It has been less than a month since Qinwen Zheng beat Jasmine Paolini in the quarterfinals of the Wuhan Open, but a few weeks feels like years in the tennis world - especially towards the end of a grueling season. So far, Zheng and Paolini have experienced ...

Aryna Sabalenka reached the semifinals of the WTA Finals with a 6-3, 7-5 win over Jasmine Paolini on Monday for a second straight victory in the group stage.

Italy’s Jasmine Paolini continued her outstanding 2024 season with a round-robin win over Elena Rybakina in straight sets (7-6, 6-4) at the 2024 WTA Finals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Paolini, 28, has won 38 singles matches in 2024; her previous highest win count was 24. She was a finalist in back-to-back Grand Slams at the French Open and Wimbledon.

Aryna Sabalenka withstands Jasmine Paolini fight-back to seal WTA Finals progress - The World No 1 is through to the last four after a a 6-3 7-5 victory

Aryna Sabalenka (No. 1) will take on fellow top-10 resident Jasmine Paolini (No. 4) in the Round Robin at the Akron WTA Finals Guadalajara on Monday, November 4.Sabalenka’s last match was a

The 26-year-old is also on the brink of clinching the year-end No. 1 ranking. A win over Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina in the final group match on Nov 6 or a loss by her rival, Poland’s Iga Swiatek, would seal the year-end top spot for the Belarusian.

With two round-robin wins in as many matches this week in Saudi Arabia, Sabalenka guaranteed herself passage to the final four as the winner of the Purple Group.