With this title, Paolini became the third Italian to win a WTA 1000 title, after Flavia Pennetta at 2014 Indian Wells and Camila Giorgi at 2021 Montreal.
After winning the 2024 Australian Open men's doubles title on Saturday, Indian tennis player Rohan Bopanna on Sunday set his future goals and said that the next tournaments are the Dubai Tennis Championship, Indian Wells and Miami Open.
It took one hour and 58 minutes for the second seed to clinch a spot in the final, saving one set point in the second set to triumph 6-3, 7-6(9) over seventh-seeded Zverev