"I do feel like it was all me": Mirra Andreeva debuts hilarious 'I want to thank myself' sweatshirt after Adelaide title

Mirra Andreeva unveiled a hilarious sweatshirt after she claimed the title thrashing Victoria Mboko to finally seal her maiden WTA 500 title brandished with her phrase 'I want to thank myself'.

Andreeva didn't acknowledge the sweatshirt after defeating Mboko in Saturday's final but she did lean into it thanking herself again hilariously. She had not had an occasion to bring back the catchphrase since Indian Wells having not reached a final since last March. She breezed through without dropping a set culminating with a 6-3, 6-1 win over Mboko.

Prior to that, she had seen off Marie Bouzkova 6-3, 6-1. Maya Joint 6-2, 6-0 and also her doubles partner Diana Shnaider 6-3, 6-2 before easing past Mboko. At the Australian Open, it is a tough test on paper as she faces off against Donna Vekic.

“Thanks to me, I want to thank myself for being brave on all the matches that I played. I want to thank myself for pushing myself every day on the practices these last few weeks," said Andreeva on court.

"I guess my team comes next. But I do feel like it was all me. I don’t know what I can say. I’ve been practicing a lot. I’ve been working, sweating and I don’t even know why you’re here, honestly!”

"I want to thank myself for changing my mentality, for fighting until the very last point for doing what I got to do, doing what my team tells me to do, sometimes with complaining, but it's okay. So, yeah, I guess thanks to me and thanks everyone again."

She gave the origins of her phrase in a video that went viral at the top and was something that she copied from Snoop Dogg. Whether the hilarious jackets will be on sale remains to be seen but it is a trend that she has continued.

“Well, it started when I first said that sentence,” she said. “It was when I won my first tournament in Romania, in Iasi, 250 WTA tournament. Since then, every time I win and I get to have a speech, I get to have, I get to say something on the court after I win, I always say thanks to myself.

“But it's not my thing. I stole it from Snoop Dogg. Because I saw him saying that on some kind of interview when he said, "I want to thank me." And then his song was playing on the background. So I stole it from him.

“Since then, like people love that, when I say that thing. I said it in Dubai. I said it in Indian Wells. And then, yeah, after that it kind of became the thing that I say on the speech.”

She will hope to continue her trend of winning going into the Australian Open as she hopes to bring the same mindset as this past week into Melbourne.

“Of course, it's a great preparation to go into Melbourne and to play in the Australian Open,” said Andreeva. “You know, of course it gives me a lot of confidence to see myself play well on the court, and it's just, in two days basically I'm going to play another match in Melbourne.

“I just have to bring the same level of my game and the same mindset into Melbourne. I think I'm going to play well there as well. Obviously, I feel more confident after this win. Also winning a title is super special to me as well. So, yeah, I just have to kind of, maybe today and tomorrow I relax a little bit, we practice, and then we have to get to work again.”