ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA — Third seed Mira Andreeva fell behind 0-3 in Saturday’s Adelaide Worldwide last, however got here again to win 9 video games in a row and defeated Victoria Mboko 6-3, 6-1 in 12 of her final 13 matches.
The match featured the one participant below the age of 20 within the high 20 on the WTA Tour. Andreeva is eighteen years previous and Mboko is nineteen years previous.
The Canadian led 3-0 within the first set earlier than Andreeva tied the rating, scored 13 straight factors and dominated the remainder of the set and match.
Trailing 3-0 within the second set, Mboko took a medical timeout to have his blood stress and pulse checked. She got here again and received the primary recreation of the second set, however Andreeva shut out the match three video games later.
This was Andreeva’s fourth WTA title.
“I have been working towards quite a bit,” Andreeva mentioned.
Mboko rapidly established himself close to the highest of the rankings, profitable two profession titles: the WTA 1000 Canadian Open in Montreal final 12 months and the WTA 250 Hong Kong Open.
She has moved as much as a career-high sixteenth place forward of Monday’s Australian Open debut, the place she’s going to face one other Australian teenager, Emerson Jones.
Mboko mentioned, “I am dissatisfied that I wasn’t one hundred pc, however I wish to ship an enormous congratulations to Mila, who performed nice tennis as we speak, and naturally to her staff.”
Andreeva opens the Australian Open on Monday in opposition to Donna Vekic. Andreeva has reached the fourth spherical at Melbourne Park every of the previous two years.
Within the subsequent males’s last in Adelaide, Thomas Machak was to face Hugo Humbert.
