Matilde Paoletti

Biography

Matilde Paoletti was born on 4 March 2003 in Perugia. She is right-handed. She started playing tennis at the age of six and prefers clay courts.

As a junior, in 2020 she won a singles tournament in Porto Alegre and doubles at the J1 in Lambaré (with Asia Serafini), and at the junior Roland Garros of the same year she reached the round of 16 in singles.

On the senior tour she made her WTA debut in doubles in Palermo in 2021. In 2022 she won the ITF W25 title in Verbier. In 2023 she received a wild card into the singles draw of the WTA 1000 event in Rome, where she lost in the first round to Océane Dodin, and at the tournament in Florence she reached the quarterfinals, defeating the fifth seed Jule Niemeier and Nuria Brancaccio along the way, and lost to the eventual finalist Taylor Townsend. In July of the same year she rose to her highest singles ranking, No. 262. In 2024 she added the ITF W35 title in Santa Margherita di Pula.

In total, in singles Paoletti has 22 wins and 19 losses in the record up to 2022 and a title at a W25 tournament; she has so far not been able to rise above No. 262 in singles.

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