Jasmine Paolini

Jasmine Paolini
Jasmine Paolini (2018)
Nation:	Italy
Birthday:	4th January 1996
Size:	162 cm
Playing hand:	Right, two-handed backhand
Trainer:	Renzo Furlan
Prize money:	$ 461,024
singles
Career record:	236: 162
Career title:	0 WTA , 8 ITF
Highest ranking:	93 (March 2, 2020)
Current placement:	95
Grand Slam record
Double
Career record:	17:25
Career title:	0 WTA, 1 ITF
Highest ranking:	546 (June 24, 2019)
Current placement:	964
Last update of the infobox: March 16, 2020
Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Jasmine Paolini (born January 4, 1996 in Castelnuovo di Garfagnana ) is an Italian tennis player .

Career

Paolini, whose mother is half Polish , half Ghanaian , plays mainly on the ITF Women's Circuit . So far she has won eight singles and one double title there. As a junior, she gained her first experience in small clay court tournaments in Italy. In 2013 she reached the third round of the women's junior competition at the US Open , as well as at the Australian Open the following year. From the organizer of the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome, she received a wildcard for qualification in both singles and doubles in 2015 , but she lost both times in the first round.

In 2016, after losing three finals, Paolini won her first ITF title in a $ 25,000 tournament in Valencia . The following season she took part in all four qualifying tournaments of the Grand Slams for the first time, but could only win a match at Wimbledon . In June of the same year, the Italian celebrated her biggest title to date by winning the Open Féminin de Marseille 2017 . In her first appearance in the main draw of a WTA tournament in Bastad , she could only win a single game against Carla Suárez Navarro .

At the beginning of 2018 Paolini made her debut in the Italian Fed Cup team , but lost again in straight sets against Suárez Navarro in front of a home crowd. In April she achieved her first victory in the main round of a WTA tournament in Bogotá . A little later she reached a WTA quarter-finals for the first time in Prague after missing qualification as a successor lucky loser. At the start she beat Darja Kassatkina, who was third, a player from the top 20 of the tennis world rankings , before she had to admit defeat to Zhang Shuai in the round of eight .

Paolini initially failed to build on this success. At the Internazionali BNL d'Italia 2019 , she came into the main field with a wildcard, where she lost to Sofia Kenin without a chance. Nevertheless, she was able to qualify for the first time for the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament at the subsequent French Open , but she could not repeat her victory against Darja Kassatkina when they met in the first round. By the end of the year, two more WTA quarter-finals followed at the home tournament in Palermo and from the qualification in Guangzhou . Due to good results in higher endowed ITF tournaments at the end of the season, including in Shenzhen and Tokyo , she was able to finish the calendar year among the top 100 in the world and qualify for the main draw of the Australian Open for the first time , but where she failed in the opening round.

Paolini has played a total of eleven matches in singles and doubles for the Italian Fed Cup team since 2017, of which she was able to win four.

Tournament victories

singles

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	17th August 2013	Loci	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Jade Suvrijn	6: 1, 7: 5
2.	July 27, 2014	Viserba	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Anna-Giulia Remondina	6: 1, 6: 0
3.	April 24, 2016	Santa Margherita di Pula	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Tessah Andrianjafitrimo	0: 1 task
4th	November 28, 2016	Valencia	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Quirine Lemoine	6: 1, 2: 6, 6: 4
5.	June 11, 2017	Marseille	ITF $ 100,000	sand	Tatiana Maria	6: 4, 2: 6, 6: 2
6th	5th August 2017	Woking	ITF $ 25,000	Hard court	Mihaela Buzărnescu	6: 4, 1: 6, 6: 4
7th	March 24, 2019	Curitiba	ITF $ 25,000	sand	Anna Bondar	4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 2
8th.	June 9, 2019	Brescia	ITF $ 60,000	sand	Diāna Marcinkēviča	6: 2, 6: 1

Double

No.	date	competition	category	Topping	Partner	Final opponents	Result
1.	September 14, 2013	Santa Margherita di Pula	ITF $ 10,000	sand	Giorgia Marchetti	Alexandra Nancarrow Laura Schaeder	7: 6 3 , 7: 6 3

Web links

Commons : Jasmine Paolini  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• WTA profile of Jasmine Paolini (English)
• ITF profile of Jasmine Paolini (English)
• ITF junior profile Jasmine Paolini (English)
• Fed Cup stats by Jasmine Paolini (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jasmine Paolini, avanza il nuovo: "Il mio sogno è Wimbledon" (Cataldo). In: ubitennis.com. February 9, 2017, accessed July 7, 2020 (Italian).