This article on Jasmine Paolini is published in number 22-23 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until 3 June 2025.
In sport we seek almost everything, except the game: teachings, models, reasons of hope. We expect examples of exceptionalism that can apply to our ordinary life and ordinary boys and girls who perform extraordinary companies. Jasmine Paolini won the International of Italyboth the singular and the double with Sara Erraniin Rome, one of the most prestigious tennis tournaments in the world.
And us We have not only seen the talentcourage in the game, the optimal physical fitness that must align with all other conditions – the right coach, having slept well the night before, the weather of the moment. We saw the feat of a tennis player who is twenty -nine – the sporting equivalent of the middle age – and is exploded only in the last seasonafter the victory at WTA 1000 in Dubai, the final at Roland Garrosthe victory touched to Wimbledongold in pairs at Olympics.
And therefore we saw an epic, a hero that wins not because simply blessed by the talent but why He tried and tried us back And then, one day, when no one was expected, he made it. Jasmine Paolini, Tuscany, Italian father and Polish mother of Polish and Ghanaian origins, is 1.63 cm tall, even twenty centimeters less than her opponents. Since we are not talking about artistic gymnastics but of a sport in which the point is often decided by the service – a blow that literally comes “from above” – ​​the minute figure of Paolini represents a revenge, a overtaking, a victory against all the chancesthe possibility that perhaps one day we could happen to us too.
We do not know how many times they will have to say about Jasmine Paolini “small but immense”, “a giant in spite of the centimeters”. These are the phrases made of sport, but they are also the formulas that seal this event and what it means for the community: that hard work matters more than luckwhich with the commitment – exceptionally – can also be overcome disadvantageous conditions. A nice story.
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