{"id":1866839,"date":"2026-04-05T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1866839"},"modified":"2026-04-05T12:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:00:32","slug":"linz-open-draw-mirra-andreevas-late-entry-as-alex-eala-faces-austrian-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1866839","title":{"rendered":"Linz Open draw: Mirra Andreeva&#8217;s late entry as Alex Eala faces Austrian veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"ps-article-content rounded-lg lg:mt-5 lg:border lg:border-card lg:bg-card lg:shadow-primary\">\n<header>\n<h1 class=\"py-4 text-xl font-normal text-title sm:text-2xl\">Linz Open draw: Mirra Andreeva\u2019s late entry as Alex Eala faces Austrian veteran<\/h1>\n<div class=\"my-2 flex items-center justify-between\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/author\/shahidaj\" class=\"text-sm font-normal 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!text-content\">\n                                Mirra Andreeva and Alex Eala                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\"><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Mirra Andreeva will be the top seed for Linz Open and she will face either a former US Open winner or a German veteran in her opening match at the Austrian tournament.<\/p>\n<p>World No 10 Andreeva was not initially on the entry list, but she accepted a late wildcard and \u2013 as the highest-ranked player in the field \u2013 she went onto the first line of the draw sheet and earned a bye in the second round in the process.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old will face either 2017 US Open champion Sloane Stephens, who also entered after receiving a wildcard, or the 38-year-old Tatjana Maria in her first encounter.<\/p>\n<p>If she gets past Stephens or Maria, Andreeva is projected to face fifth seed Sorana Cirstea in the quarter-final while fourth seed Jelena Ostapenko is a likely semi-final opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Ostapenko, though, will have to get past either World No 87 Julia Grabher or world No 45 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/alex-eala\">Alex Eala<\/a> in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Rising star Eala, who is making her debut at the WTA 100 tournament, is playing in her first clay-court event of the season with her last tournament the Miami Open on the hard-courts in Florida where she reached the round of 16.<\/p>\n<h2>WTA News<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/alex-eala-problem-emma-raducanu-comparison\">Alex Eala suffering from a problem Emma Raducanu has failed to resolve<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/iva-jovic-madison-keys-prize-money-ranking-points-charleston-open\">Iva Jovic and Madison Keys\u2019 prize money and ranking points from Charleston Open<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The winner of the Ostapenko\/Grabher\/Eala match will likely face seventh seed Ann Li in the quarter-final. The American takes on Dayana Yastremska first up before a meeting with either Katie Boulter or Elena-Gabriela Ruse.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champion Ekaterina Alexandrova headlines the bottom section as the second seed and she will face either former world No 1 Karolina Pliskova or a qualifier in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>A quarter-final encounter against eighth seed Sara Bejlek is on the cards, but the Czech faces Panna Udvardy first up and if she gets past the Hungarian, she will take on a qualifier in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>If the seeds hold, then Alexandrova will meet third seed Liudmila Samsonova in the semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian will meet either rising Austrian star Lili Tagger, who is just 18, or former world No 2 Paula Badosa in the second round, while she is projected to face sixth seed Jaqueline Cristian in the last eight.<\/p>\n<h2>Projected Quarter-Finals<\/h2>\n<p>Andreeva v Cirstea<br \/>\nOstapenko v Li<br \/>\nCristian v Samsonova<br \/>\nBejlek v Alexandrova<\/p>\n<p>The tournament has been hit hard by withdrawals with Grand Slam winners Barbora Krejcikova, Marketa Vondrousova and Emma Raducanu all pulling out before the draw was made.<\/p>\n<p>Daria Kasatkina, Emma Navarro, Antonia Ruzic and Clara Tauson were the other players to withdraw on the eve of the WTA 500 event.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linz Open draw: Mirra Andreeva\u2019s late entry as Alex Eala faces Austrian veteran Shahida Jacobs 05 Apr 2026 1:00 PM Mirra Andreeva and Alex Eala Mirra Andreeva will be the top seed for Linz Open and she will face either a former US Open winner or a German veteran in her opening match at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-1866839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1866839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1866839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1866839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1866839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}