Tennis, Italians push the turnover of the Rome Internationals

As the Italians advance in the tournament draw, turnover at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia sets a new record. To date, with five more days of the tournament to play, the 2025 edition records 362,836 tickets sold, compared to 358,606 sold in total in the 2024 edition, when the Italian tennis players were missing from the roll-call.

After the record sales, the day of 13 May was marked by Italian tennis players. Jasmine Paolini is already in the semifinals of the Internazionali, while Lorenzo Musetti is in the quarters.

The Italian managed to end an almost three-hour battle just before the break, while the Carrara tennis player was stopped by rain on match point, only to resume three hours later to rejoice with his audience.

Paolini will be the fourteenth Italian to reach at least the semi-finals at the Internazionali d'Italia in the tournament's entire history. And now she is aiming for the big goal: that title that she won last year in doubles with Errani and that in singles has not been held by an Italian since 1985, when the tournament was played in Taranto. On that occasion Raffella Reggi won, joining Lucia Valerio in 1931 and Annelies Ullstein, a naturalised Italian, in 1950.

But before fighting for the dream there will be a semi-final to play, which Jasmine describes as 'a dream'. "I'm very happy," she adds after beating Diana Shnaider, the same opponent in the doubles final at the Paris Games, in three sets. "It was a very tough match that I started well, then there was a drop in intensity and luckily it rained in the second set where there was also coaching from Sara (Errani, ed.). My corner helped me a lot. The key was to come back lucidly - Paolini explained -. Now I have to keep in mind what happened today for the next match but I don't feel like the favourite for the final".