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Preview & Pick: Coco Gauff or Elina Svitolina to win the Rome title?
When Rome started, neither Gauff nor Svitolina looked ready to make a final-round run. Now, they’ll meet seemingly at the peak of their powers.
These two women illustrate one of the under-discussed effects of expanding the 1000s to two weeks: Now that the players have more time to build their games and their confidence match by match and day by day, they can go from out of form to very much in form during the span of a tournament.
When Rome started, neither Gauff nor Svitolina looked ready to make a final-round run.
The American had lost fairly early in Stuttgart and Madrid, and was distracted by off-court issues, to the point where, just a week ago, she looked dead in the water in the third round against Solana Sierra. But she battled through that match, then staged another miracle comeback against Iva Jovic, then survived a three-setter against Mirra Andreeva, until finally she looked her old Slam-winning self in her straight-set win over Sorana Cirtstea in the semis.
On 'unreal' night, Svitolina beats Swiatek to reach third Rome final
Elina Svitolina defeated Iga Swiatek in a thrilling semifinal match at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia, advancing to the final against Coco Gauff. Svitolina's resilience in saving break points and capitalizing on Swiatek's errors secured her victory.
There may be no two players more prolific at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia on the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz in recent years than Elina Svitolina and Iga Swiatek. The pair combined to win five titles in the last 10 editions of the tournament — but only one would return to the title match this year as they faced off in Thursday's semifinals.
And in the early hours past midnight on Friday at the Foro Italico, two-time champion Svitolina downed three-time winner Swiatek 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 to return to the title match for the first time since winning her back-to-back trophies in 2017-18. She will face Coco Gauff in the final — having beaten the American twice this year — as both women bid for their first WTA 1000 title of the season.
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Coco Gauff and Iga Świątek find similar progress in different results at Italian Open
Both players have started to find their feet on the clay leading up to the French Open. Getty Images
After nearly a year of relative chaos for two of the best tennis players in the world, clay is providing some stability under their feet.
When the Italian Open women’s final gets under way on Saturday, one player very familiar with success at the biggest clay-court tournaments will be there, and the other, despite her absence, is closer than ever to being where she needs to be ahead of the biggest of them all.
Coco Gauff, the defending French Open champion, will be on one side of the net. Iga Świątek, winner of four of the previous five championships at Roland Garros, almost made it but fell in three sets to an inspired Elina Svitolina, who simultaneously redlined and scrapped to a 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 win over a version of Świątek who is close to the player she wants to be, but not yet sure of being it on the biggest points. Svitolina saved 11 of 16 break points against Świątek, after saving 16 of 20 to beat world No. 2 Elena Rybakina in the previous round.
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