Favourite Andreeva faces red-hot home star Zheng for prestigious Beijing trophy

[h2][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/tennis/andreeva-m-lI6fOOat/zheng-q-xCyEhjAS/?mid=4zaXSjTk"]Zheng vs Andreeva - 13:30 CET[/a][/h2][h2]Match news and form[/h2][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/andreeva-mirra/lI6fOOat/"]Mirra Andreeva[/a][/b] played her best match of the tournament and defeated 20-year-old Nikola Bartunkova, 6-2, 6-2, with 16 winners and 10 unforced errors. As a result, the 19-year-old has reached her ninth WTA final and her fourth at the WTA 1000 level.[/p][p]Andreeva's ride to the final hasn't been smooth, as she needed to rally from a set down against Yue Yuan and edge Ekaterina Alexandrova, 7-6(4), 7-6(3). As a consequence of this campaign, the reigning Roland Garros champion has sealed her place in the WTA Finals and her top-three debut.[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/zheng-qinwen/xCyEhjAS/"][b]Qinwen Zheng[/b][/a] has ended her near two-year final drought and could not have found a better place to do so than on home soil. After surviving four consecutive three-set matches in the first four rounds, the Chinese star knocked out Elina Svitolina, 6-3, 7-6(6), and then Elise Mertens, 7-5, 6-2.[/p][p]Zheng missed almost all of the second half of the previous season and dropped outside the top 150. The former world No. 4 showed signs of a strong recovery with a quarter-final finish at the US Open, where she beat Madison Keys and Iga Swiatek, and now is set to return to the top 30.[/p][h2]Head-to-head[/h2][p]Zheng leads 1–0. Their only previous meeting took place right here in Beijing, where the home player won in the quarter-finals two years ago, 5-7, 6-0, 6-4.[/p][image alt="Win probability." id="4823424c-b408-4743-8ed0-ce6c11da839d" credit-line="Flashscore" guid="24f13815-b4f6-41f3-930e-432f03df9b6b" original-width="2160" original-height="2700" /][h2]Stats & facts[/h2][p]• Andreeva is 6-2 in tour-level finals, most recently beating Maja Chwalinska to win the Roland Garros title.[/p][p]• Andreeva has two WTA 1000 titles, Dubai and Indian Wells in 2025, but sustained her first WTA 1000 final loss in Madrid this spring.[/p][p]• Zheng has a 5-5 career record in finals and 2-5 on hard courts.[/p][p]• Zheng was 2-8 against top-10 players since the start of 2025 before this fortnight, but now seeks her second such win of the tournament.[/p][h2]Betting analysis[/h2][p]Andreeva has already won multiple titles at and above WTA 1000 level in her very young career and remains the strong favourite against the home star. Zheng has never won a title of this calibre and is likely to push this clash into three sets.[/p][embed guid="7d986e27-ef32-43f1-b645-e35dbac1329a" url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22pyy0S0S3s" social-type="youtube" /][h2]Zheng in 2026[/h2][p][b]Best results: [/b]Beijing (final)[/p][p][b]Best results on outdoor hard courts:[/b] Beijing (final)[/p][p][b]Record:[/b] 24-15[/p][p][b]Record in the last 10 matches:[/b] 8-2[/p][p][b]Record on outdoor hard courts:[/b] 19-7[/p][p][b]Record against top-10 players:[/b] 2-4 (career 13-25)[/p][p][b]Record in WTA 1000 finals:[/b] 0-0 (career 0-1)[/p][p][b]Record in finals:[/b] 0-0 (career 5-5)[/p][p][b]Grand Slams:[/b] Australian Open (did not play), French Open (round of 128), Wimbledon (round of 128), US Open (quarter-finals)[/p][h2]Zheng at the China Open[/h2][p][b]Career record:[/b] 11-3[/p][p][b]Best result:[/b] Final (2026)[/p][p][b]Last year's result:[/b] Round of 32[/p][p][b]Record in finals:[/b] 0-0[/p][p][b]Preparation:[/b] None[/p][p][b]Road to the final:[/b] Han Shi (7-6, 4-6, 6-2), (15) Kalinskaya (6-7, 6-4, 3-0 ret.), (18) Bouzkova (7-6, 4-6, 7-5), Charaeva (6-1, 2-6, 6-4), (6) Svitolina (6-3, 7-6), (13) Mertens (7-5, 6-2)[/p][embed guid="ec3e6dcb-9992-4ac3-b15e-1fb90b0463d0" url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3JS4mPUtUQ" social-type="youtube" /][h2]Andreeva in 2026[/h2][p][b]Best results:[/b] French Open, Linz, Adelaide (title); Madrid (final)[/p][p][b]Best results on outdoor hard courts:[/b] Adelaide (title)[/p][p][b]Record:[/b] 50-15[/p][p][b]Record in the last 10 matches:[/b] 8-2[/p][p][b]Record on outdoor hard courts:[/b] 26-9[/p][p][b]Record against top-50 to top-100 players:[/b] 15-0 (career 50-9)[/p][p][b]Record in WTA 1000 finals:[/b] 0-1 (career 2-1)[/p][p][b]Record in finals:[/b] 3-1 (career 6-2)[/p][p][b]Grand Slams:[/b] Australian Open (round of 16), French Open (title), Wimbledon (round of 64), US Open (quarter-finals)[/p][h2]Andreeva at the China Open[/h2][p][b]Career record:[/b] 12-3[/p][p][b]Best result:[/b] Dinal (2026)[/p][p][b]Last year's result:[/b] Round of 16[/p][p][b]Record in finals:[/b] 0-0[/p][p][b]Preparation:[/b] Singapore (Quarter-finals)[/p][p][b]Road to the final:[/b] Bye, Yue Yuan (3-6, 6-0, 6-0), P. Kudermetova (6-4, 6-1), Snigur (6-2, 6-2), (19) Alexandrova (7-6, 7-6), (26) Bartunkova (6-2, 6-2)[/p][h2][a href="https://www.wtatennis.com/tournaments/china-open/order-of-play"]Sunday's schedule[/a] | [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/tennis/wta-singles/beijing/results/"]Results[/a][/h2]