16-year-old Mirra Andreeva impressed absolutely everyone with her game in recent months. The talented Russian tennis player would like to continue to develop success at Wimbledon, but the tournament organizers have not yet given her a visa. Are they really so afraid that the Russian woman will outshine everyone there?
Andreeva fell in love with the tennis world Mirra has become a sensation this season. Experts have been talking about its prospects for a long time, but then it was something abstract. How many of these young talents then failed to reveal their potential. In the case of Andreeva, everything was serious. She performed well at the «masters» in Madrid, and then began to destroy her opponents not only in qualifying, but also in the main draw of the French Open tennis championship.
The Russian woman confidently passed two circles, and in the third she got on the sixth racket of the world and the finalist of the past “Roland Garros” Corey Gauff. And then Mirra did not lose her head and took the first set in a tie-break, showing her character several times. Unfortunately, then the game of the young star went wrong, and Gauff confidently took the next two games and advanced to the next round. However, this did not at all blur the impression of the Russian woman's excellent performance at Roland Garros, and Gauff herself showered Mirra with compliments after the match. Vesnin, and many others. The 16-year-old's fairy tale at the French Open is over, but her career is just beginning. Someone calls her the new Maria Sharapova, someone, on the contrary, urges not to put pressure on Mirra with such comparisons.
The situation with the visa says a lot about the organizers, but everyone agrees on one thing — Andreeva has a great future ahead, which, apparently, the organizers of Wimbledon are actively trying to prevent. The British, under pressure from the ATP and WTA, nevertheless allowed Russian and Belarusian tennis players this year, but this does not prevent them from doing dirty tricks and provocations. It turned out that they still have not approved Andreeva's visa for participation in the tournament.
«Right now I'm limited in tournaments, my next one will be Wimbledon. But I still haven't got my visa, so we'll see if I can play there. If not, we'll just decide on competitions and I'll play some ITF tournaments,» she said. Andreeva at a press conference after the match with Gauff.
Less than a month remains before the start of Wimbledon. Obviously, tennis players arrive early for such major events to adapt and prepare, so the Brits have a few weeks to approve Mirra's visa. To deny a 16-year-old Russian woman the opportunity to take part in a Grand Slam tournament just because of her citizenship is too disgusting even for them. Having banned the participation of the Russians, they were still forced to watch as a resident of Moscow, now representing Kazakhstan, Elena Rybakina raises the main trophy above her head. Clamping Andreeva with visa issues, the British are spitting into their own well. Mirra will still win and light up in a major tournament, and Wimbledon will then bite their elbows that this did not happen to them.