Remarkable Coco Gauff mullers Paolini in the round robin to set up a battle vs Sabalenka. HIGHLIGHTS, INTERVIEW – RIYADH RESULTS

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

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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 12^th 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 2^nd 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 7^th (3-4) game. Gauff maintained her cool to break the Italian in the 8^th (5-3) game before conquering the set (6-3).

Paolini lost the 8^th 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 2^nd (1-0 0-40), the 4^th

(3-0 40-A, 40-A and 40-A) and the 8^th 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 3^rd (0-2 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40) and the 6^th 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 5^th (3-2) and in the 7^th (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 5^th (2-2 40-A) and the 7^th game (4-2 15-40). On the other side, Paolini wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 8^th 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