Mirra Andreeva became the youngest WTA 1000 title winner since 2009 and with it came a big winner’s cheque and a massive points haul.
Aged 17 years and five months, Andreeva defeated world No 2 Iga Swiatek in the quarter-final and world No 6 Elena Rybakina in the final to reach her maiden WTA 1000 final.
She then topped Clara Tauson 7-6 (7-1), 6-1 to win the Dubai Tennis Championships and with it comes a rise into the top 10 of the WTA Rankings for the first time in her career.
Points Earned
The teenager, who reached the semi-final of the French Open in 2024, started the week at No 14 in the rankings and will rise to a career-high No 9 on Monday.
That is thanks to her points tally of 1,000, although she effectively earned “only” 990 points.
Having lost in the first round of the 2024 Dubai WTA 1000 event, Andreeva dropped 10 points at the start of the tournament while she earned 1,000 points for her title run, meaning there was a 990-point swing.
The Russian was on 2,730 points before the tournament and will move to 3,720 when the rankings is updated, just behind Zheng Qinwen on 3,780 in eighth place while there is a bigger gap to Rybakina in seventh place.
Runner-up Clara Tauson was at No 33 before the Dubai tournament, but she will surge to No 22 after picking up 648 for her run to the final.
Rybakina and Karolina Muchova lost in the semi-finals and 390 points are on offer for those reaching the last four and the latter got the full compliment as she didn’t play last year.
Rybakina, though, left with 175 points as she reached the quarter-final in 2024.
Swiatek, Sofia Kenin, Sorana Cirstea and Linda Noskova all lost in the last eight where 215 points are awarded and only Kenin (+155) and Noskova (+200) left in the positive when their 2024 points dropped.
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Mirra Andreeva wins Dubai; becomes youngest-ever WTA 1000 winner, cracks the top 10
Five-time Grand Slam winner had a -175-point swing and Cirstea also lost 175 points as she was a semi-finalist last year.
But Jasmine Paolini was the biggest loser as she was the defending champion, but exited in the round of 16, thus dropping 880 points.
What About Money?
According to the WTA, Andreeva had earned $501,920 in prize money for the year before the Dubai event while her career earnings sit at $3,202,867.
The 17-year-old picked up a cheque of $597,000 for winning the title while Tauson will double her earnings for the year to date as she won $351,801 to add to the $302,299 before the tournament.
The two losing semi-finalists were awarded $181,400 and the quarter-finalists $83,470.
World No 1 Aryna Sabalenka exited in the round of 16 and won $41,600 in prize money while she earned 110 points (she was defending 10 points from last year) while No 3 Coco Gauff lost in the second round so she lost 205 points after reaching the quarter-final last year, but she did receive a cheque of $23,500.
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