Tennis prodigy Mirra Andreeva stuns Aryna Sabalenka at French Open to grow to be youngest semifinalist since 1997

Mirra Andreeva made historical past on Wednesday when she defeated top-ranked tennis professional Aryna Sabalenka within the quarterfinals on the French Open to grow to be the youngest Grand Slam semifinalist in practically 30 years.

Andreeva, a 17-year-old unseeded participant from Russia, gained the match 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-4, and he or she did so by going off script. 

“I all the time play the best way I need to play. We have now a plan with my coach for the match, however after, I neglect all the things, and after I play a match, I don’t have any ideas in my head,” she stated after the match. 

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“So perhaps I’d say that my energy may very well be that I simply play how I need to play and I do no matter I need to do.”

Her unapologetic method to the sport has paid off. Andreeva, who solely turned 17 in April, is now the youngest participant to achieve the semifinals at any Grand Slam since Martina Hingis did so in 1997 at age 16. 

That 12 months, Hingis gained the Australian Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open and was a finalist on the French Open. 

Mirra Andreeva celebrates after profitable match level towards Aryna Sabalenka through the Ladies’s Singles Quarter Last match on Day 11 at Roland Garros on June 05, 2024 in Paris, France.  (High quality Sport Photographs/Getty Photographs)

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Andreeva is taking part in solely in her sixth main event. She is going to subsequent face Italy’s Jasmine Paolini, a 28-year-old who additionally reached her first main semifinal.

However at coronary heart, Andreeva is very like every other teenager. 

“I’d say that I’m nearly like a standard teenager, as a result of I nonetheless should do my college that I don’t love to do. I watch a whole lot of TV collection in my spare time. I watch Netflix. I typically spend an excessive amount of time on my Instagram,” she stated. “However perhaps what makes me a bit completely different is that, I don’t know if I can say that I’m mature, however I really feel myself a mature particular person, and I really feel that I do know what I’m doing.”

Mirra Andreeva talks to the media after defeating Aryna Sabalenka within the quarter-final on Day 11 of the French Open at Roland Garros on June 05, 2024 in Paris, France. (Robert Prange/Getty Photographs)

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Andreeva and Paolini will face off on Thursday morning. Earlier within the day, the ladies’s world No. 1 Iga Swiatek will face off towards Coco Gauff. 

The Related Press contributed to this report. 

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