{"id":887333,"date":"2026-04-11T17:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/887333\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T17:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:51:14","slug":"andreeva-to-face-potapova-in-linz-wta-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/887333\/","title":{"rendered":"Andreeva to face Potapova in Linz WTA final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian top seed Mirra Andreeva eased into her second WTA final of the year with a straight-sets victory over Romania&#8217;s Elena-Gabriela Ruse in Linz on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old won 6-4, 6-1 in Austria to set up a Sunday meeting with home favourite Anastasia Potapova.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>World number 10 Andreeva has enjoyed a welcome return to form this week after failing to reach a semi-final since her title triumph at an Australian Open warm-up event in Adelaide in January.<\/p>\n<p>Andreeva has a 2-1 winning record against Potapova, taking their last two meetings in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p>Russian-born Potapova, who switched allegiance to Austria at the start of the season, saw off Croatian Donna Vekic 6-4, 6-2 in the second semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>jc\/mw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian top seed Mirra Andreeva eased into her second WTA final of the year with a straight-sets victory&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4105],"tags":[24032,18388,79,136003,1068,16,15,250694],"class_list":["post-887333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-anastasia-potapova","tag-mirra-andreeva","tag-sports","tag-straight-sets","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wta-final"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116387347765385223","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}