<figure id="attachment_3301046" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3301046" style="width: 1600px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-3301046" src="https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/893b25a7-afp-20260310-mirra-andreeva.webp" alt="" width="1600" height="1000" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3301046" class="wp-caption-text">Mirra Andreeva plays a forehand in their third round match of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. (Getty Images/AFP pic)</figcaption></figure>
INDIAN WELLS: Unseeded Katerina Siniakova ended a frustrated Mirra Andreeva&#8217;s Indian Wells title defense on Monday, rallying for a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 victory over the eighth-ranked Russian.
The 18-year-old Andreeva had opened her repeat bid with an imperious 6-0, 6-0 demolition of Solana Sierra.
But she was in trouble early and often against 44th-ranked Siniakova in a rollercoaster contest that featured seven service breaks for each player and 43 break chances between them.
When she sailed a swinging volley long to surrender the second set, Andreeva threw her racquet in disgust.
She regrouped to break Siniakova for a 3-2 lead in the third, but Siniakova won the next four games.
The Czech saved a pair of break points in the final game before sealing the match with a shot that struck the net cord and dribbled over as Andreeva could only watch, disappointment sparking another outburst from the Russian as she departed the court.
Siniakova, a former doubles number one, will face either Ukraine&#8217;s Elina Svitolina or American Ashlyn Krueger for a place in the quarter-finals.
In other early matches, fifth-seeded American Jessica Pegula shook off a slow start to beat Latvia&#8217;s Jelena Ostapenko 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.
Pegula, coming off her fourth career WTA 1000 title at Dubai last month, fired 11 aces with just one double fault as she rallied for the win.
&#8220;I think today I had to kind of snap myself back and kind of lock in to not let that get away from me,&#8221; said Pegula, who said she was in danger of letting negativity and frustration get the better of her.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t think I was playing bad. It was just letting a couple chances, couple breaks here and there (get away), maybe a couple shots that I could have been more aggressive on.&#8221;
Later on Stadium Court, world number two Iga Swiatek took on Greece&#8217;s Maria Sakkari &#8212; the woman she beat in the Indian Wells finals in 2022 and 2024.
Australian Open champion Elena Rybakina, who lifted the Indian wells Trophy in 2023, played Ukraine&#8217;s Marta Kostyuk in the final match of the night.

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