Coco Gauff, Alexandra Eala to make team debut in Rome doubles event

The women’s doubles draw at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia was released Wednesday with one very intriguing wild card pairing. Introducing Team Ealauff? Or perhaps Team Cola?

As you might have guessed, 21-year-old Coco Gauff is joining forces with 19-year-old Alexandra Eala.

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Gauff has finished runner-up in the last two editions at the Foro Italico with two different partners—Jessica Pegula in 2023 and Erin Routliffe in 2024. For Eala, this marks her doubles debut at the WTA 1000 level.

The two meet Alexandra Panova and Fanny Stollar in their opener.

Defending champions Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini are set to run it back on home soil. The No. 3 seeds, who face Jiang Xinyu and Wu Fang-Hsien, lead the quarter that Gauff and Eala landed in.

Routliffe and Gabriela Dabrowski sit atop the draw, while Katerina Siniakova and Zhang Shuai occupy the bottom slot as the No. 2 seeds. Among the remaining combinations include sixth seeds Mirra Andreeva-Diana Shnaider, Daria Kasatkina-Peyton Stearns and Linda Noskova-Clara Tauson.