Mirra Andreeva... Son début de saison est exceptionnel avec deux titres en WTA 1000, à seulement 18 ans. Impressionnante en double avec Diana Shnaider, la Sibérienne a marché sur ses trois premières adversaires à Roland-Garros. En huitièmes, elle a gardé le cap en matant Daria Kasatkina, 6-3, 7-5. Bousculée par l'Australienne dans la deuxième manche, Andreeva a été menée 5-3, a sauvé une balle de set à 5-4, avant de finalement renverser la vapeur et conclure. Elle est la plus jeune à enchaîner deux quarts à Roland-Garros depuis Martina Hingis en 1997 et 1998. Andreeva suit clairement les plus grandes.
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00:00BNP Paribas, partenaire des plus belles histoires de Roland Garros, aux côtés des ramasseurs de balles depuis plus de 50 ans.
00:30En fait, je me souviens que aujourd'hui j'avais beaucoup de points de jeu.
00:40Et j'ai vu que je vais jouer, j'ai vu quand j'ai voulu jouer, j'ai vu que j'ai voulu jouer.
00:48Et j'ai eu beaucoup de points de jeu.
00:50Et j'ai eu l'impression que j'avais de rénage de corner à la main.
00:54Et, vous savez, c'est pas un bon feeling, mais oui, ce match était très intense.
01:01Et nous avons eu beaucoup de diversité dans les points durant le match.
01:08Donc, je suis, encore, heureux que j'ai réussi à continuer de jouer mon jeu et gagner le match à l'endroit.
01:15A couple of those long points you referenced were pretty miraculous that you were getting to those balls
01:22and you managed to turn them in your favour.
01:25Does that give you a little bit of extra satisfaction that you were able to dig in and win those sort of points?
01:32Yeah, of course.
01:34It gives me also a lot of confidence that I know that I'm able to get to those points
01:41and put a lot of balls back in the court.
01:43And I'm able to start the point again.
01:47And I feel like even after running for so long, I'm able to generate more power if I need to.
01:55If I have a ball to attack, I feel like I'm still able to, you know, prepare and hit the ball good,
02:03not just, you know, put it back again.
02:05So, yeah, I guess thanks to my fitness coach that he gives me.
02:10He always puts a lot of work.
02:12So, yeah, I'm, again, I feel that even after long points, I'm able to, you know, start the point again and win it.
02:25Amira, there was that run of four or five games that she won on a trot.
02:29And you even saved a set point in that.
02:34What was going through your head in those, you know, as she came back into the match, won all those points?
02:41Yeah, as I was leading 3-1 and she won four games in a row and she started to be up 5-3 in the score.
02:50So, I just kept telling myself to fight and to try to play my best every point.
02:58And I felt like she raised her level as well in the second set.
03:03But I felt like I was also playing a bit more passive compared to the first set.
03:09So, she used it and she started, you know, putting a lot of balls with more aggression.
03:17So, I just told myself to keep fighting.
03:20And, yeah, on that set point, I don't know, I went to the net.
03:23I don't know what I was doing.
03:25I would never go to the net on a set point.
03:27So, I guess, you know, with this adrenaline, I just did something.
03:33I don't know.
03:33I don't even know how to explain it.
03:35So, I'm just happy that I managed to, you know, close the match in two sets.
03:40Well done, Mira.
03:41There was a nice moment in the latter stages of the match in which you hit a forehand drop shot.
03:47It was not the best, but you still won the point.
03:49And then you pointed at your head to your box.
03:51And I want to ask about the connection with your box and especially Conchita during the matches.
03:56How does your dialogue work?
03:58Is it only encouragement or also tactical, technical stuff?
04:01Because there's a lot of good energy from it.
04:03But is it only good energy or also tactical and stuff like that?
04:06Well, mostly, of course, they support a lot.
04:10And they try to give a lot of energy and pump me up.
04:13But, of course, when Conchita feels like she needs to say something tactical or technical as well,
04:20she's always going to say what she feels like saying.
04:23And that's also what I like, that she doesn't just, you know, support me.
04:28But sometimes when she feels like I need to hear something tactical or technical, she's going to say it.
04:35And I feel like as soon as she says something, of course, I try to listen and to do it on the court.
04:44Mira, congratulations.
04:45When you made the step up from being a great junior to then playing on the main tour,
04:50what were the things that kind of most struck you about playing the best players?
04:54You know, was it the physicality?
04:55Was it something mental?
04:56And I guess then how did you go about kind of bridging that gap?
04:59Yeah, I would say that obviously I think I've improved physically.
05:09I think I am much stronger than I was two years ago.
05:15And also I feel like I think in a different way compared to, again, maybe two years ago.
05:25So I'm much more positive right now on the court.
05:29And I think that also that is one of the keys for me.
05:32And, yeah, I'm always trying to now always fight for every point no matter what happens.
05:38And I think that for me the most, like the most important two points that changed is I improved physically and also mentally.
05:47Well done today.
05:52You're quite friendly with Dasha.
05:54And, I mean, you're a pretty friendly person seemingly.
05:57I imagine these last couple of years you've probably made a fair amount of friends on the tour.
06:02How has it been your adjustment to becoming opponents to them when you're on the court and balancing that out?
06:12And does having a sister who you've been competing against for a long time, does that play any role in it and sort of getting you ready for that preparation?
06:23Yeah, for me it's completely different matches when I play against a friend or when I play against my sister.
06:31Because, first of all, when I play against Erika, I am ten times more nervous.
06:39And I think she is as well.
06:42So those are completely different matches.
06:45So when I first played against Dasha, it was much more difficult for me to, you know, stay focused and to really not to be nice on the court.
06:58But, for example, compared to the last match we played against each other, today I just knew that, of course, she's going to want to beat me on the court.
07:07And I don't know what changed, but today it was not that hard to, you know, kind of change my mindset and step on court and kind of be opponents.
07:18And I don't know how, but I managed to kind of tell myself that I'm playing against the ball, not against the opponent.
07:24So I just tried to focus on the ball that I have to hit.
07:30And I was able to keep this focus throughout the whole match.
07:34So I'm proud of myself for being able to do so.
07:40Why does playing your sister make you so nervous?
07:46Well, I would say the first thing is because she knows me probably better than anyone.
07:54She knows all my sacred secrets.
07:57She knows everything that's going on in my life.
08:01And so do I, I hope.
08:03So, you know, she knows how I'm going to play.
08:07She knows exactly which shot I'm going to do because obviously we talk.
08:12Maybe now it's better to, you know, not talk a lot about tennis because if you want to compete against each other,
08:18I think that maybe it's better to kind of talk about anything else but tennis.
08:23So I know what she's going to do on court.
08:26We've been practicing together since I was 10 years old.
08:32So I know exactly at which moment she's going to do a drop shot.
08:37I know exactly at which moment she's going to hit hard.
08:40And she knows it as well.
08:42So that's what makes it hard because we know that we know each other.
08:46And we try to create something new on court.
08:49And then everything goes completely, you know, down the hill because we don't play like this.
08:55So it's super complicated.
08:57If I'm going to start to explain it all, it's going to take 10 minutes.
09:00So we're just going to stop here.
09:04Hi, Mira.
09:05Congrats.
09:06To follow up on this relationship with Dasha, you won a match today and a trophy too with a wristband.
09:14Can you talk a little bit about this entertaining moment and Dasha's fair play also on tour in general?
09:21Yeah, she's a great person and a great player.
09:24So I kind of had a feeling that after the match she's going to do something like this.
09:29And I knew that if I would lose, I would also, you know, do something funny to kind of, yeah, to a bit kind of relax the atmosphere.
09:41And also not to have this tense and pressure around us.
09:48So when I won the match, I knew that she's going to do something like this.
09:51And when she threw a wristband at me, it was funny.
09:54I think it was a nice gesture also from her.
09:59But after that, we just exchanged kind words.
10:02And she told me congrats.
10:04Of course, I said it was a good match.
10:06And so after that, I kept the wristband.
10:09So it's going to be in my bag for now.
10:14Hi, Mira.
10:15Another question about Conchita.
10:18What has she brought to your game specifically on clay?
10:22In what areas have you improved your game on clay?
10:25I think that first that she brought to my game is a lot of positive.
10:33Then if we talk about tactical and maybe technical stuff, she just kind of teaches me how to build the point.
10:44If we talk about clay, how to build the point and expect that the point probably is going to be longer than on a hard court.
10:52And how to, if needed, how to start the point again one, two or three times.
10:59So I'm not going to tell you exactly what she tells me.
11:02I'm going to keep it to myself.
11:04But overall, it's just little things like this.
