Crazy Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini: with two super comebacks they are confirmed as queens of Rome

Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolni are confirmed as queens of the women’s doubles at the Internazionali d’Italia: on the Central Court of the Foro Italico in Rome, they beat Russian Veronika Kudermetova and Belgian Elise Mertens with a score of 6-4 7-5 in one hour and three quarters of play. Jasmine is the first to win doubles between singles and doubles on the Capitolima clay since 1990: then Monica Seles did it, who won in doubles together with Canadian Helen Kelesi.
The start was terrible.
The start is terrible for the Azzurri, who go down 0-4 and the Russian and Belgian also have two consecutive balls for 5-0 but Kudermetova, a hammer in the first games, jams and Sara and Jasmine make a resounding turnaround by stringing six consecutive games.
The second set looks like a photocopy of the first: the Azzurri go down 0-4 and then recover at 4-4 without saving 0-5 balls, but then Jasmine loses her serve for the third time in the match: 5-4 and Kudermetova loses her serve instead for the fourth time. At 6-5 for the Azzurri it goes to the deciding point after two missed game balls by Kidermetova and Mertens, the Belgian serves and Jasmine places the winning response with her forehand.
The Belgian serves the Belgian and Jasmine places the winning response with her forehand.
Not since 2009 has a tennis player won both singles and doubles in a WTA 1000, which were then called Premier Mandatory: Vera Zvonareva did it in Indian Wells, today an ommense Jasmine Paolini did it assisted by a Sara Errani who was clearly the best on the court. The last to win two consecutive women’s doubles events in Rome had been the U.S.’s Mary Jo Fernandez and Belarusian Natasha Zvereva in 1994 and 1995. And at 5 p.m. it’s the turn of the men’s singles final between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz.