Faraj Benlahoucine, Media365, published on Wednesday November 20, 2024 at 9:03 p.m.
Jasmine Paolini easily won her deciding match in the Billie Jean King Cup final against Rebecca Sramkova. The world No. 4 brought Italy its sixth star.
This year, Jasmine Paolini cherished her dream of lifting a Grand Slam tournament very closely, successively at Roland-Garros and Wimbledon. But the Italian failed against Iga Swiatek in Paris then against Barbora Krejcikova in London. However, the world No. 4 took a little revenge, ending the year on a positive note. As patron of the Billie Jean King Cup Italian team, Jasmine Paolini easily disposed of Rebecca Sramkova in the final this Wednesday (6-2, 6-1) near Malaga in the south of Spain.
Imperial in the service and regularly pushing the Slovak to make mistakes (28 unforced errors), Jasmine Paolini took 1h06 to bring the second decisive point for his nation and thus grant him a fifth star in the competition. The first since 2013, a year after the failure in the final against Canada. Earlier in the afternoon, Lucia Bronzetti opened the ball by outclassing Viktoria Hruncakova (6-2, 6-4). The 78th player at the WTA assured, like her great performance in the semi-final when she dominated the Polish Magda Linette.
