Dubai Tennis Championships 2025: Mirra Andreeva thrashes Iga Swiatek to seal maiden semi-final spot

Andreeva became the youngest semi-finalist at the Dubai Tennis Championships 2025.

WTA and upsets are a match made in heaven. The ongoing Dubai Tennis Championships 2025 features just one top-10 seed in the final four. The latest player to be knocked out from the race was World Number Two Iga Swiatek. Despite good form, the Pole had no answers to Mirra Andreeva‘s sensational blitz, which knocked the 4-time Grand Slam winner out of the event.

Andreeva, who is only 17 years old, triumphed 6-3, 6-3, to become the youngest semifinalist in Dubai’s 24-year history. Iga Swiatek took their only previous match last August in Cincinnati, losing the first set and winning 7-5 in the third. She conceded the first again and was a break up in the second, but the Russian won five straight games in the end.

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Since 2017, Andreeva is also the youngest to claim her fifth victory over a WTA top-10 player. This is also her second win over a World Number Two, with her previous win being against Aryna Sabalenka, at the French Open quarter-finals last year.

Mirra Andreeva has beaten both Iga Swiatek and Aryna Sabalenka before turning 18 years old. This young lady is just built different. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/uVa8Qbhh4I

— The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) February 20, 2025

“I was nervous before the match,” No. 14-ranked Andreeva said. “I told myself I played great in our last match and I just need to keep playing aggressively.”

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“For sure it’s a calendar thing. We’re not going to be able to be consistent for many years playing week-by-week,” Swiatek told reporters when asked if playing back-to-back WTA 1000 tournaments was a tricky challenge.

“Also it’s not like some time ago that outside of top-20 players, they were just getting destroyed more. Now anybody can win these tournaments. It has been like that for a couple of years”, added Swiatek, after the disappointing defeat. Mirra Andreeva will now fight for a spot in the finale of the Dubai Open and is set to face 2020 finalist, Elena Rybakina.

Rybakina, saved six match points in her round of 16 contest against Paula Badosa, to register one of her best victories in recent memory. The Kazakh’s performance on-court is commendable, given the controversy surrounding her former coach Stefano Vukov, who had been provisionally suspended by the WTA Tour pending an investigation into a breach of their code of conduct.

The winner of the clash between Elena Rybakina and Mirra Andreeva will take on the victor of Clara Tauson vs Karolina Muchova. Regardless of the outcome, Dubai is set to crown a new champion. Meanwhile, defending champion Jasmine Paolini and top seeds Aryna Sabalenka, Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, and Qinwen Zheng have all been eliminated from the tournament.

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