US Open, doubles: Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini dream of another coup
Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini are still in the running for something big in the women’s doubles at the US Open: in fact, the two Italian champions are set for the quarterfinals, scheduled on Tuesday, after defeating Hungary’s Fanny Stolar and Taiwan’s Wu Fang-Hsien in the round of 16 with a final score of 6-1, 2-6, 6-3.
Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini’s next opponents are American Asia Muhammad and Dutch Demi Schuurs: the latter, in the round of 16, defeated in three sets the pair consisting of Kazakhstan’s Anna Danilina and Serbia’s Aleksandra Krunic. 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 the partials of the match, which lasted over two hours.
Reaching the quarterfinals in doubles at the US Open is in itself a great achievement for Jasmine Paolini, who had never gone that far at Flushing Meadows (at the singles level the best result is the fourth round reached in 2024). Errani, on the other hand, has already won both a doubles tournament, in 2012 paired with Roberta Vinci, and mixed doubles twice, the first last year and the second just in 2025, in both cases together with Andrea Vavassori.
The winning pair of the quarterfinal between Errani/Paolini and Muhammad/Schuurs will face, in the semifinals, the duo that emerges victorious from the match between Timea Babos/Luisa Stefani (Hungarian the former, Brazilian the latter) and Gabriela Dabrowski/Erin Routliffe (Canadian the former, New Zealand the latter). The US Open, in women’s doubles, will certainly have two new champions: last year’s winners, Ljudmila Kichenok and Jelena Ostapenko, participated with other teammates (Ellen Perez for the Ukrainian, Barbora Krejcikova for the Latvian), both being eliminated in the first round.
