Mirra Andreeva - "I don't get my visa yet, we will see if I can participate in Wimbledon or not"
Mirra Andreeva's fairytale run at the 2023 French Open ended on Saturday (June 3) with a loss to Coco Gauff. The sixth seed rallied after losing the first set to defeat Andreeva 6-7(5), 6-1, 6-1 and advance to the fourth round.
But the 16-year-old Andreeva was very impressive in her maiden Grand Slam tournament, which saw her extend her 2023 record to 22-3. She also achieved a significant milestone by winning a set against a Top 10 player.
Sitting at No. 312 in the rankings in April, Andreeva will now climb to a position near the top 100. She could potentially even crack the top 100, depending on the results of other players in the coming week.
In a post-match press conference, Mirra Andreeva revealed that her next tournament is scheduled to be Wimbledon but that her participation is uncertain due to her visa not yet being approved. She did, however, add that if she is unable to compete in SW19, she will compete in some ITF tournaments in the meantime.
"Now I'm limited still in tournaments, so my next tournament has to be Wimbledon. But I don't get my visa yet, so we will see if I can participate in Wimbledon or no. But if not, we will just choose the tournaments and I will just maybe play some ITFs. I don't know yet," she said.
The Russian saw plenty of positives from her participation at Roland-Garros, and she acknowledged her areas for improvement too. Andreeva is committed to learning from her mistakes and continuing to work hard for better results.
"I can take a lot of positive things from here. Passed qualies. I did win a couple of great matches. Yes, for sure there is a lot of positive things to take," Mirra Andreeva said.
"But, yes, and a lot of things also to take from this match. But, well, we will just continue to work. I will realize what I did wrong, and I will correct it. So I hope everything is gonna be okay after," she added.
"I was trying to play, but something didn't work out and I've got disappointed" - Mirra Andreeva
Mirra Andreeva described the first set of her match with Coco Gauff, which had frequent breaks of serve, as "tough." She also mentioned a couple of instances where she accidentally touched the net during the set.
"It was a tough first set. We broke each other a lot of times. I was just playing. That's how game at that moment was, like I've touched the net like maybe two times in a row in the first set," she said.
Andreeva realized that winning the first set wasn't enough to win the match, and was disappointed with her performance in the next two sets. She also found herself dwelling on her mistakes instead of focusing on the game.
"I don't know. I was just playing, and that way I won the first set and we played like for an hour the first set. And so I felt like it was -- it's not enough to win one set to win a match, and I didn't feel like, I don't know," Mirra Andreeva said.
"I was trying to play, but something didn't work out and I've got disappointed, upset, and not really was thinking about the match. I was thinking about my mistakes. I went too deep in this. Yes," she added.