Mirra Andreeva defeated Yue Yuan in the round of 64 at the WTA 1000 tournament in Beijing 3-6, 6-0, 6-0 and advanced to the round of 32. For the Russian, seeded fourth at the tournament, this was her first match in Beijing. The hard-court event has a prize money of $9,4 million.
Two sets without conceding a game
The first set went to Yue Yuan: 6-3 in her favor. After that, the match turned around. Andreeva took the second set 6-0 and won the third by the same score. In the last two sets, she did not give her opponent a single game.
3-6, 6-0, 6-0: the match result according to api.tennisapi.tennis
There was a clear ranking gap between the opponents: Andreeva is fifth with 5731 points, while Yue Yuan is 147th with 482 points. The Chinese player was unseeded and in the round of 128 defeated Alexandra Oliynykova 6-2, 6-3. The head-to-head now stands at 1:0 in Andreeva's favor.
Before Beijing, Andreeva played in Singapore: in the second round she beat Alexandra Sasnovich 6-2, 6-2, and in the quarterfinal she lost to Leylah Fernandez 2-6, 5-7.