Mirra Andreeva

Press Conference

K. SINIAKOVA/M. Andreeva

4-6, 7-6, 6-3

THE MODERATOR: Mirra, hard luck, today. Great battle out there. What made the difference and what made Katerina such a difficult opponent?

MIRRA ANDREEVA: Yeah, of course she's a tricky opponent to face. She plays a lot of doubles, so she has good hands, good skills. I've never played against her.

I mean, it was a tough match, of course. Was not the best day for me in terms of how I played, but also a lot of credits to her. She played good. She showed some good tennis on the court. Wishing her the best luck for the tournament.

THE MODERATOR: Questions.

Q. As you left the court, you probably know what I'm talking about, looked like you were kind of swearing in the direction of, was it supporters, your team? What happened from your perspective?

MIRRA ANDREEVA: Well, of course I can say that there were a lot of emotions that I was going through after the loss. But of course I'm not really proud of how I managed it. I'm not really proud of how I handled it in the end.

Those are the things that really need to work on soon. I don't know. Not in the future but whenever I get the chance.

Yeah, I hope that I can work on it and I get better in that, as well.

Q. Was it at the crowd?

MIRRA ANDREEVA: It was to myself, to everyone, basically. I mean, after the loss, I just get very angry, so I say those things sometimes to myself. I mean, first to myself, of course, but then, yeah, it was just anger coming out, just a lot of emotions. Not really towards anyone.

Q. How do you pull yourself back together when you've got a doubles match coming up? What did you do in the interim? Were you on your phone at all, were you talking to Conchita, your family? What happened between getting off the one court and knowing you have to get right back on another?

MIRRA ANDREEVA: Yeah, I was just stuck in the locker room, scrolling Reels in Instagram, trying to get my mind off of it.

Other than that, I was just, yeah, trying to get ready for doubles, because obviously, I mean, I lost my singles match. It's not like I'm going to go on court and tank my doubles because I don't feel like playing.

I just had to calm down, get ready for doubles, warm up. Then we went on court with Vicky. I just had a lot of fun. It's just nice that we also won the match. It was a real battle out there today, as well. She helped me to feel better a little bit, to at least win the doubles match today.

Yeah, with her, it was just easy to kind of forget a little bit about the singles match on the court.

Q. You have had some tight losses and tough matches. Are you kind of thinking about that, talking about that with Conchita about kind of how to change that pattern?

MIRRA ANDREEVA: Yeah, there were, I think, what, last three matches that I lost, I was, like, so up in the score, had a lot of opportunities, starting with the loss in Doha to Vicky, then to Amanda in Dubai, now here.

Yeah, there were a lot of opportunities that I didn't take. I mean, I'm just gonna talk to my team about it. We didn't talk yet about the match.

Yeah, we're just gonna talk and see what is the best way to handle this, and we're just gonna work and try to get better.

Q. Players often have role models for how they play, but do you also have role models in tennis where you think they have such good temperament, you like how they handle their losses? Is there another player, a retired player, you look to for a model?

MIRRA ANDREEVA: In terms of game style, I think one of my idols is Martina Hingis. I really love her as a person and as a player as well.

I was actually thinking about it recently. I think the one person that was handling losses very well was Serena Williams, like I've never heard or seen her upset or, you know, even I remember, like, she was losing finals on the slams, and she would always smile and be happy for her opponent that she won the match and she got the trophy.

So maybe it's something that I can also try to learn, and yeah, we'll see how that's gonna go. Yeah, we'll see.