{"id":799539,"date":"2026-10-11T21:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T21:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799539\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T21:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T21:56:31","slug":"andreeva-cruises-into-beijing-final-with-dominant-win-over-surprise-package-bartunkova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799539\/","title":{"rendered":"Andreeva cruises into Beijing final with dominant win over surprise package Bartunkova"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mirra Andreeva breezed into the China Open final on Saturday, brushing aside Nikola Bartunkova 6-2, 6-2, and will play either home hope Qinwen Zheng or Belgium’s Elise Mertens for the title.<\/p>\n

“I wanted to play aggressive today,” said the 19-year-old Russian, ranked five in the world.<\/p>\n

Andreeva<\/a> raced into a 4-0 lead in the first set in Beijing as 34th-ranked Bartunkova<\/a> double-faulted twice before giving away the fourth game.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old Czech made 20 unforced errors across the 74-minute match and was outplayed by the French Open champion, who sent down 27 winners.<\/p>\n

Bartunkova saved the first match point but Andreeva triumphed on the second without much more fuss<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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“She’s a very tricky opponent to play against… she sometimes manages to hit rockets out of nowhere,” Andreeva said.<\/p>\n

“I tried to be brave no matter what,” she said, adding that she calmed some nerves by playing the card game Uno with her coach before the semi-final.<\/p>\n

At four Andreeva is the highest-seeded player left in the tournament after a run of upsets saw the departures of Elena Rybakina<\/a>, Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> and Coco Gauff<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mirra Andreeva breezed into the China Open final on Saturday, brushing aside Nikola Bartunkova 6-2, 6-2, and will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-799539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799539","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=799539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}