French Open: Marta Kostyuk vs. Mirra Andreeva - prediction, head-to-head, tournament so far

A first-time Roland Garros finalist is guaranteed connected Thursday, with in-form Marta Kostyuk and Mirra Andreeva to tussle successful the French Open last-four for a spot successful the title match.

Both women already faced disconnected successful the Madrid Open last a period ago, with Kostyuk taking the rubric successful consecutive sets, and she seeks different triumph astatine Andreeva's disbursal to play for the biggest honour of her vocation by winning Thursday's semi-final contest.

Match preview

Kostyuk tin look to bash nary incorrect close now, arsenic 16 consecutive wins connected the circuit became 17 connected Tuesday erstwhile she got the amended of Elina Svitolina successful 1 hr and 49 minutes connected Court Philippe-Chatrier.

The WTA Tour’s astir in-form subordinate entered the lucifer successful the cognition that the victor was to beryllium the archetypal Ukrainian pistillate to scope the French Open semi-final successful the Open Era, and her first-set showing underlined her businesslike focus.

While the experienced Svitolina fought backmost successful the 2nd set, the 23-year-old recovered mentally to borderline the decider, inflicting Svitolina's sixth Roland Garros quarter-final defeat.

The upshot of Kostyuk's 6-3 2-6 6-2 occurrence is advancement to a maiden Grand Slam semi-final, having already secured titles successful Rouen and Madrid successful the lead-up to the 2nd Major of 2026.

The Ukrainian star's clay-court play has already surpassed her erstwhile years combined connected the WTA Tour, and she present seeks an 18th triumph connected the ungraded to vie for the biggest rubric of her career.

Battling Andreeva volition beryllium doubly tricky, considering that the brace faced disconnected a period earlier successful the Spanish capital, wherever Kostyuk secured the biggest rubric of her vocation astatine the WTA 1000 tournament.

The Russian teen has recovered to scope the quarters successful Rome and has precocious to the semi-finals successful Paris, matching her 2024 run.

While she was defeated by Jasmine Paolini connected that occasion, the five-time WTA champion seeks to win wherever she mislaid retired successful 2024 by ending a losing streak against Thursday's opponent.

Andreeva's accrued aggression during the clay plaything has been evident, and she hardly gave retiring Sorana Cirstea a sniff connected Tuesday morning, securing a 6-0, 6-3 triumph successful little than an hour.

By clinching the comfy win, the 19-year-old improved to 16 Roland Garros victories, surpassing Gauff's tally of 15 for a teen successful the 2000s, which she aims to amended successful Thursday's contest.

Entering the lucifer astatine 20-3 during the clay-court swing, the erstwhile satellite fig 5 volition backmost herself for a 21st to beforehand to a maiden Grand Slam final.

Tournament truthful far

Marta Kostyuk:

First round: vs. Oksana Selekhmeteva 6-2 6-3

Second round: vs. Katie Volynets 6-7(4) 6-3 6-3

Third round: vs. Viktorija Golubic 6-4 6-3

Fourth round: vs. Iga Swiatek 7-5 6-1

Quarter-final: vs. Elina Svitolina 6-3 2-6 6-2

Mirra Andreeva:

First round: vs. Fiona Ferro 6-3 6-3

Second round: vs. Marina Bassols Ribera 3-6 6-1 6-1

Third round: vs. Marie Bouzková 6-4 6-2

Fourth round: vs. Jil Teichmann 6-3 6-2

Quarter-final: vs. Sorana Cîrstea 6-0 6-3

Head To Head

Madrid Open (2026) - Final: Kostyuk 6-3 7-5

Brisbane International (2026) - Quarter-final: Kostyuk 7-6(7) 6-3

Kostyuk and Andreeva volition look disconnected for the 3rd time, with the Ukrainian subordinate claiming some meetings.

Notably, the 23-year-old's successes person travel connected aggregate surfaces — hard courts and clay — with the astir caller 1 coming successful Madrid's WTA 1000 tournament.

Kostyuk has done good to prevention 8 interruption points during those matches successful Brisbane and Madrid, portion she converted 4 of 8 successful the erstwhile and 4 of 4 successful the Spanish capital.

However, with Andreeva showing the objective borderline to punish Cirstea each six times she engineered a accidental to interruption service connected the Romanian's delivery, the Russian volition anticipation for the aforesaid execution connected Thursday.

We say: Kostyuk to triumph successful 3 sets

Although Andreeva’s acquisition astatine this level is superior to Kostyuk’s, with the Russian subordinate competing successful her 2nd semi-final successful Paris, betting against the in-form 23-year-old astatine the infinitesimal seems ill-advised.

While different straight-sets triumph is acold from guaranteed, the Ukrainian should borderline the decider astatine the teen’s disbursal to scope a maiden Grand Slam title match.