Mirra Andreeva absorbed everything Magda Linette threw at her in a tight opening set Monday night, then pulled away for a 7-6 (0), 6-1 win in 1 hour and 43 minutes to reach the third round in Doha for the first time.<\/p>\n
Doha:\u00a0Scores<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Draws<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Order of play<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cEvery time I play against Magda, it\u2019s always not easy,\u201d Andreeva said in her on-court interview. \u201cShe\u2019s an amazing fighter. She fights for every point. She puts a lot of balls back in the court. \u00a0When I saw I was going to be playing her, I was a little nervous because she\u2019s an amazing player, a great competitor and she\u2019s very experienced.<\/p>\n \u201cThank you, everyone, who stayed so late and watched our match. It really means a lot. It\u2019s not nice to play in an empty stadium, so thank you very much for the support.\u201d<\/p>\n The match wrapped just after 11 p.m. local time, and those who stayed to see the action on Centre Court saw Andreeva grind through a mentally and physically demanding first set before assuming full control.<\/p>\n After a 73-minute opener, the second set lasted just 30 minutes, with Andreeva winning nearly twice as many points — 29 to Linette\u2019s 15.<\/p>\n For more fast stats from the World No. 7\u2019s victory, we take you by the numbers:<\/p>\n 0: Points lost in the tiebreak. It\u2019s the first time Andreeva has claimed a tiebreak to love at the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz level.<\/p>\n 3: Wins against Linette. Andreeva now leads the head-to-head 3-1, earning her second straight win in the series. All three victories have come in straight sets.<\/p>\n 5: Set points saved in the opener. Before she could even reach the tiebreak, Andreeva had to erase five set points on her serve. As she often does, she steadied herself, held, and used the momentum she created to take over the match.<\/p>\n 10: Break points saved. Eight of the 10 came in the opening set, where Linette repeatedly pressured the Andreeva serve. The 18-year-old faced one final break point while serving for the match at 5-1 in the second set but answered with a lob winner and an ace to set up match point before closing it out.<\/p>\n 38: WTA 1000 match wins. Her 38-16 record puts her fifth among active players (minimum 10 matches) in win percentage at WTA 1000 events. Her 70.9%-mark trails only Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka, Victoria Azarenka and Victoria Mboko.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a chance Andreeva could see Mboko next, depending on whether the Canadian teenager gets past 41-year-old Vera Zvonareva in the second round.<\/p>\n Andreeva is 1-0 against Mboko after beating her in last month\u2019s Adelaide final. She has yet to face Zvonareva in her career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mirra Andreeva absorbed everything Magda Linette threw at her in a tight opening set Monday night, then pulled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428,1959],"class_list":["post-459838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}