Jasmine Paolini challenges Coco Gauff for Stuttgart Open semi-final

TENNIS

The adventure of the couple formed by Jasmine Paolini and Sara Errani at the Stuttgart Open tournament comes to an end. Yesterday the Italians were defeated by the Russian Ekaterina Aleksandrova who in this event plays together with the Chinese Shuai Zhang with the score of 2-6 6-2 8-10. However, the experience of Paolini in Germany continues with the Tuscan who today (at 18.30:XNUMX) in the singles will face the American Coco Gauff in a match that is worth access to the semifinal. There is a lot of attention on the performance of the Italian tennis player, given that these are the first matches with her new coach Marc Lopez, the former tennis player who was part of Rafael Nadal's staff.

"The idea of ​​working with him came by chance - explained Paolini to the microphones of Supertennis -. We are getting to know each other, we try to talk a lot. This is the first tournament in which he sees me live and it is not easy. I am happy with how the collaboration started, then we will see. I do not know what to expect, but for now it is fine".

In the meantime there is a match to be played in this Wta 500 tournament.

"Coco and I know each other well. I've trained with her often in the last six months. Her ball is very powerful, I definitely have to try to be aggressive, to control the point. But it won't be easy, because she serves well, moves well, returns well. For me, she's a very complete player."

Meanwhile, Jannik Sinner continues to train with the Englishman Jacl Draper in Monte Carlo in preparation for the Rome International, when the tennis player from Alto Adige will return to play an official match after the three-month disqualification agreed with WADA.

Instead, the path of the Italian-Argentine Luciano Darderi at the ATP 500 in Munich stops in the quarterfinals. The 2002-born and number 47 in the world loses against the American and number 15 Ben Shelton with the score of 6-4, 6-3 in just under an hour and a quarter of play.