Lost a number 1 (but it will only be a matter of time, a Upper and Down destined to last years between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz) if another is made.
Indeed no two more: the award -winning company Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini wins the 1000 of Beijing and Scala up to number one the double wta “race” (the association of women’s professional tennis), that is The world ranking of the calendar year that decides the participants in Riyadh’s WTA Finals, the tournament that sees the best of the year challenge In double but also in singular, so Paolini is in the running.
The two girls well accustomed us: Beijing is their ninth title in pairs, the fourth this year (after the 1000 of Doha, that of Rome and the Roland Garros), not to mention the Billie Jean King, the female Davis who does not bring points but great prestige: the two contributed to you in the singular (with Paolini and Cocciaretto) and in double (Paolini/Errani) by winning in the final against the United States of Pugula and Navarro, a precious stuff, second perhaps only at the Olympic gold of Paris. Always, because unlike the others it does not expire: Olympic champions are not in charge but for life.
Paolini and Errani are often Davide against Goliath, the body does not seem to be from them but they defeat the giants, with determination and intelligence, always smiling, without ever trembling and without ever surrendering something that makes them very dangerous in comeback.
If first the double served to jas to increase the snacks of a singularist network, if for Sara it was the natural continuation of a singular career, made more complicated by the registry: in short, a plan B for both, Now the double is their flagship, one more than it does not remove but addsso much so that not only does not prevent Paolini, number 8 of the world in singular, to cultivate both specialties with systematicity, but it would be said that it makes both sides of its racket grow.
Perhaps there is also a technical partnership in which the comparison increases both the trust of both, each for itself to give in the maximum on the field, but also mutual, to the point that Sara, 9 years older, now during the singular matches sits in the Jasmine box giving technical advice. Another piece of growth that matures. And there are those who are convinced that sooner or later she will be Jasmine’s official coach.
