Mirra Andreeva Faces Baptiste in Madrid Semifinal for First Final
mirra andreeva met Hailey Baptiste in the Mutua Madrid Open semifinals on Thursday, and both players were chasing a first Madrid final. Andreeva arrived with a 1-0 head-to-head edge, including a 6-1, 6-3 win over Baptiste at Wimbledon in 2025.
Andreeva’s Madrid path
The 19-year-old reached her first Madrid semifinal by beating Panna Udvardy, Dalma Galfi, Anna Bondar and Leylah Fernandez. She had to manage a run that tightened late against Bondar, when she led 5-1 in the third set before Bondar came back to lead 6-5, then won in a tiebreak after saving set points against Fernandez in straight sets.
Andreeva also came in as the World No. 8, with a clay season already built on a title in Linz and a semifinal in Stuttgart. In Madrid, she became the youngest player to reach three consecutive quarterfinals at a single Tier I/WTA 1000 event since Martina Hingis in Miami from 1997-99.
Baptiste’s Sabalenka upset
Baptiste reached the last four after a 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 win over World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, saving six match points along the way. It was her first WTA 1000 semifinal and only her second semifinal at any tournament, matching the run she made in Abu Dhabi in February.
That result also made her the lowest ranked player to complete a comeback win on clay against the World No. 1 in the last 40 years. For Baptiste, the Madrid run already outpaced the ceiling of her previous biggest result, and it set up a rematch with the player who had beaten her cleanly at Wimbledon.
Madrid final on the line
The match was scheduled for 4:00 p.m., with Marta Kostyuk and Anastasia Potapova meeting in the other women’s semifinal. Kostyuk entered that match tied 2-2 in their head-to-head, while Potapova had lost their last meeting 6-3, 6-2 in the 2025 Madrid Round of 16.
For Andreeva, the task was simple: back up the recent clay results and turn a strong Madrid fortnight into a first final. Baptiste had already shown she could erase a top seed and survive a brutal finishing stretch; the semifinal decided whether that breakthrough became a title run or ended one round short.
