Internazionali BNL d'Italia - Rome

A WTA 1000 on outdoor clay in Rome, after Madrid with Strasbourg and Rabat on the later clay weeks. The clay plays slower than these players are used to and the serve earns little: holds sit at 62%, aces are rare and sets stretch without reaching a tiebreak, because the breaks get there first. Favourites still grind through. Svitolina has three titles here, Sharapova three as well.