Fantastic Sara Errani and Jasmine Paoliniwho fly in the final of Double at the International in Rome, after last year’s victory. The two blue imposed themselves on the Shnaider-Andreeva couple for 6-4 6-4 in just over an hour and twenty of the game. In the final they will see it with the winners of the challenge between Kudermetova-Mertens and Perez-Sanderswhich will be staged in the late afternoon today. Russia did not take revenge on Italy. Indeed, Jasmine Paolini and Sara Errani opposed to Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider went better than at the Paris Olympics: there they won the gold medal at the Super-Tie break, this time two sets were enough (6/4-6/4) to conquer the final. On Sunday the outgoing champions will aim to repeat with the winners of the match scheduled tonight among the tennis players of Belgium Veronika Kudermetova-Elise Mertens and the Australian Storm Hunter and Ellen Perez.
“We started immediately attentive, we were tactically perfect, with them it is never an easy match, they are needed, in single they are very strong,” Errani said in the post-match interview, thanking his partner Jas: “He is crazy, tough, he gave everything today, I just have to thank her, tomorrow he will be on the field for the final of the single”. In the windy basin of the power plant, almost full, with the tricolor on the viewers’ knees, the blue played a perfect match, breaching the Russians on the two of the first and reassembling from 2-4 to 5-4 in the second: thanks to Bordate from the Fondo Campo della Paolini, much more effective and mobile than the semifinal in the singular, surgical balloon and perfect width of Errani. In the Russian couple Shnaider with his winners seemed to be safer than Andeeva, the protagonist of some double fouls too much. After the epic comeback in the second, he touched Errani go to beat for the match: a nervous game, with a straight shot shot immediately by Jasmine, imitated by Andeeva and then by the shnaider. On the first match point Errani hit the first and Jasmine went to take stock with a messenger straight. Hugs between the two small large heroines of the forum, waved tricolors. Sunday the final for the encore.