Russia’s young tennis star Mirra Andreeva has stated that she is ‘not a star’ when asked to give advice to another young player.
The 16-year-old became the talk of the town in the ongoing Australian Open 2023 where she defeated one of the tournament favourites world number six Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur in the second round with a score of 6-0, 6-2.
Andreeva was asked to give a piece of advice to another young rising star Hannah Klugman. In response to this, she stated that she is ‘also a kind of a junior’ despite her success at the highest level.
“Okay. Yeah, well, I know her well enough. We've practiced a few times,” she said. “ Well, I'm sure that if I have to give some advice to juniors. I'm like also kind of a junior, too. I don't think that I can give any advices yet. I'm not a star or something like this. I don't think it's right to give some advices from me.
I think that eventually everyone is going to be here sooner or late if you really want it. If they just, I don't know, fight for it, eventually they will be here. Maybe not this year, maybe next year, maybe two years later. Yeah, you just go from juniors to pro tournaments.
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“Honestly, I don't know how to give an advices. I don't have an experience in this. If they just continue to work. If something doesn't go the right way, if something doesn't go how they want it to go, if they just continue to work, eventually they will be here.”
Andreeva’s dream run in the first Grand Slam of the 2024 season finally came to an end as she lost in the fourth round tie to the Czech Republic’s Barbora Krejcikova in a hard-fought contest with a score of 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Saturday.
