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Jasmine Paolini Beats Coco Gauff in Italian Open Final to Become First Home Winner in 40 Years
- Jasmine Paolini won the Italian Open women's singles final on Saturday, May 17, 2025, in Rome by defeating Coco Gauff 6-4, 6-2 at the Foro Italico.
- Paolini ended a 40-year wait for an Italian woman to win the tournament, the last being Raffaella Reggi in 1985, and took advantage of strong home-crowd support.
- The match lasted one hour and 29 minutes, with Paolini making 20 unforced errors and zero double faults, while Gauff committed 55 unforced errors and seven double faults.
- Paolini said, "It doesn't seem real to me," and credited the crowd, adding "The crowd has been incredible" during her victory celebration on the clay court.
- Paolini's victory will elevate her into the world’s top five next week, and with her fellow Italian Jannik Sinner competing in the men's final, Italy is on track to possibly claim all the singles titles at the Rome tournament.
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Jasmine Paolini beats Coco Gauff in Italian Open final to become first home winner in 40 years
Jasmine Paolini beat Coco Gauff 6-4, 6-2 in the Italian Open women’s singles final on Saturday to become the first Italian player to win the tournament in 40 years, before repeating the feat in the doubles final on Sunday.
Rome. The drought for Italy at the Open in Rome ended. After a little over 40 years, a venue was crowned again in the tennis competition after Jasmine Paolini defeated the American Coco Gauff, second in the world rankings, by 6-4 and 6-2 to hold a historic championship for his country.
Paolini defeats Gauff to become first home Italian Open winner in 40 years
Jasmine Paolini got the party started at the Foro Italico. And now the stage is set for Jannik Sinner to cap it off.Paolini made the crowd's fervent support stand up, beating Coco Gauff 6-4, 6-2 to become the first home player to win the Italian Open
After forty years of waiting, Italian tennis crowned a new queen in Rome, the energetic Jasmine Paolini, who defeated the next number 2 of the world, Coco Gauff, by 6-4 and 6-2 in the final played this Saturday at the Italic Forum. Victory shook the magnetic stage from euphoria, surrendered to the show of Paolini. To the sound of the techno theme Tutta l’Italia, applauded by 10,000 spectators, the champion sang and danced without containing an i…
Days Before French Open, American Tennis Bigwigs’ Voice Warn Coco Gauff After Italian Open Loss
It looks like the finals heartbreak is refusing to stop for Coco Gauff. Earlier this month, she went down fighting against Aryna Sabalenka in the summit clash of the Madrid Open. A couple of weeks later, the American sensation finds herself in a similar spot as she lost against the home favorite, Jasmine Paolini, in the summit clash of the Italian Open. It was another heartbreaking end to a wonderful campaign for Gauff as she failed to clear the…
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