Tennis, Jasmine Paolini beats Coco Gauff and flies to the semifinals in Stuttgart. Now the challenge to Sabalenka

Stuttgart (Germany), 19 April 2025 – On the third attempt Jasmin Paolini finally beatsand Coco Gauff and tear off the ticket for the "Porsche Tennis Grand Prix" semi-finals, Wta 500 from 925.661 dollars which is being played on the indoor clay of the "Porsche Arena" in Stuttgart. The 29 year old from Bagni di Lucca, number 6 in the ranking and fifth seeding favorite, accompanied by her new coach Marc Lopez, scored her first career victory against the young American, fourth seed and also number 4 in the draw: 6-4 6-3 after an hour and 27 minutes of play in favor of the Tuscan, who had been defeated in the two previous matches, in the first round in Adelaide in 2021 and in the quarterfinals in Cincinnati in 2023, both on hard court.

For a place in the final, the Italian will face the number one in the world and in the tournament, the Belarusian, on Easter Sunday. Aryna Sabalenka, finalist for three years in a row (2021-2023), who in the quarterfinals (her debut: after the "bye" in the first round as seed, she benefited in the round of 6 from the withdrawal of the Russian Potapova) regulated by 4-6 1-29 the Belgian Elise Mertens, number 4 in the ranking, beaten for the ninth time in eleven confrontations. Paolini is 2-26 down in the precedents with Sabalenka: the 2022-year-old from Minsk has won the last three and has not lost against the Italian since Indian Wells XNUMX. The other semifinal will instead see Jelena Ostapenko and Ekaterina Alexandrova face off