Jasmine Paolini and Rebeka Masarova will take on each other in the round of 32 of the 2023 WTA Lyon Open on February 1.
This is Jasmine Paolini’s second trip to Lyon. She beat Tamara Korpatsch and Irina Bara last year to advance to the quarterfinals, where she lost to Dayana Yastremska. (The Romanian served for the match.) Up until her clay results in July, it was her only quarterfinal appearance at any level in the 2022 season. The Italian has recently been playing some of her best tennis. Her second career final on the indoor hard courts of Cluj-Napoca in October was one of her six WTA quarterfinal victories in the previous twelve months. However, she has a 1-3 win-loss record so far in 2023 and is coming off a Melbourne first-round loss to Liudmila Samsonova.
At the beginning of January, Rebeka Masarova had only earned four WTA main draw victories; three of them came during her run to the semifinals at Gstaad in 2016 just before she turned 17 and the other came more than five years later at the 2021 US Open, where she battled Ana Bogdan for three hours and forty minutes before defeating her, 6-7, 7-6, 7-6. The 23-year-old, who wasn’t even in the top 700 two years ago, got off to a nearly flawless start to the season by defeating Sloane Stephens and Karolina Muchova to qualify for the Auckland final, where she lost to Coco Gauff. An uninteresting qualifying loss to Lucrezia Stefanini in Melbourne marked the end of her trip to Australia.
Jasime Paolini vs Rebeka Masarova | Match details |
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Date | February 1, 2023 |
Surface | Hard courts |
Tournament | Thailand Open |
Stage | Round of 32 |
Time (India) | TBD |
Time (Australia) | TBD |
Opponent | Score |
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Liudmila Samsonova | 6-2, 6-4 (L) |
Elisabetta Cocciaretto | 6-2, 6-1 (L) |
Patricia Maria Tig | 6-3, 6-1 (W) |
Anna Bondar | 3-6, 7-6, 7-6 (L) |
Kateryna Baindl | 6-4, 6-4 (W) |
Opponent | Score |
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Kaja Juvan | 6-4, 6-7, 6-3 (W) |
Amandine Hesse | 6-2, 6-2 (W) |
Lucrezia Stefanini | 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 (L) |
Gabriela Lee | 7-5, 6-3 (W) |
Coco Gauff | 6-1, 6-1 (L) |
Jasmine Paolini has a 1-0 lead. In order to win the championship, she defeated the Spaniard in the W100 Les Franqueses quarterfinal in Spain this October, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5. After competing against Amandine Hesse and Kaja Juvan in the qualifying rounds, Rebeka Masarova, who has since made her top-100 debut, is off to a winning start in Lyon.
Tournament | Winner | Score |
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2022 W100 Les Franqueses | Jasmine Paolini | 6-2, 4-6, 7-5 |
Jasmine Paolini and Rebeka Masarova will take on each other in the round of 32 of the 2023 WTA Lyon Open on February 1.
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