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Olympic Champions Sara Errani And Jasmine Paolini Win French 0pen 2025Women’s Doubles Title
Italian tennis stars Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini clinched their first Grand Slam title as a team by winning the French Open 2025 women’s doubles crown.
Italian tennis stars Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini secured their maiden Grand Slam title as a duo by winning the French Open 2025 women’s doubles crown on Sunday. The second-seeded pair defeated Kazakhstan’s Anna Danielian and Serbia’s Aleksandra runic in a gripping three-set final, with a scoreline of6-4, 2-6, 6-1 on the clay courts of Roland Garros. french open
The victory adds to their growing legacy, coming just a year after they clinched Olympic gold in Paris 2024,also held at the iconic Roland Garros venue. Their latest triumph underscores their dominance on Clayland reaffirms their status as one of the top women’s doubles teams in the world.
The match saw both teams trade early breaks before Errani and Paolini took the first set. However, French open.
Danieline a 2022 Australian Open finalist and Kunihito back strongly in the second. But the Italians raised their level in the decider, breaking early and racing toa commanding 5-0 lead before closing out the set 6-1. french open
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For 38-year-old Sara Errani, the win marks an especially memorable tournament. Earlier this week, she also captured the French Open mixed doubles title with fellow Italian Andrea Vavasors, adding another trophy to her long and storied career.
Meanwhile, Jasmine Paolini who reached the singles and doubles finals at Roland Garros in 2024 bounced back from a fourth-round singles exit this year to claim her first major title.
With this win, the Olympic champions now hold a Grand Slam title, bolstering their standings in the WTA doubles rankings, where they are currently ranked sixth.
Both the men’s and women’s singles
champions will earn nearly $2.9 million for winning the French Open and hoisting the Coupe des Mousquetaires. The runner-up will pocket $1.45 million. The USA TODAY app gets you to the heart of the news
Fans in France can watch the Grand Slam live on France TV and Amazon Prime, with
coverage on TNT in the UK, while Eurosport hold the rights for the rest of Europe. In Australia, the French Open will be shown on Stan Sport and 9News, while for fans in India, Sony TEN is the place to watch every point
The Stade Roland Garros tennis cent reconstructed in Paris in the 1920s was named after him. It accommodates the French Open, one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments. Consequently, the tournaments officially called Les Internationaux de France de Roland-Garros (the “French Internationals of Roland Garros”).
He has reached 5 French Open finals (losing in 4 finals to Nadal, who is widely considered to be the greatest clay court player ever), and has won 6 Masters 1000 titles on clay from 16finals.
Last year’s US Open had the most lucrative prize pot in tennis history at $75 million -a15% increase on 2023 – while Wimbledon offered a tournament-record $65 million (£50million) in player prize money last year.
Nadal only lost four matches at the FrenchOpen in total, to Robin Söderling in the
fourth round in 2009, to Novak Djokovic in aquarterfinal in 2015 and a semifinal in 2021,and to Alexander Zverev in the first round in2024.
Three-time Slam champion Sinner is also
unbeaten in major finals and is on a 20-matchwinning streak at this level, having won theUS Open in September and the Australian
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Dates: 25 May-8 June Venue: Roland Garros
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Aryna Sabalenka said it “hurt to show such terrible tennis” in what she described as “the worst final I ever played” in her French Open loss to Coco Gauff.
World number one Sabalenka, bidding for a fourth major singles title, put in a frustrated and error-strewn performance in a 6-7 (5-7) 6-2 6-4loss to the American.
Sabalenka committed 70 unforced errors – the highest in any women’s singles main-draw match at this year’s Roland Garros.
The Belarusian has lost Successive Grand Slam finals, having been beaten in three sets by Madison Keys in the Australian Open showpiece in January.
Known for bringing hum our to her speeches -Sabalenka jokingly threatened to fire her team after her US Open final loss in 2023 – the 27-year-old became tearful in Paris as she apologized to them for her performance.
“It was honestly the worst tennis I’ve played in I don’t know how many months’ Sabalenka said.
“Conditions were terrible, and she simply was better in these conditions than me.
“I think I was overemotional and I didn’t really handle myself well.
Sabalenka also lost to Gauff in the New York final two years ago, despite taking the first set 6- 2.
In Paris, she led 4-1 40-0 in the first set but struggled to maintain that intensity on a windy Court Philippe Charrier.
A renowned big hitter and strong server, Sabalenka struggled for rhythm in the face of Gauff’s supreme athleticism, and could not keep her frustration in check.
“I cannot go out there every time against her in the finals of the Grand Slam and play such terrible tennis” Sabalenka added.
“It felt like a joke, honestly, like somebody from above was just there laughing saying, ‘let’s see if you can handle this’.
“Honestly, sometimes it felt like she was hitting the ball from the frame. Somehow magically the ball lands in the court, and you are kind of on the back foot.”