{"id":346140,"date":"2025-08-15T09:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346140\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T09:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:07:10","slug":"jasmine-paolini-gives-her-honest-thoughts-on-coco-gauff-as-a-person-and-a-player-ahead-of-their-cincinnati-open-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346140\/","title":{"rendered":"Jasmine Paolini gives her honest thoughts on Coco Gauff as a person and a player ahead of their Cincinnati Open match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jasmine Paolini\u2019s patented smile has remained all throughout her time in Cincinnati thus far, and with good reason, given how well she is playing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Italian is enjoying an impressive year, following up a landmark 2024 with a series of solid results that culminated in that Masters 1000 title in Rome.<\/p>\n

There, she overcame Coco Gauff<\/a> in a hard-fought affair, proving her prowess on the clay.<\/p>\n

However, things will be completely different when they next meet, poised to do battle for a spot in the Cincinnati Open<\/a> semi-finals.<\/p>\n

Ahead of that match, and just after she had swept aside Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 in remarkably comfortable fashion, Paolini previewed the showdown.<\/p>\n

Jasmine Paolini previews her match against Coco Gauff<\/strong><\/p>\n

First speaking about Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1, who she had just beaten 6-1, 6-2, the 29-year-old was magnanimous in her on-court interview.<\/p>\n

She admitted: \u201cI know, I think she wasn\u2019t 100%, but she\u2019s an unbelievable player, it\u2019s always tough to have to play against her, and she has a huge talent. She can put the ball wherever she wants, every time. I don\u2019t know how she does this.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019m happy that I stayed there mentally until the last point because it wasn\u2019t easy, you know, and I tried my best. I think I played a great match.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then asked about Gauff and how she might be able to trouble her on these hard courts rather than clay, she joked: \u201cI don\u2019t know. Maybe I should play like I play on a clay court.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paolini then offered a more serious assessment of her upcoming opponent: \u201cIt\u2019s tough to play here. It\u2019s so different here, so fast, so yeah, a couple of years ago, I won five games, so I hope to do better. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s a great player, great personality, great person as well. We\u2019ll try to have a good match, a quality match, and we\u2019ll see, you know, it\u2019s always nice to play against a champion like Coco.\u201d<\/p>\n

She has every right to fear the 21-year-old, with Gauff now rivalling a Martina Hingis record<\/a> due to her form in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n

Jasmine Paolini\u2019s head-to-head record vs Coco Gauff<\/strong><\/p>\n

Interestingly, these two top-ten players have a head-to-head currently locked at two wins apiece, and therefore, this next match will see one pull ahead of the other.<\/p>\n

And, based on their historic match-ups, it\u2019s hard not to favour Gauff.<\/p>\n

She has enjoyed far more success on these surfaces than Paolini, and as a former title-holder in Cincinnati, boasts pedigree at this particular venue too.<\/p>\n

That would therefore explain why she won the first two meetings of this particular head-to-head, in Adelaide and Cincinnati.<\/p>\n\nYear<\/strong><\/td>\nEvent<\/strong><\/td>\nRound<\/strong><\/td>\nWinner<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2025<\/td>\nItalian Open<\/td>\nFinal<\/td>\nJasmine Paolini<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2025<\/td>\nStuttgart Open<\/td>\nQuarter-finals<\/td>\nJasmine Paolini<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2023<\/td>\nCincinnati Open<\/td>\nQuarter-finals<\/td>\nCoco Gauff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2021<\/td>\nAdelaide International<\/td>\nFirst Round<\/td>\nCoco Gauff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Jasmine Paolini\u2019s head-to-head record vs Coco Gauff<\/p>\n

However, based on more recent form against one another, Paolini would be favoured, having beaten Gauff twice in 2025, though both wins came on clay.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to distinguish between the two, but we are promised an energetic affair between two of the WTA\u2019s top players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jasmine Paolini\u2019s patented smile has remained all throughout her time in Cincinnati thus far, and with good reason,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[107663,6740,14647,79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-346140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-cincinnati-open","9":"tag-coco-gauff","10":"tag-jasmine-paolini","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115031995020636071","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346140","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=346140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}