Jasmine Paolini will play the ultimate in opposition to Iga Swiatek at Roland Garros

Paris. The Italian Jasmine Paolini, fifteenth participant on the earth, continues her nice journey at Roland Garros and this Thursday she certified for her first Grand Slam last by overwhelming the younger Russian Mirra Andreeva (38) within the semifinals by 6-3 and 6- 1.

Paolini will subsequently be answerable for difficult the good favourite and world primary, the Polish Iga Swiatek, who aspires in Saturday’s duel to win the Parisian match for the fourth time in her profession.

For the 28-year-old Tuscan participant, who on Wednesday had shocked the Kazakh Elena Rybakina (4) within the quarterfinals, this Roland Garros, the place she had by no means beforehand made it previous the second spherical, is popping out to be a fairy story and he or she now solely wants search for the comfortable ending.

This yr 2024 has additionally marked a leap in its efficiency. His greatest efficiency in a Grand Slam had beforehand been achieved at first of the course on the Australian Open, then reaching the spherical of 16.

Now her mission shall be to turn into the second Italian to inscribe her title within the honors of the Roland Garros girls’s match since Francesca Schiavone in 2010.

Paolini can be the third participant from her nation to succeed in the ultimate on the Paris Grand Slam. Schiavone additionally misplaced the ultimate in 2011, in opposition to the Chinese language Li Na, and Sara Errani was runner-up in 2012, dropping within the decisive duel in opposition to the Russian Maria Sharapova.

“I realized maybe a bit later than different gamers that dreaming is a very powerful factor in sport and in life. I had dreamed of this second,” Paolini mentioned in his message to the general public from the observe.

“I noticed different Italians attain the finals, and likewise win Grand Slams, however imagining that I could possibly be one in every of them was troublesome,” a “very comfortable and likewise shocked” Paolini mentioned at a press convention.

Andreeva, who has the previous Spanish tennis participant Conchita Martínez as a coach, closes at simply 17 years previous her greatest efficiency in a Grand Slam with this fall within the semifinals, after a journey that confirms her huge projection and during which she managed to defeat within the quarterfinals. last to the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka (2).