2023-04-27 16:55:16
15-0. This is not the start of a tennis match but the record, on the main circuit, of Mirra Andreeva, 16 years old in two days (April 29). Fifteen wins, zero losses. In three tournaments, including the current WTA 1000 on clay in Madrid (Spain). This Wednesday and Thursday, the Russian (194th in the world ranking) eliminated in quick succession the Canadian Leylah Fernandez (49th in the world) and the Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia (14th in the world).
At 15 for a few more hours, she became the third player in history to win at least one game in such an important tournament at this age. The Americans Coco Gauff, in 2019, and Catherine Bellis, in 2015, had achieved it, each time in Miami. Invited by the organizers in Madrid, Mirra Andreeva awaits her opponent in the next round, from this Friday (the Polish Linette or the Czech Vondrousova).
Whatever the result of the 3rd round, we are not about to see Mirra Andreeva disappear. Thanks to her two ITF trophies (the equivalent of the challengers for men), the native of Krasnoyarsk (Siberia) inherited a place in the qualifying table of Roland-Garros (May 28 – June 11). In 2022, she participated in the junior tournament, eliminated in the quarter-finals. Andreeva, whose big sister Erika (18) is ranked 114th in the world, could hope for the main draw this time.
Mirra and Erika Andreeva have been training since the beginning of 2022 in Cannes, like Daniil Medvedev before them, coached by the French Jean-Christophe Faurel and Jean-René Lisnard. “We are dealing with a prodigy”, warns the latter this Thursday morning in the columns of L’Equipe about the finalist for the Australian Open juniors in 2023. The whole world circuit could soon realize this.
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