Mirra Andreeva on Cusp of Perfect Finish to Season While Elina Svitolina Seeks Repeat of Past Glory at WTA Finals
Match News and Form
Mirra Andreeva maintained her picture-perfect debut at the WTA Finals and jumps into the championship match without the loss of a set. After crushing Elina Svitolina, Aryna Sabalenka and Diana Shnaider in the group stage, she defeated Jessica Pegula, 6-3, 6-4, in the semifinals.
Andreeva has lost only 18 games across four matches, the fewest by anyone en route to the final since the current format was introduced in 2003. Though she may have defined her season with the Roland Garros title, she has now won 14 of her last 17 matches on hard courts.
Elina Svitolina returns to the final of the year-end championships after unexpectedly defeating Linda Noskova with a decisive 6-2, 6-1 scoreline in the semifinals. The Ukrainian, making her first WTA Finals appearance since 2019, was on the verge of crashing out of the round-robin stage.
Svitolina not only lost to Andreeva, 6-4, 6-0, in the first group match but also needed three sets to defeat Karolina Muchova and Aryna Sabalenka in the next two. The 32-year-old now hopes to end 2026, her best post-COVID season, on a high after scripting eight semifinal-or-better results.
Head to Head
Mirra Andreeva leads 2-1 after prevailing a few days ago in the round-robin stage. The pair began their rivalry with a Russian victory at the BNP Paribas Open here in Indian Wells in 2025.
Stats and Facts
Mirra Andreeva has a 6-3 record in career finals and seeks her fourth title of the 2026 season.
Andreeva is the youngest finalist at the WTA Finals since Maria Sharapova won the title in 2004.
Elina Svitolina has already played in the championship match of the WTA Finals twice, winning in Singapore in 2018 but falling short in Shenzhen in 2019.
Svitolina has won two of three finals in the 2026 season, in Auckland and Rome, her first instance of multiple titles in a single year since 2020.
Betting Analysis
Needless to say, Mirra Andreeva will be the firm favorite going into the biggest hard-court final of her career. The young Russian, who has already won a WTA 1000 title at the Indian Wells venue, sees no reason to halt her red-hot run in the desert.
