{"id":48832,"date":"2025-05-18T16:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T13:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=48832"},"modified":"2025-05-18T16:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T13:56:07","slug":"paolini-beats-gauff-to-become-1st-home-player-in-40-years-to-win-italian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/paolini-beats-gauff-to-become-1st-home-player-in-40-years-to-win-italian-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Paolini Beats Gauff to Become 1st Home Player in 40 Years to Win Italian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jasmine Paolini took advantage of the crowd\u2019s support and beat Coco Gauff 6-4, 6-2 to become the first home player to win the Italian Open in 40 years on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>With top-ranked Jannik Sinner to play Carlos Alcaraz in the men\u2019s final on Sunday, Italy could earn its first sweep of the Rome singles titles, The Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n<p>The last Italian woman to win the open was Raffaella Reggi in 1985 in Taranto. The last local man to raise the trophy was Adriano Panatta in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Paolini and partner Sara Errani are also in the women\u2019s doubles final and will play Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens for that trophy on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>With the country\u2019s tennis boom in full force, Italy President Sergio Mattarella attended the woman\u2019s final at the Foro Italico.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous fans held aloft Italian flags and they constantly shouted \u201cVai Jasmine\u201d (\u201cGo Jasmine\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jasmine Paolini took advantage of the crowd\u2019s support and beat Coco Gauff 6-4, 6-2 to become the first home player to win the Italian Open in 40 years on Saturday. With top-ranked Jannik Sinner to play Carlos Alcaraz in the men\u2019s final on Sunday, Italy could earn its first sweep of the Rome singles titles, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48833,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48832\/revisions\/48833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}