Adolescent Mirra Andreeva overturned another seeded at the Dubai championships, upsetting Elena Rybakina on Friday to become the youngest player to reach the final of a WTA 1000 tournament. The 17-year-old Russian young woman retaliated from 1 to 3 in the decisive set to beat Rybakina 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 of the seventh head WTA 1000 in his career. Andreeva is the youngest player to beat several Grand Slam champions during a tournament of this level. She ousted Iga Swiatek, Marketa Vondrousova, and now Rybakina, en route to the final.
She waits for Clara Tauson or Karolina Muchova during the championship match on Saturday.
The players had met once before, in Beijing in 2023, when Rybakina won in three sets.
“The last time we played was a really difficult match,” said Andreeva.
“I had a lot of opportunities and she, as a really experienced player, did not give me a chance and made her photos and finally killed me.”
A punishing return of Andreeva earned him the first break of the match in the match five and despite the immediate response of Rybakina, the young Russian returned to the front and closed the opening set on the 46 -minute brand.
Having already saved six match points in his victory over Paula Badosa in the round of 16, Rybakina seemed ready to fight against Andreeva and the second set was a tight affair.
The pair remained in the elbow and the neck until Rybakina finds an opening when Andreeva is in double to meet two section points at 4-5. Andreeva rebounded the ball from the ground with frustration and received a warning from the code violation for ball abuse.
A few moments later, Rybakina took the match in a decisioner on a long defensive forehand by her opponent, while Andeva dropped his first tournament.
Rybakina took the first step in the third, breaking for an advantage of 3-1, but Andreeva reacted and swept the next five games to fill the victory in two hours and 15 minutes.
“I knew she was going to hit hard and hit great services,” said Andreeva. “I just tried to accept when things did not go in my way. I fought for each point and I continued to believe and, in the end, it went my way.”
Andreeva will reach a career in career 11 in the world because of the end of the final and could become the first 17 -year -old young man to break the top 10 since Nicole Vaidisova obtained this feat in 2007 if she raised the trophy on Saturday.
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