{"id":523783,"date":"2026-04-10T18:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/523783\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T18:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:23:07","slug":"andreeva-outlasts-cirstea-to-set-up-ruse-clash-in-linz-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/523783\/","title":{"rendered":"Andreeva outlasts Cirstea to set up Ruse clash in Linz semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"215\">Top seed Mirra Andreeva will face unseeded Elena-Gabriela Ruse in the semifinals of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz after both players earned three-set wins Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"217\" data-end=\"559\">Andreeva, chasing her second singles title of the year on the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz, faced Romanian veteran Sorana Cirstea. The teenager led the first set with an early break, but Cirstea rallied to force a tiebreak, which Andreeva won. Cirstea then surged ahead with a double break in the second set before closing it out 6-4.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"561\" data-end=\"745\">Andreeva responded by breaking early in the third set. Although Cirstea pulled it back to 3-2, Andreeva won three games in a row to seal a 7-6, 4-6, 6-2 victory in 2 hours, 17 minutes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"747\" data-end=\"1237\">Earlier in the day, Ruse advanced to her first career WTA 500 semifinal with a come-from-behind win over former champion Jelena Ostapenko. The fourth-seeded Latvian, who won the title in 2024 and finished runner-up in 2019, took the first set 6-4. Ruse broke early in the second set, and although Ostapenko leveled at 3-3, the Romanian regained control to take the set 6-4. Ruse carried that momentum into the decider, losing just one game to complete a 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 victory in 2 hours, 21 minutes.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1239\" data-end=\"1371\">Making her Linz debut this week, Ruse will be aiming to reach her third WTA singles final. Both of her previous finals also came on clay.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1373\" data-end=\"1515\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Andreeva and Ruse have met once before on tour, with Andreeva winning their third-round match at this year\u2019s Australian Open in straight sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top seed Mirra Andreeva will face unseeded Elena-Gabriela Ruse in the semifinals of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-523783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}