Mirra Andreeva was asked to give British junior star advice with superb response: "I'm not a star, I'm also kind of a junior"
WTAMonday, 22 January 2024 at 05:00
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.
“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.
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