ST PETERSBURG, FL. – History maker Jasmine Paolini has surged up the PIF Race to the WTA Finals Leaderboard in singles and doubles following a fairytale run to both WTA 1000 Internazionali BNL d’Italia titles in Rome over the weekend.
Paolini defeated Coco Gauff in Saturday’s singles final to become the first Italian woman to win the Rome event since Raffaella Reggi in 1985, before completing a dream tournament on Sunday by being crowned doubles champion with compatriot Sara Errani.
Coco Gauff achieved the victory in 47 minutes at Miami Open.
Paolini’s singles triumph sees her rise nine Leaderboard places to sit at No.7 in the season-long battle to qualify for the WTA Finals Riyadh presented by PIF. Her achievement on home soil was her first singles title of the season, with other key results this year being semifinal runs at the WTA 1000 Miami Open presented by Itaú and the WTA 500 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix (Stuttgart).
Paolini is looking to make her second WTA Finals appearance, having qualified for the prestigious year-end event for the first time in 2024 in both singles and doubles.
Rome runner-up and WTA Finals reigning champion Gauff, who was appearing in her second final in a row after also contesting the title match at the WTA 1000 Mutua Madrid Open, moves up one place to No.5.
On the doubles Leaderboard, Errani and Paolini’s Rome success was their second WTA 1000 title of the season (after the Qatar TotalEnergies Open in Doha) and moves them up four places to No.4. Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens, the team the Italian duo defeated in Sunday’s final, leap ten places to No.10.
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