Jasmine Paolini is like a “train,” and she will go full steam ahead to win the Wimbledon title on Saturday, according to her father.
The Italian’s “crazy” summer has seen her reach the French Open final, win her first ever Tour-level matches on grass, and now play her second Grand Slam final.
She will face No. 31 seed Barbora Krejcikova on Centre Court this afternoon.
Paolini was cheered on in her emotional semi-final by father Ugo, mother Jacqueline, and her younger brother Willliam.
And Ugo told Supertennis: “There is great happiness, even if for now I haven’t taken it all in. I haven’t yet taken in Paris and then I will think about Wimbledon. But it is a dream.
“We always believed in it, we always supported her. Above all her mother, who always took her everywhere,. Her character is like her mother’s—like a train. She has been like this since she was a child. When she gets something in her head, she goes full steam ahead. “
Ugo and Jacqueline met working in a bar in Tuscany after she had moved to Italy from Poland, her mother’s homeland.
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