No. 5 seed Jasmine Paolini survived a tough test from talented wild card Jule Niemeier to reach the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix quarterfinals for a second straight year, advancing 6-1, 7-5 after saving one set point in the second set.<\/p>\n
Stuttgart:\u00a0Draws<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>|\u00a0<\/strong>Scores<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>|<\/strong>\u00a0Order of play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Niemeier’s challenge was encapsulated by a point midway through the second set in which, hustling back to retrieve a Paolini lob, she pulled off a superb tweener. It had both pace and angle, and had Paolini at full stretch at net. The Italian was equal to the task, though, and managed to put away a volley winner to hold for 3-3.<\/p>\n Indeed, Paolini’s clutch play in the home stretch of the match was decisive. She had reeled off seven straight games against an error-strewn Niemeier to reach 6-1, 2-0, but had to work hard to hold off the home player’s attempted comeback. Niemeier broke Paolini back twice, but mishit a backhand on her set point. Paolini found her best groundstroke winners of the day to come through the last three games in a row.<\/p>\n Paolini advances to her second quarterfinal of 2025, and will face either No. 4 seed Coco Gauff or German lucky loser Ella Seidel next. Watch the ful highlights of her defeat of Niemeier below.<\/p>\n Paolini saves set point, holds off Niemeier to make Stuttgart quarters<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 5 seed Jasmine Paolini survived a tough test from talented wild card Jule Niemeier to reach the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,661,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-29378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114357220403229989","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}