No. 6 seed Mirra Andreeva prolonged her successful streak to 6 suits after defeating qualifier Alycia Parks 7-6(3), 6-3 within the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix 2nd spherical.
The champion final week in Linz, Andreeva is unbeaten on clay thus far this yr, and strikes into her 5th quarterfinal of 2026. There, she’ll face No. 3 seed Iga Swiatek — a two-time winner in Stuttgart — for the fourth time, and primary on clay.
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All 3 of Andreeva’s earlier conferences with Swiatek had been on laborious courts — a slender 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 loss within the 2024 Cincinnati quarterfinals, then back-to-back wins within the 2025 Dubai quarterfinals and Indian Wells semifinals en path to each titles.
The 18-year-old gave little away about her strategy to dealing with Swiatek for the primary time in 13 months.
“I can simply attempt to communicate with Conchita,” Andreeva stated. “Clearly she’s a really perfect participant, however I will simply means this fit as each different fit that I had earlier than. Clearly she’s had a excellent historical past on clay, so I am simply very curious to look how it is gonna move. Clearly that is clay indoors, so it is nonetheless somewhat bit other, however yeah, I am roughly excited to look how this fit will move on clay court docket for the primary time.”
In opposition to Parks, Andreeva used to be dealing with one of the crucial WTA Excursion Pushed by way of Mercedes-Benz’s greatest hitters for a 2nd spherical in a row, having dethroned protecting champion Jelena Ostapenko in her opener. She had dropped only one sport towards Parks of their simplest earlier assembly, within the first spherical of final yr’s US Open, however the International No. 95 driven her tougher of their clay-court rematch.
Andreeva broke Parks within the opening sport with an emphatic ruin, and thereafter most commonly stored her nostril in entrance — however that used to be a fight because the American stored on her heels, with the pair racking up 9 breaks of serve between them. Parks’ best passage of play got here as she compelled a tiebreak from 5-3 down within the first set, saving two set issues alongside the best way — the primary with an exquisitely spun drop shot.
On the other hand, she delivered an error-strewn tiebreak, encapsulating a competition during which she fired 21 winners but additionally dedicated 41 unforced mistakes. Andreeva, against this, stored her sport watertight with 10 winners to 6 unforced mistakes.
“I am simply tremendous proud of the best way I stayed composed,” Andreeva stated. “I felt like at some moments I used to be getting somewhat bit extra tight, as a result of for me, each level used to be essential whilst you play towards a majority of these unhealthy gamers.”