Mirra Andreeva badly wanted to make top-20 so she could reward herself with pet dog

Mirra Andreeva discovered an attention-grabbing solution to inspire herself to interrupt into the top-20 as quickly as attainable because the 17-year-old determined that will be the second when she would reward herself by getting a canine as a pet. 

After successful her maiden WTA 1000 title in Dubai in late February, the 17-year-old went from No. 14 to ninth-ranked participant on the WTA Tour and that was her first time being ranked contained in the top-10. Later in an interview with Tennis Channel, the Russian claimed she wasn’t conscious of her rating milestone. 

Following Andreeva’s quarterfinal win over Elina Svitolina, a reporter requested the Russian the way it was attainable that she did not know that she turned a top-10 participant after Dubai. That is when she revealed that she just about stopped following the rankings after making it into the top-20.

Andreeva: I used to be enjoying for a canine

“Earlier than, I used to be all the time checking dwell rankings, as a result of earlier than, I used to be enjoying for a canine. So after each match I play, I’d examine the dwell rankings to see if I did it,” the two-time WTA winner revealed. 

“However now it isn’t that I do not care, however I attempt to not concentrate on that, and I attempt to concentrate on the match that I’ve to play. I like this. I’d say it is fairly straightforward, as a result of I do not take into consideration the rankings or the factors I’ve to defend if I’ve to, so I simply do not actually comply with the rankings or something, like it is a bit simpler for me.”

When you marvel when precisely Andreeva entered the top-20 membership for the primary time, it occurred on October seventh final 12 months. 

In her Indian Wells presser, the 17-year-old additionally shared that she was nonetheless within the strategy of getting a canine and it will doubtless be a feminine labradoodle.