Jasmine Paolini defeats Peyton Stearns 7-5 6-1 in the semifinal in Rome on Thursday. Paolini is going to play against Cori Gauff or Qinwen Zheng in the final. The match lasted 1 hour and 39 minutes. This will be her best achievement in this event. In the past, the best she could do was reaching the 2nd round in 2020, 2023 and 2024. Here you can see her history at this event.
Paolini added to her prize money € 216,355 after winning this match. She has already won € 456,735 after this win. If she wins the next match, Paolini will add € 420,655 to her earnings to get in total € 877,390 in total.
Highlights Jasmine Paolini vs. Peyton Stearns Internazionali BNL d’Italia – Rome
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Jasmine scored 77 points vs. Stearns’s 63.
Paolini
Jasmine was effective at converting 55% of the break points that she conquered (6/11).
Stearns
On the other side, the American wasn’t that great in converting her break points (only 29% – 2/7). That was one of the key issues for her demise.
After this match, the head to head between Paolini and Stearns is 1-0 for Jasmine.
Draw and next match H2H: Jasmine Paolini vs. Cori Gauff or Qinwen Zheng – stats
Paolini will take on either Cori Gauff or Qinwen Zheng in the final. The head to head is 1-2 vs. Cori Gauff and 0-4 vs. Qinwen Zheng.
Live score progression and stats
Paolini had a strong start of this set after breaking Peyton Stearns in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Notwithstanding, Paolini managed to stage a great comeback to break Peyton 3 times in the 7th
(3-4), in the 9th (4-5) and in the 11th (6-5) game before winning the set (7-5).The American was unable to find the solution against the opposition in the last 6 games of the set when the scoreline went from 3-5 to 7-5.
They contested 93 points. The set was a huge battle since finally the Italian won just 3 more points than Stearns (48-45
). Jasmine conceded 20 points on serve (24-20). on the other side of the net, the American conceded 24 points on serve (25-24).The Italian won the set after she broke Stearns 3 times in the 3rd (2-1), in the 5th (4-1) and in the 7th (6-1) game.
Stearns couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 5 games of the set when the scoreline went from 1-1 to 6-1.
The Italian converted 60% of her break points (3/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-1 30-40), the 5th (3-1 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 7th game (5-1 15-40). On the other side, Stearns wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 6th game (1-4 40-A).
They played 43 points. The Italian was the winner of the set after clinching 13 points more than Stearns (28-15). The Italian conceded 10 points on serve (16-10). on the other side of the court, the American conceded 12 points on serve (5-12).
Tennis Scores in Rome
- Jasmine PaoliniPaolini – Peyton StearnsStearns (7-5 6-1)
Upcoming matches
- Qinwen ZhengZheng – Cori GauffGauff (0-2) – H2H details and stats