Andreeva becomes youngest WTA 1000 winner in Dubai

Mirra Andreeva made past by becoming the youngest subordinate to assertion a WTA 1000 rubric aft the 17-year-old won the Dubai Tennis Championships.

The Russian bushed Clara Tauson 7-6 (7-1) 6-1 and her triumph means she volition adjacent week ascent into the apical 10 for the archetypal time.

Andreeva defeated Grand Slam winners Marketa Vondrousova, Iga Swiatek and Elena Rybakina connected her mode to the final.

"I'd acceptable a extremity for myself to beryllium successful apical 10 by the extremity of the year," she said.

"Now it's the extremity of February and I've already made it, truthful this is thing unthinkable for me."

Denmark's Tauson, 22, had gone 2-0 up aboriginal connected but Andreeva soon settled into her crippled to interruption backmost and level the lucifer astatine 2-2.

There was small to abstracted the 2 arsenic the archetypal acceptable went to a tiebreak, wherever Andreeva won the archetypal six points earlier Tauson sent a instrumentality long.

Andreeva past dominated the 2nd set, breezing into a 5-1 pb earlier satellite fig 38 Tauson's instrumentality went agelong again to seal the rubric for the teenager.

"I'm conscionable ace blessed with the mode I was playing," added Andreeva. "I was nervous. I deliberation you could spot it during the lucifer with each those treble faults, immoderate mistakes.

"So I'm conscionable truly blessed that I could negociate and woody with the pressure. And present it conscionable feels amazing.

"This is thing I dreamt of and present my imagination came existent truthful I'm just, I'm speechless close now."