Top five youngest players to win a WTA 1000 match

Andreeva became the third youngest player to win a main draw match at WTA 1000 level.

Mirra Andreeva is among the few players under the age 16 to defeat a top 20 player at the WTA 1000. The victory stands out to be one of the most impressive match of the season. Andreeva, except losing the Australian Open Girls Finals, has won every professional match she has played in 2023 and received a wildcard in Madrid after winning two consecutive ITF tournaments. The 16-year-old is making a name for herself already at this young stage.

WTA 1000 (Beijing, Indian Wells, Madrid, Miami) earlier referred as the WTA Premier Mandatory Tournaments, these four were rebranded to WTA 1000 in 2021 to make the classification in line with the ATP events. These four are mandatory for anyone qualified and able to play. WTA 1000 tournaments are a category of tennis tournaments on the WTA Tour, which are managed and governed by the Women's Tennis Association.

Not all players have what it takes to put the whole soul, but these five blooming young guns proved they have a step up in the game.

5. Belinda Bencic

Belinda Bencic has won eight singles titles, including a gold medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and two doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She struggled in the first half of 2015, though in the latter half she levelled up and reached the fourth round at both the Indian Wells Open and the Miami Open. At the BNP Paribas Open , she notably won a match against No. 4 Caroline Wozniacki 6-4 6-4, the highest-ranked player she had ever defeated at the time and was just 18 when she conquered the win.

4. Amanda Anisimova

Anisimova has won two WTA Tour titles and reached three WTA finals. On the WTA Tour, Anisimova rose to fame at the 2018 BNP Paribas Opens at Indian Wells. She became the youngest player to reach the fourth round since Nicole Vaidišová in 2005. Anisimova defeated No. 9, Petra Kvitová 6-2 6-4, which ended Kvitová's 14-match winning streak.

3. Mirra Andreeva

Mirra Andreeva has a career-high singles ranking by WTA of No. 194, achieved on 24 April 2023. The 15-year-old, recently bagged her first main draw win on the WTA Tour after defeating 2021 US Open finalist Leylah Fernandez 6-3, 6-4 in the first round of the Mutua Madrid Open. Andreeva became the third youngest player to win a main-draw match at a WTA 1000 tournament, behind Coco Gauff and CiCi Bellis. She added a feather in her cap by being the only second 15-year-old to defeat a Top 50 opponent at a WTA 1000 tournament.

2. Cici Bellis

In early 2018, Catherine Cartan Bellis became the second youngest player in the top 100 of the WTA rankings after beating Zarina Diyas 6-2 6-1 at Miami Opens. Bellis has a career-high of 35, which she achieved in August 2017. She is known for winning a match at the 2014 US Open as a 15-year-old against a top-20 opponent, making her the youngest match-winner at the US Open since 1996. In her WTA Tour-level debut, CiCi Bellis upset 12th seed Dominika Cibulková 6-1 4-6 6-4, who was the runner-up at the Australian Open earlier in that year.

1.Coco Gauff

Cori Dionne, known as "Coco" Gauff, is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of world No. 4 in singles and world No. 1 in doubles. Gauff won her first WTA Tour singles title at the 2019 Linz Open aged 15 years, a three-set victory over 2017 French Open winner Jelena Ostapenko making her the youngest singles title holder on the Tour since 2004. She has won three WTA Tour singles titles and eight doubles title. Gauff rose to prominence with a win over former World No. 1 and seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams in the opening round of 2019 Wimbledon. Just a week after turning 15 years old she defeated McNally at Miami open 3-6 6-3 6-4.