianca cancels them in a great way with two aces. The two protagonists hold serve until the tie-break, on 5-4 in her favor Jasmine gets two set points with a beautiful backhand from the back and on the next point she does the encore taking home the very balanced first set.

Andreescu took a bathroom break at the end of the tie-break, but the second set è an absolute domination of Jasmine who from 0-1 strung six consecutive games and above all strung another very convincing victory in one hour and 31 minutes against an’opponent she had already beaten at Roland Garros in three sets and who is returning to a very high level after countless injuries.

These are the words of the 28-year-old Tuscan from Bagni di Lucca at the end of the match: “I played a great match, I hope you enjoyed it, I sì, I enjoyed hearing you cheering me. She è a great player and I tried to take away the initiative of the game from her. È it’s fun playing on the grass and playing volleys, I’ve been playing a lot of doubles lately and that helps me”.