The Russian tennis player threw a tantrum in the final of Roland Garros. What pissed her off?

An amazing story happened in the final of the French Open among juniors. The rising star of world tennis Alina Korneeva confidently led the score in the decisive match of the junior Roland Garros, but her own mistake at the net pissed her off. She went berserk, and in the next prank, she threw another tantrum.

Good game and first crash

Korneeva after winning the Australian Open was one of the favorites in the tournament in France. By the way, Alina in the Australian final outplayed the same Mirra Andreeva, who is already causing a rustle in adult tennis. At Roland Garros 2023, Mirra won 5 matches, taking into account qualifications, and fell in love with a huge number of fans. Korneeva will probably soon also light up at adult tournaments, but for now she will have to learn how to cope with her nerves.

In the final match, she was opposed by Peruvian Lussiana Pérez-Alacrón (sixth seed). In the first set, Alina won the tie-break with a score of 7:4. In the second installment, the Russian woman continued to control the course of the meeting. With the score 4:2 in her favor, Korneeva tried to catch on to the opponent’s serve and had the opportunity to do so.

When the score was 30:30, Alina reacted to a short shot by Perez-Alacron, ran up to the net, but could not perform a difficult element. The ball hit the net, and then the Russian woman began to get hysterical. In a fit of emotion, she once again hit the ball hard on the net. Good thing it didn’t go somewhere else.

Alina Korneeva / Photo: © Robert Prange / Contributor / Getty Images Sport / Gettyimages.ru

And then the second hysteria

Literally in the next draw, Korneeva lost her nerve again. The Peruvian filed rather averagely, and Alina wanted to solve everything with the very first retaliatory blow. Only now it was like a blow of desperation, and not a prepared action. As a result, the ball hit the net again, and Perez-Alacron left the game. The Russian could not calm down because of her mistakes and threw her racket hard on the court. And she was constantly saying something, but it was difficult to make out what it was from the broadcast.

Fortunately, in the future, the Peruvian herself made a lot of mistakes, so Korneeva still brought the matter to victory and took her second big title in a row. By the way, she became only the third Russian woman with the title at the junior Roland Garros, repeating the achievement of Nadezhda Petrova in 1998 and Daria Kasatkina in 2014. It’s funny that literally on the eve of the final, she said that she had improved in the game at the net and now often uses this strong side. And the hysteria happened just after her mistakes in this element of tennis. Alina is without a doubt a great talent and the future of Russian tennis. It remains only to deal with emotions.