The only thing that slowed Mirra Andreeva on Saturday in Indian Wells was a pre-match delay caused by a broken net on Stadium 2.<\/p>\n
Once a new net was installed, Andreeva spent the rest of the evening avoiding it, as she bageled Solana Sierra in under 30 minutes in the opening set and completed a flawless 6-0, 6-0 win in 50 minutes to open her title defense and reach the third round.<\/p>\n
Indian Wells:\u00a0Scores<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Draws<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Order of play<\/a><\/p>\n The victory also marked her 100th main-draw win at the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz level, making her the youngest player (18 years, 309 days at the start of the tournament) to reach the milestone since Coco Gauff at the 2023 Australian Open.<\/p>\n \u201cI always see posts on Instagram, and you know, people just post, \u2018Oh, Novak (Djokovic) got his 500th win on tour,\u2019\u201d Andreeva said in her on-court interview. \u201cI\u2019m like, I wonder when I\u2019m going to get at least to 50 and now you\u2019re telling me that (this is) my 100th win. So yeah, it\u2019s amazing, super special to hear, and I hope I\u2019m not going to stop here and I\u2019m gonna keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s her second straight third round appearance at the BNP Paribas Open and she now owns a 1-0 record against Sierra after their first meeting at the WTA Tour level. As far as bragging rights go, Andreeva should have plenty ahead of any future meetings: she was rock-solid in every phase of this one, while Sierra never found her best level.<\/p>\n For reference, here\u2019s a quick stat comparison:<\/p>\n Category First serves won Second serves won Unforced errors Break points won Total points won All four of Sierra\u2019s break-point chances came while trailing 4-0 in the opening set, but Andreeva rattled off four straight points before holding for 5-0. Then, already up 2-0 in the second set, Andreeva went on another run — this time of 10 straight points — to set up a hold for 5-0, which she sealed with a trademark backhand winner.\u00a0<\/p>\n Moments later, she broke Sierra for the sixth and final time to close out the win and become the first player to record a 6-0 6-0 victory in women\u2019s singles at Indian Wells since Victoria Azarenka defeated Magdalena Rybarikova in 2016.<\/p>\n She is also the first player to win 6-0 6-0 in a WTA-level main-draw match this season.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The only thing that slowed Mirra Andreeva on Saturday in Indian Wells was a pre-match delay caused by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428,1959],"class_list":["post-510514","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\/510514","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=510514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAndreeva
\nSierra<\/p>\n
\n68%
\n19%<\/p>\n
\n81%
\n38%<\/p>\n
\n10
\n27<\/p>\n
\n6\/9
\n0\/4<\/p>\n
\n54
\n21<\/p>\n