Jasmine Paolini starts strong but then succumbs to Swiatek in Cincinnati

In Cincinnati, Iga Swiatek breaks the dream of Jasmine Paolini, who starts strong but fails to win her third WTA 1000 title. The Pole won in two sets with a score of 7-5, 6-4 and lifted her 24th career trophy on the WTA circuit, the 11th in a WTA 1000 tournament.

The Tuscan gets off to a rocket start, also taking advantage of an inaccurate start by the Polish player: four errors in the second game cost Iga the first break she suffered. The Italian flies 3-0 with a brilliant and aggressive tennis that puts her opponent in trouble. But the illusion is short-lived: at 3-0, Swiatek shifts gears and reverses the partial to 5-3, before closing out the first set, despite another break conceded along the way.

In the second set, Swiatek starts strong with an immediate break (1-0), but Jasmine reacts and gets the immediate counter-break (1-1). Her serve remains a non-determining factor. Paolini commits a double fault and suffers a new break in the fifth game (3-2), the Polish player fails to consolidate but accelerates in the key moments, while her opponent, while struggling to the end, also pays for some hasty choices. Iga takes a 5-3 lead and then closes without any more risk.