{"id":13497,"date":"2026-04-28T19:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/13497\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T19:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T19:37:07","slug":"mirra-andreeva-reaches-madrid-open-2026-semifinals-after-leylah-fernandez-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/13497\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirra Andreeva Reaches Madrid Open 2026 Semifinals After Leylah Fernandez Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mirra Andreeva is heading to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/news\/4495113\/andreeva-grits-through-tough-fernandez-test-to-make-madrid-semis\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/news\/4495113\/andreeva-grits-through-tough-fernandez-test-to-make-madrid-semis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Madrid Open 2026 semifinals<\/a> after passing one of her toughest tests of the tournaments against <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/alex-eala-stuttgart-open-first-round-loss-fernandez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Leylah Fernandez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Andreeva earned a 7-6(1), 6-3 quarterfinal win on Tuesday, saving three set points in the opening set to improve to 2-1 in the pair&#8217;s all-time head-to-head record.<\/p>\n<p>The win also sends the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/rankings\/singles\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/rankings\/singles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">world No. 8<\/a> into her first Madrid Open semifinal \u2014 one day before her 19th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m extremely happy about the way I played and the result,&#8221; Andreeva said. &#8220;It wouldn&#8217;t be a perfect birthday if I would lose today. I really didn&#8217;t want that to happen, and I was trying to give everything I had to be in a good mood tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After needing all three sets to get past Hungary&#8217;s Anna Bondar on Monday, Andreeva appeared more in control during her quarterfinal.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez pushed Andreeva hard in the first set and had three chances to take it. However, Andreeva held firm, dominated the tiebreak before taking control in the second.<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, she discussed improvements she&#8217;s made since <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/coco-gauff-us-open-opponent\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"17820\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first turning pro<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like I&#8217;m still the same Mirra,&#8221; she said, joking that the biggest difference might be appreciating more alone time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now all I want to do is come back to the room and be alone,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Other than that, I feel like I&#8217;m still the same Mirra.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, her <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/andreeva-continues-hot-streak-with-2025-indian-wells-victory\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/andreeva-continues-hot-streak-with-2025-indian-wells-victory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">growth on court<\/a> has been obvious.<\/p>\n<p>This marks Andreeva&#8217;s first Madrid Open semifinal, indicating how quickly she&#8217;s developing into a major tournament threat.<\/p>\n<p>How to Watch Mirra Andreeva at the 2026 Madrid Open<\/p>\n<p>Andreeva now advances to face either world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka or No. 32 Hailey Baptiste in Thursday&#8217;s semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>2026 Madrid Open coverage continues through May 2nd, live on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennischannel.com\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.tennischannel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Tennis Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mirra Andreeva is heading to the Madrid Open 2026 semifinals after passing one of her toughest tests of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5540,8097,6302,82,6415,5189],"class_list":{"0":"post-13497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-madrid","8":"tag-2026-madrid-open","9":"tag-2026-madrid-open-semifinals","10":"tag-leylah-fernandez","11":"tag-madrid","12":"tag-mirra-andreeva","13":"tag-wta-1000"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}