When Jasmine Paolini plays in Wuhan: background with Yue Yuan

After her elimination in the quarterfinals of the WTA 1000 in Beijing at the hands of Amanda Anisimova, Jasmine Paolini is ready to return to the court at the WTA 1000 in Wuhan in the hunt for crucial points to reach her WTA Finals goal.

The Tuscan, No. 7 in the seeding and No. 8 in the WTA rankings, will take on wildcard Yue Yuan, world No. 109, who eliminated Lucia Bronzetti in the first round. The match between Azzurra and the Chinese is set for Wednesday, Oct. 8, no earlier than 1 p.m. Italian time (7 p.m. local time) on the center court of Wuhan”Optics Valley International Tennis Center’ in Wuhan.

There are three previous matches between Paolini and Yuan, and all of them smile at the Tuscan tennis player: the most recent was played on clay at Roland Garros 2025 when the Azzurra won in three sets (6-1 4-6 6-3) in the match valid for the first round.

On concrete Paolini is ahead 2-0: the Azzurra defeated the Chinese player just in the second round of the ’last edition of the “Dongfeng-Voyah Wuhan Open” while the’other victory came in the second round of the WTA 1000 in Beijing in 2023.