Svitolina beats Gauff to make a hat trick at the WTA 1000 in Rome

The Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina won this Saturday 6-4, (3)6-7 and 6-2 against the American Cori ‘Coco’ Gauff in the final of the Rome tournament, in the WTA 1000 category and which is played on clay, and has thus achieved her third title in the capital of Italy, after those of 2017 and 2018.

In the final match of this Internazionali BNL d’Italia 2026, Svitolina conceded an early break and lost her serve again when she had tied the score, and even in the seventh game she saved three breaking points. Then he changed the chip, broke the rival’s serve and went 5-4, having nullified Gauff’s three other break opportunities.

To make matters worse, the American player accused him and immediately lost her serve, giving up the first set after an hour stuck and seeing how Svitolina in the second set no longer conceded break points. Of course, Gauff saved several against and was encouraged with a 15-40 for her in the eleventh game; She achieved that ‘break’, although the Ukrainian returned it to her.

So then they decided on sudden death, with complete equality until Svitolina missed two points in a row on her third turn of serve and could no longer lift that scenario (3-7). Despite that, the Ukrainian broke the rival’s serve as soon as the third set began and, solid on serve, already accelerated towards victory, which she sealed after almost three hours of play.