{"id":890618,"date":"2026-10-22T09:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890618\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T09:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:50:21","slug":"by-the-numbers-jovic-beats-paolini-for-second-time-to-reach-ningbo-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890618\/","title":{"rendered":"By the numbers: Jovic beats Paolini for second time to reach Ningbo quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No. 4 seed Iva Jovic rallied from a break down in the opening set to defeat former world No. 4 Jasmine Paolini in straight sets and reach the quarterfinals of the BNB Ningbo Open on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Paolini, a two-time Grand Slam finalist, broke early to take a 3-1 lead before Jovic found her rhythm. The American teenager broke twice to win the opening set 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Jovic moved two breaks ahead at 4-1 in the second set, but Paolini fought back to cut the deficit to 4-3. Jovic held serve before breaking again to close out a 6-4, 6-3 victory in 1 hour, 22 minutes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Job done \ud83d\udc83 Iva Jovic playing outstanding Tennis and booking her place in the quarterfinals! #NingboOpen https:\/\/t.co\/ICgfDZWsvA<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 wta (@WTA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WTA\/status\/2113159762669945194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">October 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are some notable numbers from Jovic\u2019s latest win:<\/p>\n<p>2: This was Jovic\u2019s second consecutive victory over Paolini. She also defeated the Italian in the third round of this year\u2019s Australian Open. The win levelled their head-to-head record at 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>7: Jovic has reached the quarterfinals of a WTA-level event for the seventh time this season. She advanced to the semifinals in five of her previous six quarterfinal appearances.<\/p>\n<p>20: Jovic\u2019s victory over Paolini, ranked No. 35 in the world, was her 20th career win against a Top 50 opponent.<\/p>\n<p>42: Jovic has recorded 42 tour-level victories in 2026, making it her most successful season on tour to date. Twenty-eight of those wins have come on hard courts.<\/p>\n<p>4: Jovic has a combined 4-0 record against her potential quarterfinal opponents, No. 6 seed Diana Shnaider and Alexandra Eala. She is 1-0 against Shnaider and 3-0 against Eala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No. 4 seed Iva Jovic rallied from a break down in the opening set to defeat former world&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428,1959],"class_list":["post-890618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}