Errani and Paolini are Olympic doubles champions: historic gold for Italy on the clay of Paris

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).