Mirra Andreeva
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Mark-Touch
Legend
Yes she is doing great which I love to see. If she could possibly take down Iga and Sab all I can say is "Look out!" 
Or maybe Keys will do the deed with Sab.
Or maybe Keys will do the deed with Sab.
Nostradamus
Bionic Poster
i don't know how she plays in that garbage Nike shoes though
I don't know her well or where she grew up but I assume Russians are used to play in tough conditions and with little in sense of equipment or footwear for that matter.
NattyGut
Professional
Interesting March 9, 2025 The New Yorker article on Andreeva. Born in Siberia, she began playing tennis in 2014 at the age of 6 ... she developed her tennis game in Sochi, Russia and in Cannes, France. Since the age of 13 or 14 she and her sister Erika have trained at the Elite Tennis Center in Cannes, France, the former training base of Daniil Medvedev.
“We knew that Daniil Medvedev had practiced [in Cannes],” Andreeva told wtatennis.com. “Our agent talked to us about the academies and we had two choices to go either to a Rafa Nadal Academy or to Cannes. We came there, we tried one week, and I liked it and so we decided to work with them since the beginning of 2022.”
As for her 2025 season, Andreeva has hit the seventh-most aces on tour, forty-five per cent more aces than the top-ranked Sabalenka.
www.newyorker.com
“We knew that Daniil Medvedev had practiced [in Cannes],” Andreeva told wtatennis.com. “Our agent talked to us about the academies and we had two choices to go either to a Rafa Nadal Academy or to Cannes. We came there, we tried one week, and I liked it and so we decided to work with them since the beginning of 2022.”
As for her 2025 season, Andreeva has hit the seventh-most aces on tour, forty-five per cent more aces than the top-ranked Sabalenka.
Mirra Andreeva Is Just Getting Started
Pro tennis has shifted away from teen queens, but the seventeen-year-old has joined the ranks of her idols and toppled them.
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Mark-Touch
Legend
It's a pity the NY'er puts up a paywall for the article.Interesting March 9, 2025 The New Yorker article on Andreeva. Born in Siberia, developed in Russia and France.
She has hit the seventh-most aces on tour, forty-five per cent more aces than the top-ranked Sabalenka in the 2025 season.
Mirra Andreeva Is Just Getting Started
Pro tennis has shifted away from teen queens, but the seventeen-year-old has joined the ranks of her idols and toppled them.
I'll just assume it was a good one.
NattyGut
Professional
I got to read it without an issue and I don't subscribe to The New Yorker.
It might become "unpaywalled" if you clear browser and search for it rather than using the link above?
Opening paragraphs:
Shortly after Mirra Andreeva defeated Clara Tauson to win the Dubai Tennis Championships—a tournament that sits one rung below the four Grand Slams—she balanced the large metal trophy she had been given against her hips and took part in the ritual humiliations of a victory speech. Andreeva’s curly blond hair was slicked back into a braid, and sweat dotted her teal outfit. She ticked through the standard list of acknowledgements: her opponent (“You’ve been playing amazing”), her support team, her family, her coach (“I know that I can be a pain in the ass”), the crowd, her fans. Then, “last but not least,” she thanked herself. “I just want to thank me for always believing in me,” she said. She then dissolved into giggles, before recovering and thanking herself some more.
Andreeva is seventeen years old—so young that her formative experience of watching a tennis match as a child was the Australian Open final between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer in 2017. Born in Siberia, she moved to Sochi, Russia, and then to Cannes, France, to develop her game. After her title in Dubai, she reached No. 9 in the W.T.A. rankings, making her the youngest player to enter the top ten in the past eighteen years. Until the eighteen-year-old Maya Joint reached the quarterfinals of a tournament in Mexico at the end of February and shot to No. 85, Andreeva was the only teen-ager in the top hundred. And even this understates the gap between her accomplishments and those of the other youngest players on the tour. To win the title in Dubai, Andreeva had to defeat Iga Świątek, a five-time major champion known for her suffocating style, and Elena Rybakina, a Wimbledon champion with blistering power. And, when Andreeva did just that and snagged the big title, no one who’s been following women’s tennis was terribly surprised.
After all, at the Australian Open last year, Andreeva, as a sixteen-year-old, dismantled Ons Jabeur, a former Grand Slam finalist, by a score of 6–0, 6–2. Jabeur, who turned thirty last year, is one of Andreeva’s idols, and probably the player whose guileful game Andreeva’s most resembles. Another young player might have been overawed by such an opponent, but it was Jabeur, not Andreeva, who appeared stunned. Two rounds later, Andreeva fell behind Diane Parry in the third set; after a backhand error, Andreeva fiercely bit her own biceps, tattooing a perfect ring of teeth marks into her arm. Then she came back and won. This might have been an even more propitious sign of what was to come. Other young players have experienced sudden surges of success, only to regress just as quickly. But, a few months after the Australian Open, at the French, Andreeva beat Aryna Sabalenka in the quarterfinals. And she’s improved since.
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Mark-Touch
Legend
Thanks I got it now using another browser.
NattyGut
Professional
I was fortunate enough to be tuned in to watch her come back against Diane Parry. That was some exciting, nerve wracking, do-or-die point-by-point tennis. It was truly amazing.
Andreeva came from 5-1 down in the final set -- and saved a match point -- to beat France's Diane Parry, 1-6, 6-1, 7-6[5].
Start at 1:22 minutes in.
Mark-Touch
Legend
I just read the article and for me at least it was quite poor in quality.
The woman who wrote it doesn't have a firm grasp of tennis and struggles
to put coherent sentences together.
How about this one:
" Her coach, Conchita Martínez, not only has a fantastic tactical mind
but is widely considered to be a real adult—not always a given in pro tennis."
Huh? A real adult? Are most coaches fake adults? LOL!
There are a lot of other doozies in it.
Mark-Touch
Legend
I'm sure I watched the match at the time, but everything is a blur now with Mirra.
I started watching where you recommended and it's 5-5 now. Gotta go to bed but I think
I'll continue tomorrow. Great stuff!
GRASScaraz
Hall of Fame
Mirra is Igas kryptonite at 17... Just beat her on arguably her second best court.
Mark-Touch
Legend
You are not supposed to post results in this forum.
It's a secret Andreeva mold shoes that is paintjobbed with Nike logo.
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