Jasmine Paolini ended Italy’s 40-year wait for another home women’s winner at the Italian Open as she beat Coco Gauff to lift the trophy and with it came a big points tally and handy prize winner’s cheque.
Finalists Paolini and Gauff scored rankings boosts ahead of the French Open while 2024 champion Iga Swiatek was effectively -935 after her early exit from the clay-court tournament.
But it was a day for the home fans at Foro Italico as Paolini defeated her American opponent 6–4, 6–2 to win her second WTA 1000 title and third career title.
She is only the second Italian woman after Raffaella Reggi in 1985 to win the tournament in the Open Era. It is also her first title since she lifted the Dubai Tennis Championships trophy in February 2024 with her other tournament win coming at the 2021 Slovenia Open.
But how many points and how much money did Paolini and her fellow competitors earn in Rome?
WTA Points Earned In Rome
WTA 1000 winners earn 1,000 points, but from the previous year are deducted from their rankings. There is good news for Paolini as she lost in the second round in 2024 so she only dropped 10 points and will add a massive 990 points to her WTA Rankings tally.
With the win, Paolini will move up to fourth in the rankings, moving ahead of Swiatek.
Gauff reached the semi-final last year so had 390 points to defend, resulting in her adding 260 (650-390) to her total. Her move up to No 2 in the rankings was confirmed before the final.
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Zheng Qinwen and Peyton Stearns were the semi-finalists and the former added 175 while the American didn’t compete in Rome last year, but will leave with 363 points as she had 27 points from the 2024 WTA 125 Saint Malo event. Stearns will climb to a new career-high No 28 with her last-four run.
Quarter-finalists earn 215 points and Aryna Sabalenka, Mirra Andreeva, Diana Shnaider and Elina Svitolina exited at this stage, but Sabalenka left with -435 as she finished runner-up last year.
Andreeva (205), Shnaider (85) and Svitolina (95) added some points.
What about the other high-profile players?
Emma Raducanu enjoyed her best-ever run at the Italian Open as she reached the fourth round before losing to Gauff. She gets the full complement of 120 points as she didn’t play last year.
Defending champion Swiatek lost a round earlier and was thus unable to defend her points from last year so will be -935 (1,000-65) when the rankings are updated on Monday, dropping to fifth.
Rising star Alex Eala lost in the first round, but didn’t earn any points as she was defending points from a 2024 ITF event.
WTA Prize Money Earned In Rome
As per the official WTA website, the winners earned €877,390 (roughly $1m) so she will almost double her 2025 prize money earnings as she was on $1,217,537 before the tournament. Her career total is $9,765,349.
Gauff – 19th in the all-time prize-money earning list, secured a cheque of €456,935 ($525,475) while Zheng and Stearns went home with €240,380 ($276,437).
Sabalenka, Andreeva, Shnaider and Svitolina are €124,700 ($143,405) richer after the tournament while Raducanu and the other fourth-round losers earned €66,110 ($76,027).
Swiatek, who has earned more than $35m during her playing career, secured a cheque of €38,313 ($44,060) while Eala received €13,150 ($15,123).
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