Tennis player Andreeva defeated the second racket of the world and reached the semifinals in Dubai

Russian tennis player Mirra Andreeva defeated for the first time in her professional career the second racket of the world, Poland's Iga Swiontek. Thus, on February 20, she reached the semifinals of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tournament in Dubai.

Andreeva (No. 12 seed) defeated her opponent in two sets: 6:3, 6:3. The meeting lasted 1 hour 38 minutes, notes "Sport-Express".

Prior to this tennis players met once at the tournament in Cincinnati(USA, Ohio). Then the victory went to the representative of Poland: 4:6, 6:3, 7:5.

In the semifinals of the UAE tournament, the Russian will face the winner of the meeting between Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan (sixth seed) and Sofia Kenin of the USA.

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Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev became the sixth ranked player in the world on February 17. The updated ranking was published by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). The athlete moved up two ranks, surpassing Serbian Novak Djokovic and Australian Alex de Minaur. The top 100 also included Russians Andrey Rublev, who finished in the top ten, Karen Khachanov (21st) and Roman Safiullin (71st).