Jasmine Paolini will face Russian Anastasia Potapova in the round of 16 of the WTA 1000 tournament in Indian Wells. The Italian tennis player defeated the Russian Anna Kalinskaya, as she had already done in the final act of the WTA 1000 in Dubai, and now she will be called to face a new, tough opponent on American hard courts.
The 28 year old from Tuscany, current number 14 in the WTA ranking, will meet the 22 year old, number 33 in the world (last June he reached 21st place). There are no precedents between the two playerswho will compete for qualification to the quarter-finals, where they would meet one of Hadda Maia, Pavlyuchenkova and Kostyuk.
Jasmine Paolini is going through a simply wonderful moment and her form is commendable, now she doesn’t preclude any goal and the dream is to win the second consecutive 1000m, a feat that would actually allow her to fall into the top-10 of the international ranking .
The Italian has entered a new dimension and will not have to be worried by Potapova. The Saratov native is 175 cm tall (therefore 12 taller than the Italian) and has won two tournaments in her career, namely the WTA 250 in Istanbul (2022) and Linz (2023). In the Slams she has never reached the third round (2021 at the Australian Open, 2022 at Wimbledon, 2023 at Roland Garros).
2024-03-10 22:53:38
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