{"id":77384,"date":"2025-02-21T09:14:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T04:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=77384"},"modified":"2025-02-21T09:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T04:14:20","slug":"17-year-old-mirra-andreeva-upsets-iga-swiatek-to-reach-dubai-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/17-year-old-mirra-andreeva-upsets-iga-swiatek-to-reach-dubai-semifinal\/","title":{"rendered":"17-year-old Mirra Andreeva upsets Iga Swiatek to reach Dubai semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai<br \/>\nMirra Andreeva stunned World No. 2 Iga Swiatek on Thursday, securing a 6-3, 6-3 victory to reach her first WTA 1000 semifinal at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.<br \/>\nThe 17-year-old No. 12 seed recorded her second career win over a Top 2 player in under a year, having defeated then-No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka at Roland Garros.<br \/>\nIn a rematch of their Cincinnati Open clash, Andreeva avenged her three-set loss to Swiatek, closing out the quarterfinal in 96 minutes.<br \/>\nAndreeva, playing her third match in two days due to rain delays, showed no signs of fatigue.<br \/>\nShe broke Swiatek early and maintained control, brushing off a video review that overturned a key point in the first set.<br \/>\nSwiatek, who had notched dominant wins over Victoria Azarenka and Dayana Yastremska, led 3-1 in the second set before Andreeva won five consecutive games to seal the match.<br \/>\nAndreeva will face either No. 6 seed Elena Rybakina or Sofia Kenin in the semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai Mirra Andreeva stunned World No. 2 Iga Swiatek on Thursday, securing a 6-3, 6-3 victory to reach her first WTA 1000 semifinal at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. The 17-year-old No. 12 seed recorded her second career win over a Top 2 player in under a year, having defeated then-No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":77396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77397,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77384\/revisions\/77397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}