Mirra Andreeva holds nerve against Svitolina to win WTA Finals for first time

The Guardian

Andreeva seals 7-5, 6-3 victory to earn world No 2 ranking Russian dominates tournament without losing a set Mirra Andreeva had put herself on the brink of securing another effortless, straightforward set in one of the biggest finals of her career when she momentarily balked. Serving for the first set at 5-4, Andreeva nervously opened the game with two dire double faults before spraying two further unforced errors to hand over the break. There have already been many times in Andreeva’s young career when similar sequences triggered epic, dramatic collapses, so prone the 19-year-old has been to…