The Polish Iga Swiatek23 years old and world No. 1, and the Italian Jasmine Paolini 28 years old and number 5, the Suzanne Lenglen Cup will be played this Saturday at Roland Garros.
Swiatek’s third straight final in Paris, champion in 2020, 2022 and 2023. He has won his last 20 matches at the tournament, the previous 18 on clay. She came into this event guaranteed to be the WTA 1000 champion in Madrid and Rome, she had a typically bad time in a Grand Slam winning the match ball against the Japanese. Naomi Osaka.
No one expected the presence of Jasmine Paoliniwhich seems reserved for Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka (sick and removed by Mirra Andreeva) or the Kazakh Elena Rybakina (The Italian left him).
With a transalpine father and a Ghanaian mother of Danish and Polish descent, Paolini will attempt to become the third Italian Grand Slam singles champion, after Francesca Schiavone (Roland Garros 2010) and Flavia Pennetta (US Open 2015).
The match starts this Saturday at 3 pm, traditional Paris time. In Spain it can be seen tomorrow on television, via DMAX. The Max platform and the Eurosport channel will continue to broadcast the event.
Source: La Verdad
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