The fact that Mirra Andreeva has not lost tennis matches for twelve has no longer lost an outstanding performance. However, the fact that the 17-year-old Russian won the Masters tournaments in Dubai and Miami with this yield makes things out again. Figures about the success indicate that she has what it takes to shape sport sustainably.
With the move into the semi-finals of the French Open, Mirra Andreeva 2024 delighted the tennis world: The Russian became the youngest player, who reached the preliminary round of a major, since Martina Hingna Dessel 1997. With 209 weeks at the top of the WTA world rankings and a total of 25 Grand Slam titles (5 in singles, 7 in the mixed) The most formative player who have ever been active on the tour – a status that Andreeva could also reach.
Because after her 2: 6-6: 4-6: 3 victory against Aryna Sabalenka in the final of Indian Wells, the top talent in the statistics ends up the top talent in the ranks of the greatest legends of tennis.
In their success with the prestigious Masters, they were younger than Andreeva only Dedis (1998) and Serena Williams (1999), who subsequently swung up the most successful player of all time.
Place one in the tennis world rankings already predetermined?
In addition, number six in the world rankings has been the second youngest player since the introduction of the WTA ranking in 1975, who was able to conquer the number two in the world in half and number one in the final for a Masters or Grand Slam. The then 16-year-old American Tracy Austin, who succeeded in this feat at the US Open in 1979.
To defeat a number one in a WTA final after the set deficit, according to “Opta”, has only succeeded in recent years since 1985 (against Monica Seles 1991 in San Diego) and Gabriela Sabatini (against Steffi Graf 1988 in Boca Raton).
Striking: Except for Sabatini (3rd place), all players mentioned reached first place in the world rankings in their career, each won at least one Grand Slam tournament.
Andreeva spoke to the fact that she is still a normal teenager, in which she opened openly with her performance at the beginning of the second sentence and repeatedly shouted in front of her: “I can be difficult, today was no exception. I behaved a little, like a ‘little brat’,” said Andreeva, but at the same time apologized to Sabalenka, she was simply “supernerving”.