Mirra Andreeva says she’s thrilled to be a Grand Slam champion, however after her win in Saturday’s closing, she talked like a girl who woul want a two-time Grand Slam champion. Like high quality time with a pet, the Grand Slam profitable feeling is one she needs extra of, stated the 19-year-old after her straight units victory over Maja Chwalinkska in Saturday’s Roland Garros closing.
“These emotions are one thing additional particular,” she stated. “Actually, now I’m already considering of how I’m going to arrange for the grass season, how I’m going to play grass tournaments – I really feel like this factor is a little bit bit addicting, and I actually wish to do my finest to expertise all of this for the second time.”
Andreeva, has at all times been good on the Parisian clay, so it’s no shock that her Grand Slam breakout got here right here. She received her first Grand Slam predominant draw match right here in 2023, then reached her first main semifinal in 2024.
She’s now 18-3 lifetime at Roland Garros.
This yr she was an image of focus and willpower as she dealt with all challenges to develop into the youngest Roland Garros ladies’s singles winner since Monica Seles in 1992. She says that visualing victory helped her take it over the end line this weekend in Paris.
“I’ve had a variety of ideas on the way it’s going to occur, if it’s going to occur, when it’s going to occur,” she stated. “I’d say that the sensation in actual life is so significantly better, clearly, than in your desires. It simply feels this trophy and realizing that that is really true, and I can name myself a Grand Slam champion.”
Now that she joined the record of main winners, the celebrity and adulation will solely enhance. Andreeva says she’s not about to let it change her.
And so far as her post-match behavior of thanking herself in her speech – a pleasant custom that has been well-received by the general public, she says she’s going to maintain backing herself it doesn’t matter what.
“I don’t suppose it’s going to vary,” she stated. “I believe it’s all going to remain the identical. Possibly it’s going to vary for the subsequent two or three days, however apart from that, I’m going to remain the identical. I’m not going to vary rather a lot.
“Why not thank your self? As a result of you’re the one which works, you’re the one that’s doing the job, you’re the one that’s feeling all of the nerves. After a while, I spotted that it’s really crucial to thank your self.”
