Paolini improves to a 3-2 head-to-head against Gauff, moving into her third WTA 1,000 semifinal of 2025, after winning her home Italian Open in May. Paolini, the current French Open doubles champion, will face Veronika Kudermetova of Russia Sunday.

Jasmine Paolini advanced to the quarterfinals of the Cincinnati Open with a straight-sets win over Barbora Krejcikova, and the Italian was in a playful mood in her on-court interview

Who knows if Jannik Sinner, as a child, loved fairy tales or was too caught up in his daydreams of a future as world number 1. Certainly, on his 24th birthday, the defending champion of