“It’s a dream.” These are the words that Jasmine Paolini uses most after beating Peyton Stearns in two sets thus conquering his first final at the International of Rome. It is a dream because she returns to her memory when with her dad she was sitting on the central seats to see her idols play.
Today, however, it is she on stage and with the spotlights well focused on it because eleven years after the last time, in Rome there is an Italian to play the title. The last was Errani in 2014, her friend and double companion with whom she won the title last year, before the Olympic gold in Paris. Beyond a decade afterwards, Paolini will try to win a title that only three times was conquered by an Italian because Errani then lost against Serena Williams and no other blue tennis player managed to get closer to a similar goal. Just think also how ‘Jas’, in the capital, had never gone beyond the round of 16. Here this time has done much more, not without obstacles because you are ready the result says 4-1 for the American. But that’s where the comeback begins until it closes 7-5, and then check in the second set.
The rest is history with the final to be played on Saturday, becoming the blue fifth to get there at the Foro Italico, the third in the Open era. “Thank you all that you support us and always support us – he says as the public acclaims it -. It is beautiful when they scream your name. Today there was an uphill start. The brief departure that you have been there, we won a game together. It is all crazy.” And on a historic day for Italy there is an announcement that the world of tennis had been waiting for for some time. “We can finally say that the coverage project will start, the Marco Mezzaroma.
The beginning of the construction sites is scheduled immediately after the 2026 edition of the international, while by 31 December 2027 the conclusion of the works thus reaching the 2028 edition with the roof ready in case of bad weather. A project that will cost about 60 million, however producing an average annual collection of 22 million, but not only from tennis because the system will work about 150 days a year in a multidisciplinary way.