By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Tuesday April 16, 2024
One of many rising forces on the WTA Tour has paired with a legend…
16-year-old Mirra Andreeva is conducting a path with former Grand Slam champion Conchita Martinez this week in Rouen, the place the Forty third-ranked Russian is at present into the second spherical on the Open Capfinances Rouen Metropole 2024.
“To date, so good,” mentioned Andreeva, who defeated Nadia Podoroska 6-1, 6-3 in first-round motion, “I prefer it, I hope she likes it too.
Mirra Andreeva’s fast press solutions in Rouen:
1. How do you’re feeling after your 1st match?
2. How is your wrist?
3. How do you’re feeling about enjoying on clay?
4. What do you consider Rouen?
5. Are you able to inform us about your collaboration with Conchita Martinez?🎥: openrouen | IG pic.twitter.com/JR35bcywUH
— Melanie Lautrup (@melanie_lautrup) April 15, 2024
Andreeva is 6-4 in 2024 with a visit to the spherical of 16 at this yr’s Australian Open. She misplaced within the first spherical at Indian Wells to Katie Volynets and subsequently pulled out of the Miami Open with a wrist damage, which she says is okay now.
“We’ll see the way it will go after which we are going to resolve about our subsequent tournaments,” mentioned Andreeva, who will flip 17 on April 29. “I can not say there are particular facets we’re engaged on. However the very first thing we labored on was my slice, as a result of she was a superb slicer. So she advised me some tips, and I am making an attempt to make use of it when I’ve time and a superb risk on courtroom.”
Martinez, the 1994 Wimbledon champion and a former World No.2, additionally coached former World No.1s Garbine Muguruza and Karolina Pliskova. She began working with Andreeva a number of weeks in the past, and Rouen is the primary match they’re contesting collectively throughout their trial interval.