Paolini reveals the reason for her results crisis in 2026

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Jasmine Paolini has found a small ray of hope at Wimbledon 2026 amid a worrying season in terms of results. Despite falling in the quarterfinals against Marta Kostyuk, the Italian tennis player has returned to the final rounds of a major tournament and has spoken in a press conference about the mental issues that have been haunting her for months.

In recent months, Paolini has suffered a foot injury that has prevented her from playing at her best, but this result crisis goes back much further, and her mental mistrust is largely to blame. "Last year, in the last months, I played very well. I think it's more about how I feel mentally on the court. In the last few months, I didn't train much because of the foot, but it also influences the brain; it's what makes you run more or be more explosive. Do you understand? My explosiveness is there. In some matches, it's there; in others, it's not. Today, it wasn't. So it's not the physical part, it's more the mental part," she revealed.

Paolini finds the key to smile again

Jasmine is one of the happiest and most cheerful players on the circuit, so it hurts to see that she has lost that smile in recent times, something she plans to change. "At Wimbledon, I felt good on the court and mentally I felt good. I will talk with my team, but the goal, as I said before, is to have this kind of positivity on the court, this mentality, because I realized in this tournament that mentality is fundamental in this sport. It is the engine of everything, of the physical and technical part. That is the main goal: to feel this way for the rest of the season.

For now, this is a great first step for the second half of the year, as once she has recovered from the foot, she has time to reverse the situation and regain the lost ground that has caused her to plummet in the rankings. If Paolini smiles again, the tennis world smiles with her.

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