“Jasmin failed to impose a proper fight on Arina in the first round of Steffi Graf’s group”, — write: sport.ua
Italian tennis player Jasmine Paolini (WTA 8) lost the opening match at the WTA Finals 2025 in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), which takes place from November 1 to 8.
In the first round of the group, Steffi Graf Paolini lost in two sets to the world number one Arina Sobolenko in 1 hour and 10 minutes.
WTA Finals 2025. Steffi Graf group
First round. November 2
Arina Sobolenko – Jasmine Paolini (Italy) – 6:3, 6:1
Paolini held her eighth head-to-head match against Sobolenko and suffered her sixth defeat, including the fifth in a row.
Jasmin is playing at the WTA Finals for the second time in her career. Last year, the Italian failed to reach the playoffs.
In one quartet, Sobolenko and Paolini play together with the Americans Jessica Pegula and Coco Goff.