Jasmine Paolini is an Italian tennis player. She reached career-high WTA rankings of No. 44 in singles and world No. 122 in doubles. Paolini has won one singles title (at the 2021 Slovenian Open) and one doubles title on the WTA Tour.
She has also won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour along with eight singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit.
Who is Jasmine Paolini’s coach?
Renzo Furlan is a former tennis player from Italy. Having turned professional in 1988, Furlan represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was defeated in the quarter-finals by India’s Leander Paes.
Four years earlier, when Barcelona hosted the Summer Olympics, he reached the third round, falling to Jordi Arrese of Spain: 4–6, 3–6, and 2–6. The right-hander reached his highest ATP singles ranking of World No. 19 in April 1996.
His best performance at a Grand Slam came when he got to the quarter-finals of the 1995 French Open, defeating Marcos Ondruska, David Rikl, Fernando Meligeni and Scott Draper before losing to Sergi Bruguera.
Key to Paolini’s rise has been coach Renzo Furlan, a former ATP World No.19. Furlan first collaborated with Paolini in 2015, but began working with her full-time in 2020 after his contract with the Serbian tennis federation came to an end.
His tactical focus and use of video analysis have been important, but his belief in her talent has also spurred her on.
“From the first days with her, her potential — both technical and aptitude — had been clear to me,” he told Super Tennis last month. “I’m not surprised at her current ranking.”
For Paolini, having someone in her corner who knows her so well has been crucial.
“I think we are also similar in parts of our characters,” she said. “How we think on the court – I have to plan everything to be good, I have to practice good, I have to feel good. He says he was like me – but that also sometimes you have to just go and enjoy, not to think about whether you practice well or eat well.”