Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini secured the first historic victory for Italian tennis at the Olympic Games.

On the clay of Court Philippe Chatrier, the pair (photo Simone Ferraro/CONI) completed an extraordinary journey at Paris 2024, winning the gold medal for Italy in women’s doubles. The comeback victory and 10-point tie-breaker win over Mirra Andreeva and Diana Shnaider, who competed as neutral individual athletes, secured gold with a score of 2-6, 6-1, 10-7 after a battle lasting one hours and 24 minutes.

An exciting journey was completed by the Italian duo, which began in the first round with an agile victory over New Zealand’s Routliffe/Sun (6-2 6-3). Then in the eighth round came a comeback victory over France’s Garcia/Parry (5-7 6-3 10-8), the prelude to a triumph in the quarter-finals over Britain’s Boulter/Watson (6-3 6-1). Then, in the semi-finals, the duo got the better of the Czech pair Muchova/Noskova (6-3 6-2), a match that launched them confidently towards today’s feat, with which they guaranteed the Italia Team its seventh gold medal at this Olympics (the 21st in total).

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