India, Feb. 21 -- A few nuggets stick out in Mirra Andreeva's rousing run to the WTA Dubai Open final taking down Iga Swiatek on Thursday and Elena Rybakina on Friday: At 17, she is the youngest WTA 1000 finalist and the youngest to beat three Grand Slam champions in a single event since Maria Sharapova. She is also the first player aged under 18 that both Swiatek and Rybakina have lost to at the WTA level.

The takeaways: Andreeva is an outstanding talent. She is also an outlier in women's tennis at the moment.

At world No.14, the Russian is the only teen in the top 100 of the WTA rankings. On the corresponding men's side, the volume is thrice as much. What's more telling is that between 100 and 200 in the WTA charts, there are 11 playe...