“I feel like I can play another two matches, I’m so full of energy. I’m so pumped up. I’m so happy.”
French Open champion Mirra Andreeva stormed past Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 6-0 to reach the last four of the WTA Finals on Wednesday as Elina Svitolina kept her bid on track with a three-set win over Karolina Muchova. Russian 19-year-old Andreeva held her nerve after falling behind 4-1 in the opening set — winning the last 11 games to seal the round-robin victory in just 62 minutes.
“Oh my God, I’m even happier than I was after my first match,” Andreeva said.
French Open champion Mirra Andreeva stormed past Aryna Sabalenka 6-4, 6-0 to reach the last four of the WTA Finals on Wednesday as Elina Svitolina kept her bid on track with a three-set win over Karolina Muchova.
Making her sixth straight Finals appearance, Sabalenka can still advance if she beats Svitolina in their final round-robin match on Friday. The increasingly demoralized Sabalenka had no answer. After the Belarusian smacked a backhand into the net to give her opponent match point Andreeva polished things off with a service winner. “I didn’t play as well. I just made some adjustments, tactical adjustments.
Andreeva crucially kept momentum on her side with a break for a 3-0 lead in the second set.
“I was not happy with the first set,” Svitolina said. “I think it helped me also to be more aggressive, because I was too passive in the first set,” Svitolina said.
