Mirra Andreeva set to become youngest player to reach top 10 of WTA rankings since 2006 after Dubai Tennis Championships title

By lifting the Dubai Tennis Championships event, Mirra Andreeva has also become the youngest WTA-1000 title winner.

Mirra Andreeva made quite the leap from winning the Iasi Open, an ATP 250 event, last season to claiming the WTA 1000 Dubai Tennis Championships in 2025. The Russian prodigy is in good company, with the likes of Grand Slam champions Venus Williams and Barbora Krejcikova among those who won their first WTA 1000 title in Dubai.

The 17-year-old Andreeva is also the first teen to claim the Dubai Tennis Championships trophy on the WTA Tour. She is the second teenager after Rafael Nadal in 2006 to claim the singles trophy at the event. Among the other accolades she has netted this week, she is the youngest finalist (17 years and 298 days) and youngest champion (17 years and 299 days) since the format’s introduction in 2009.

Courtesy of her title run in the Middle East; the teenager will rise to the World No. #9 position on Monday. Andreeva (17 years and 301 days) will become the youngest player among the top 10 since Nicole Vaidisova (17 years and 106 days) in August 2006. She is also the first Russian to hold aloft the trophy in Dubai since Elena Dementieva in 2008.

17,301 – At 17 years and 301 days, Mirra Andreeva on Monday will become the youngest player to be part of the top-10 since Nicole Vaidisova (17 years and 106 days) on 7 August 2006. Ascend. #DDFTennis | @DDFTennis @WTA @WTA_insider pic.twitter.com/H8EdLzP2tr

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The 2025 Australian Open semi-finalist broke into the top 20 after making the finals of the Ningbo Open last season. Andreeva extended Elena Rybakina’s title drought when she defeated the Kazakh No. #6 seed 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 in the WTA Dubai Tennis Championships semi-finals, winning the last five games in a row from 3-1 down in the decider.

Andreeva claimed the biggest title of her career by defeating Clara Tauson 7-6(1), 6-1 to win the WTA 1000 Dubai Tennis Championships on Saturday night. Her compatriot, Andrey Rublev, ensured a clean sweep by the Russians when he defeated Jack Draper in Doha.

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The Russian dominated the week, not putting a foot wrong and not dropping a set until the meeting with Rybakina. It was the only set she let go at the week-long event. Andreeva overcame three Grand Slam champions en route to the title – Marketa Vondrousova, Iga Swiatek and Elena Rybakina.

Andreeva, whose goal is to make the top five this season, could not indulge in the traditional glass of champagne as she is still two months away from turning eighteen. Given the prodigious Russian’s talent, a second trophy of the 2025 season is near certain.

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