{"id":95104,"date":"2026-01-05T07:45:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=95104"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:45:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T12:45:40","slug":"united-cup-day-5-predictions-paolini-jeanjean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2026\/01\/05\/united-cup-day-5-predictions-paolini-jeanjean\/","title":{"rendered":"United Cup Day 5 Predictions including Jasmine Paolini vs Leolia Jeanjean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/11\/19\/jasmine-paolini-2025-season-recap\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Jasmine Paolini&#8217;s<\/a> Team Italy and Team France both need a victory on Day 5 of the United Cup.\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Each team lost its opening tie against Team Switzerland, spearheaded by<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2026\/01\/04\/belinda-bencic-2025-season-recap\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">\u00a0last year&#8217;s Wimbledon semifinalist Belinda Bencic<\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0We at LWOT predict all the matches from that tie in this article, and the rest of the action, including Victoria Mboko vs Elise Mertens and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2026\/01\/05\/united-cup-day-5-predictions-de-minaur-mensik\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Alex de Minaur vs Jakub Mensik<\/a>, in separate pieces.<\/p>\n<h2>United Cup Day 5 Predictions<\/h2>\n<h4>Sara Errani\/Andrea Vavassori vs Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah\/Edouard Roger-Vasselin<\/h4>\n<p>Head-to-head: First meeting<\/p>\n<p>Roger-Vasselin has had a great doubles career, including men&#8217;s doubles and mixed doubles titles at the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/french-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">French Open<\/a>. However, it will be very challenging for him to inspire Team France to success here. Errani and Vavassori won last year&#8217;s French Open and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/category\/us-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">US Open<\/a> mixed doubles titles. The much less experienced Rakotomanga Rajaonah must step up and play excellently. Errani and Vavassori targeting her effectively and winning is the most likely outcome.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Errani\/Vavassori in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Flavio Cobolli vs Arthur Rinderknech<\/h4>\n<p>Head-to-head: Rinderknech 2-1 Cobolli<\/p>\n<p>Cobolli&#8217;s early-season conditioning will be tested here. He won an epic battle against<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/12\/19\/wawrinka-announces-he-will-retire-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"> Stan Wawrinka, who is retiring this year<\/a>, in a deciding set tiebreak. The Italian has been generally physically strong over the last few years and will have tried to build on that in the off-season. Although Rinderknech has played well against him before, I favor Cobolli in the pretty lively conditions in Perth.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Cobolli in 3<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a  id=\"j1VwcmK1RLp1TxTYxPFgsA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2254597287\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'j1VwcmK1RLp1TxTYxPFgsA',sig:'9RjdUhGDhVIGHSQ9uQmo98Uv1msrnqwAph1irQu-ytE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'2254597287',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4>Jasmine Paolini vs Leolia Jeanjean<\/h4>\n<p>Head-to-head: First meeting<\/p>\n<p>Paolini was nowhere near her best against Bencic. She has a better chance of winning this match with that level, although it would give Jeanjean a chance. The Frenchwoman is a fighter, but her best tennis is far worse than Paolini&#8217;s. Whether scrappy or impressive, the Italian losing this matchup would be very surprising.<br \/>\n<em>Prediction: Paolini in 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Susan Mullane-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jasmine Paolini&#8217;s Team Italy and Team France both need a victory on Day 5 of the United Cup.\u00a0Each team lost its opening tie against Team Switzerland, spearheaded by\u00a0last year&#8217;s Wimbledon semifinalist Belinda Bencic.\u00a0We at LWOT predict all the matches from that tie in this article, and the rest of the action, including Victoria Mboko vs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4708,"featured_media":68216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[9771,17008,10566,15504,17124,41796,15670,15901,5319,15728,17705,17706,475,15433,2373,2369,42902,42903,18442],"class_list":["post-95104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-predictions","tag-andrea-vavassori","tag-andrea-vavassori-predictions","tag-arthur-rinderknech","tag-arthur-rinderknech-predictions","tag-edouard-roger-vasselin","tag-edouard-roger-vasselin-predictions","tag-flavio-cobolli","tag-flavio-cobolli-predictions","tag-jasmine-paolini","tag-jasmine-paolini-predictions","tag-leolia-jeanjean","tag-leolia-jeanjean-predictions","tag-sara-errani","tag-sara-errani-predictions","tag-tennis-picks","tag-tennis-predictions","tag-tiantsoa-rakotomanga-rajaonah","tag-tiantsoa-rakotomanga-rajaonah-predictions","tag-united-cup-predictions"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95104"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95124,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95104\/revisions\/95124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}