At 15, a young Russian tennis player creates the feat at the WTA tournament in Madrid

Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credit: OSCAR BARROSO / SPAIN DPPI / DPPI VIA AFP 18:50 p.m., April 26, 2023

15-year-old Russian Mirra Andreeva beat Canada's Leylah Fernandez 6-3, 6-4 on Wednesday, becoming the third player of her age to win a Masters-1000 match on the WTA Tour. Other 15-year-olds to have won a Masters 1000 main draw match are Coco Gauff (in 2019 in Miami) and Catherine Bellis (in 2015 in Miami, where she spent the first two rounds).

Mirra Andreeva, born in 2007, who turns 16 in 3 days, won 6-3, 6-4 against Leylah Fernandez, 49th in the world, at the WTA 1000 in Madrid.

The Russian player has just won two consecutive ITF 60K titles in Switzerland and is 194th in the WTA rankings. pic.twitter.com/bPeusXwNzL

— Tennis Legend (@TennisLegende) April 26, 2023

On Wednesday, Andreeva also became the second 15-year-old to beat a top-50 WTA opponent in a tournament of this magnitude after Bellis against Zarina Diyas (in the second round of the Miami tournament in 2015).

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Australian Open Junior Finalist

Finalist of the last Australian Open in juniors, Andreeva won the first victory of her career in a main draw of a WTA tournament. In the second round on Thursday, the young Russian, who turns 16 in three days, will meet Brazil's Beatriz Haddad Maia, the number 13 seed in the Madrid tournament.