{"id":72,"date":"2025-05-19T05:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T05:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/jasmine-paolini-defeats-coco-gouf-to-win-the-italian-open\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T13:32:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T13:32:51","slug":"jasmine-paolini-defeats-coco-gouf-to-win-the-italian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/jasmine-paolini-defeats-coco-gouf-to-win-the-italian-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Jasmine Paolini defeats Coco Gouf to win the Italian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rome – Jasmine Paolini started a party at Italico’s pho. And now the stage is set for Jannik Sinner to close it out.<\/p>\n

Paolini took advantage of crowd support and beat Coco Goff 6-4, 6-2, becoming the first home player to win the Italian Open on Saturday in 40 years.<\/p>\n

Italy was a top-ranked sinner who plays Carlos Alcaraz on the men’s final Sunday and managed to win the first sweep of the Roman singles title.<\/p>\n

The last Italian woman to win the Open was Rafaela Ledge in Tarrant in 1985. The last local man to raise the trophy was Adriano Panatta in 1976.<\/p>\n

Paolini pushed T down at her second championship point, and when Gauff couldn’t get it back, she celebrated with a big smile and raised her arms as she swiveled with joy.<\/p>\n

“It doesn’t seem to be true to me,” Parini said. “I came here as a kid to watch this tournament, but it wasn’t even my dream to win it and maintain this trophy.”<\/p>\n

Before the trophy ceremony, the crowd chanted “I, I, Oar, Jasmine, Jasmine” and Paolini responded by forming her hands into the shape of a heart.<\/p>\n

“The crowd was incredible,” Parini said.<\/p>\n

Paolini and partner Sara Errani will also compete in the women’s doubles final, playing Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens on Sunday of that trophy.<\/p>\n

“Two weeks are two weeks and it’s not finished yet,” Parini said.<\/p>\n

Italian President Sergio Matarera fully enforced the country’s tennis boom and attended the women’s final at Campo Centre.<\/p>\n

Many fans were stretching out the Italian flag and screaming constantly.”Vijasmin<\/em>“(” Go Jasmine “).<\/p>\n

Paolini, who ranked fifth, was runner-up at the French Open and Wimbledon, leading Italy to the Billy Jung King Cup title last year. She and Elani won gold medals in doubles at the Parisio Philosophy.<\/p>\n

Paolini will rank fourth on Monday’s rankings and will improve his position at the French Open draw starting next weekend.<\/p>\n

At 29, Paolini has achieved far more than early in her career.<\/p>\n

“I played her in Adelaide a long time ago,” Goff said. He mentioned the match the Americans won in 2021.<\/p>\n

Certainly, despite her 5-foot-4 height, Paolini is able to produce powerful ground strokes, and she often misses the gouf.<\/p>\n

“Today was my best match of the week,” she said.<\/p>\n

Despite his success last year, Paolini recently made a coaching change, replacing Renzo Furlan with Marc Lopez. Erani is almost always with her, acting as an unofficial coach.<\/p>\n

“She can play the best tennis in the world,” Gauff said.<\/p>\n

Ranked third in third place, Gauff, the 2023 US Open champion, made a whopping 55 powerful errors on Paolini’s 20, hitting seven double faults on Paolini’s None.<\/p>\n

“Maybe I could have served better and put more balls on the court,” Gouf said. “I can definitely do that. But she played to win today and deserved to win… with a double fault, and that’s what I need to improve.”<\/p>\n

This is the second time Gauff has finished as runner-up in two clay court tournaments. She lost the Madrid Open Final to Alina Sabalenka two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Gouf was away from the longest match of her career. He won the semi-finals early on Friday, and won the 3.5 hour period over Zheng Qinwen.<\/p>\n

Paolini also defeated Gouf at a clay court event held in Stuttgart, Germany in April.<\/p>\n

Monica Ceres in 1990 was the last woman to wipe out the Roman singles and doubles titles that same year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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