The feat of the new star of Russian tennis. On the character pulled the match in the USA

Rising Russian tennis star Mirra Andreeva is playing her first full season at the senior level. She has already managed to make some noise on the ground of Roland Garros and Wimbledon grass, but now the 16-year-old athlete is mastering hard in the USA.

At the tournament in Cleveland, the girl managed to start with a victory over the German Tamara Korpach. However, you can’t call it an easy game: after a successful start, the fans were waiting for a valid ending.

The planned defeat

Andreeva and Korpach have already met on grass in the qualifications for the Wimbledon tournament in June: then, according to the results of three sets, our tennis player was stronger. On hard, the girls played with each other for the first time. The 28-year-old German woman has recently practiced quite a lot on hard surface, but her young rival had little such experience at the adult level.

The meeting began with Corpach’s mistakes. The German woman made a mistake twice on her serve and allowed the Russian woman to make a break. Then Mirra took her serve, and all subsequent games in the first set. The German woman left only six draws, having failed in all the rest. After 20 minutes of the match, the score was 6:0 in favor of the 16-year-old Russian woman – a rout was planned. However, often in such situations, athletes relax …

Korpacz temporarily left the court, but did not refuse to continue the game. The representative of Germany began the second set much more confidently: she took the first game to zero, spoiled Andreeva’s nerves on her serve. For the time being, none of the tennis players could get ahead, but in the sixth game Mirra faltered: taking advantage of the opponent’s mistakes, the German took the lead 4:2. In the seventh game, our athlete could repay the debt to her opponent, but, having reached the score of 40:40, she was unable to rectify the situation. Shouting “I hate!”, the Russian woman tried to perform a miracle in the end, but Korpach did not allow it.

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Long-awaited victory

After that, Andreeva had to temporarily leave the court. The pause, as it turned out, was not superfluous at all: in the starting game of the decisive set, the Russian woman did not leave her opponent a chance. However, this time it was not worth waiting for a series of mistakes from the German: Korpach did not give up her serve. In the fourth game, Mirra was close to a turning point, but missed a break point – 2:2.

In the fifth game, Mirra again left her opponent no chance, however, it was necessary not only to take their draws, but also to take the opponent’s serves. In the sixth game, Andreeva finally succeeded: acting on defense, she forced Korpach to make mistakes. The Russian woman pulled out the most difficult balls and forced the German tennis player to rush around the corners of the site. After another shot into the net, Korpach had to capitulate – 4:2 in favor of the representative of our country.

The joy of Mirra’s fans was short-lived: soon the score was evened again. It seemed that the affairs of the Russian woman completely went wrong. Korpach took the lead and was already preparing to serve for the match. However, after a protracted shootout and a thwarted cross-country, the German did not get to victory.

After the devastating first set, of course, no one expected such an ending. In the valid 11th game, Andreeva led 40:0, delighting the fans with both chic rallies and an ace. Then the opponent equalized the score, but still faltered on the tie-break. The score was 40:40 in the final 12th game: only from the fourth match point Mirra managed to snatch victory after 2 hours and 17 minutes on the court.