Top-seeded Mirra Andreeva won her second singles title of the season on the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz after rallying from a set down to defeat Austria\u2019s Anastasia Potapova in the final of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz on Sunday. The 18-year-old adds this WTA 500 title to her triumph in Adelaide in January, marking the fifth singles title of her career.<\/p>\n
Potapova starts strong before Andreeva rallies<\/p>\n
Potapova, who won the tournament in 2023, started strongly with an immediate break of serve and dominated the opening set 6-1. After the pair exchanged early breaks in the second set, Andreeva secured a crucial break in the fifth game and held on to take the set 6-4.<\/p>\n
The deciding set followed a similar pattern. Andreeva broke first to lead 3-2, but Potapova broke back to level at 3-3. Andreeva responded with another break for 4-3 and, after holding serve, broke once more to seal a 1-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory in 1 hour, 54 minutes. The teenager ended the match with 32 winners to 35 unforced errors while Potapova hit 30 winners and 42 unforced errors.<\/p>\n
Andreeva improves to 3-1 against Potapova<\/p>\n
The win improves Andreeva\u2019s record against Potapova to 3-1, including three consecutive victories. Potapova, the first Austrian representative to reach the Linz final since the event joined the WTA Tour in 1991, falls to 3-4 in WTA singles finals, while Andreeva improves to 5-1.<\/p>\n
Andreeva, who also moves to 9-0 against players ranked outside the top 50 this year, has now won two singles titles on clay in her career (after WTA 250 Iasi in 2024).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top-seeded Mirra Andreeva won her second singles title of the season on the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-602588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}