Bianca Andreescu beat top seed Tatjana Maria 6-1, 2-6, 6-3 on Sunday to win the Queretaro Open in Mexico. The Bianca Andreescu Queretaro Open title is her second WTA 125 championship in two weeks, a 10th straight match win for the Mississauga, Ontario player whose comeback has been building all season.
FINAL: Bianca Andreescu 6-1, 2-6, 6-3 over Tatjana Maria
How to watch: Bianca Andreescu vs Tatjana Maria, Sunday, November 1, 2026, Queretaro Open final, Queretaro, Mexico
Surface: Clay
Match time: Two hours, six minutes
Andreescu, 26, was seeded fourth in the event and Maria, 39, was the top seed, so the result goes down as an upset on paper. The tennis told a different story. Andreescu hit 65 winners to Maria’s 15, won eight of her 12 service games and six of her 12 return games, and earned US$15,500 for the victory, according to The Canadian Press report of the final. This was a former world No. 4 playing like one again, against a top-100 opponent, on clay, in a final.
Bianca Andreescu Queretaro Open Final: Three Sets, One Turn
Andreescu had little trouble with the opening set. She broke Maria’s serve in the first game of the match and kept the pressure on the German’s return games all set long, closing it out 6-1. Maria, ranked No. 70 in the world and a tour veteran whose slice-heavy game has frustrated opponents for two decades, found her game in the second set and stormed back. She broke twice in a row, won four straight games to lead 4-1, and closed the set 6-2 as Andreescu’s unforced errors climbed. The Canadian finished the match with 48 unforced errors against those 65 winners, a scoreline that shows how much of this final ran through her racket, in both directions.
The deciding set turned at 2-2. Maria broke first and led 3-2, the moment where a comeback story usually ends. Andreescu broke straight back, held serve to move in front, and managed the closing games better than her opponent, holding her nerve to finish the set 6-3 and the match after two hours and six minutes on the clay. Both players hit four aces and six double faults. The difference was aggression: Andreescu saved five of the nine break points she faced and converted pressure into winners at a rate Maria could not match, 65 to 15.
The tone for the week was set in her first match. After beating American Katherine Hui 6-3, 6-2 in the opening round on Tuesday, Andreescu said: “I think I played excellent tennis today. Obviously, the conditions are different from where I was last week, but I feel like I’m getting used to them. I also really like the crowd. I don’t play just for myself; I play for them, so when they support me, it means a lot to me. The atmosphere is incredible.”
Ten Straight Wins And Back-To-Back WTA 125 Titles
Queretaro was the second half of a two-week run across two continents. Last week in Rovereto, Italy, Andreescu won the WTA 125 title there, beating sixth seed Dominika Salkova 7-6(2), 6-2 in the final and top seed Antonia Ruzic along the way. The WTA called that title her biggest since the 2019 US Open, and it lifted her 36 places to No. 132 in the rankings. She then travelled to Mexico and won five more matches without a pause: Hui 6-3, 6-2, Diletta Cherubini 6-2, 6-3, Alicia Herrero Linana 6-1, 6-1 in a 55-minute quarter-final, and Carole Monnet of France 6-3, 7-5 in Saturday’s semi-final, a win that took her to the final without dropping a set all week.
Five wins in Rovereto and five in Queretaro make 10 straight, and the second title in that run carries a rankings reward with it. Andreescu is projected to climb to about No. 109 when the new rankings land, which puts a return to the top 100 one more deep week away. She has not held a top-100 ranking since May 2025. For a player who started this comeback in January on the ITF circuit, that number is the whole point of the exercise: top-100 players walk straight into Grand Slam main draws instead of fighting through qualifying.
The Long Road Back For A US Open Champion
The context is what makes a WTA 125 title in Queretaro a headline in Canada. In 2019 Andreescu won Indian Wells, won the National Bank Open in Toronto, and beat Serena Williams in the US Open final, becoming the first Canadian woman to win a Grand Slam singles title and rising to No. 4 in the world. Injuries then took years out of her career, and the ranking slid with them. Her 2026 season has been a deliberate rebuild from the bottom of the sport: she skipped Australian Open qualifying, opened the year at ITF events in Florida, and won titles in Bradenton and Vero Beach, her first singles titles of any kind since 2019. She reached the WTA 125 final in Austin as well, finishing runner-up there, so Queretaro is her third final at this level this season and her second title in it.
The next test of where this form really stands comes in team colours. Tennis Canada has named Andreescu to the Canadian team for the Billie Jean King Cup play-offs against Brazil in Vitoria, Brazil, this month, her ninth time representing Canada in the competition. A player who has just won 10 straight matches and two straight titles is exactly the player a captain wants walking into a play-off tie on South American clay, the same surface she has just conquered in Mexico.
Nothing about Sunday’s final was a fluke, and nothing about it was small. A top seed beaten, a trophy lifted, a win streak in double figures, and a ranking moving back toward the line that changes a season. Bianca Andreescu’s comeback stopped being a hope sometime this fall. In Queretaro, it picked up its second trophy in two weeks.
