Cori Gauff annihilates Jasmine Paolini 6-3 6-2 in the Round Robin in Riyadh on Tuesday after playing a superlative match to play Aryna Sabalenka in the Round Robin. The match lasted 1 hour and 18 minutes. Gauff won this tournament once in 2024. Here you can see her history at this event.
Highlights Cori Gauff vs. Jasmine Paolini WTA Finals – Riyadh
Gauff’s Interview
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Coco scored 64 points vs. the Italian’s 43
.Gauff
Coco was effective at converting 57% of the break points that she procured (4/7).
Paolini
On the other side, the Italian had some problems converting her break points (only 20% – 1/5). That was one of the key issues for her defeat.
After this contest, the head to head between Gauff and Paolini is 4-3 for Coco.
Draw and next match H2H: Cori Gauff vs. Aryna Sabalenka – stats
Gauff will square off with Sabalenka in the Round Robin.
This will be the 12th time that Cori Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka face off. The head to head is 6-5 for Gauff (see full H2H stats),but they are 1-1 on I.hard.
The last time that they fought against each other, Gauff won 6-75 6-2 6-4 in the final in Paris back in June 2025.
Live score progression and stats
Gauff started the set in the best possible way after breaking Jasmine Paolini in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating her break and lead 3-0. Notwithstanding, that wasn’t sufficient for Gauff to win the set as the Italian found the way to break back in the 7th (3-4) game. Gauff maintained her cool to break the Italian in the 8th (5-3) game before conquering the set (6-3).
Paolini lost the 8th game (5-3) when she was comfortably leading 40-0.
Gauff converted 40% of her break points (2/5). She had 5 break points opportunities in the 2nd (1-0 0-40), the 4th
(3-0 40-A, 40-A and 40-A) and the 8th game (4-3 40-A). Moreover, on the other side, Paolini converted 25% of her break points (1/4). She had her opportunities in the 3rd (0-2 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 6th game (2-4 15-40).They played 65 points. Coco was the one to win the set after conquering 7 more points than Jasmine (36-29). Gauff lost 9 points on serve (18-9). In addition, on the other side, the Italian conceded 18 points on serve (20-18).
The American in this set didn’t concede much to Paolini and consequently she won 6-2 after breaking Paolini in the 5th (3-2) and in the 7th (5-2) game.
The Italian had no answers in the last 5 games of the set when the game count went from 1-2 to 6-2.
The American was flawless in converting all her break points in the 5th (2-2 40-A) and the 7th game (4-2 15-40). On the other side, Paolini wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 8th game (2-5 30-40).
They played 42 points. Coco was the one to win the set after conquering 14 more points than Jasmine (28-14). Gauff conceded 6 points on serve (17-6). on the other side of the net, the Italian conceded 11 points on serve (8-11).
Tennis Scores in Riyadh
- Cori GauffGauff – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (6-3 6-2)
- Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova – Madison KeysKeys (4-6 6-3 6-2)
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Iga SwiatekSwiatek (3-6 6-1 6-0)
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (6-3 6-1)
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Cori GauffGauff (6-3 6-74 6-2)
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Madison KeysKeys (6-1 6-2)
Upcoming matches
- Aryna SabalenkaSabalenka – Jessica PegulaPegula (8-3) – H2H details and stats
- Jessica PegulaPegula – Jasmine PaoliniPaolini (3-1) – H2H details and stats
- Iga SwiatekSwiatek – Amanda AnisimovaAnisimova (1-1) – H2H details and stats
- Elena RybakinaRybakina – Madison KeysKeys (3-3) – H2H details and stats