April 28, 2025
The two youngest players in the Top 30, Coco Gauff and Mirra Andreeva, will face each other for the third time in the Mutua Madrid Open quarterfinals.
No. 4 seed Gauff won the latest instalment of her back-and-forth rivalry with Belinda Bencic 6-4, 6-2 to book her place in the last eight of Madrid for the first time. The 20-year-old has now reached the quarterfinals of every WTA 1000 tournament on the current calendar except Miami.
Just after the American wrapped up her win, No. 7 seed Andreeva followed with a 6-1, 6-4 defeat of qualifier Yuliia Starodubtseva to return to the quarterfinals for a second year in a row. Andreeva is already a two-time WTA 1000 champion this year, having lifted the trophies in Dubai and Indian Wells, and will celebrate her 18th birthday on Tuesday.
Minutes after Gauff’s match point, the tournament was hit by widespread power outages across Spain, confirmed by the electricity grid operator, Red Eléctrica. The power cut occurred as Andreeva was serving for the match, but she managed to save four break points to get over the line before play was paused on all courts.
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