Russia’s main hope took beautiful revenge on the Ukrainian hysterical woman. She proved everything on the court.

The rising star of world tennis, Mirra Andreeva, continues to gain positions in the rankings and climb into the elite of the WTA tour. After a good performance at a major tournament in Beijing, the 16-year-old Russian woman found herself in the top 50 for the first time in her career. Mirra has a chance to fly even higher this week, which she is spending in Hong Kong.

It is interesting that already in the first round the lot brought Andreeva together with a scandalous Ukrainian woman who demanded that the athlete from Russia be removed for liking her on social networks.

Excuses and cries

In the opening round of the tournament in Hong Kong, Mirra played with Ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremskaya. Previously, the girls met at a clay tournament in Lausanne, and then the Russian defeated her opponent, giving her only two games in the second set. In Hong Kong, Andreeva made her debut as a player in the top 50 of the WTA rankings.

Yastremskaya strengthened her position in the top hundred, rising to 97th place. True, her career will now always be accompanied by the ridiculous doping story that she got into two years ago. Then a prohibited drug was found in Diana’s body, which supposedly got there… after sex. Incredibly, the Ukrainian woman was acquitted!

Dayana Yastremskaya / Photo: © Robert Prange / Contributor / Getty Images Sport / Gettyimages.ru

The meeting between Yastremskaya and Andreeva, as expected, took place without the traditional handshakes in tennis. Alas, this will not surprise anyone. Especially if you remember how Dayana screamed, demanding that Mirra be removed from tournaments because of… likes on social networks. Fortunately, things didn’t come to such insanity, and Internet users massively supported Andreeva.

No chance for a Ukrainian

Mirra approached the new round of confrontation in good shape. It is unlikely that she recalled the machinations of her opponent, but a confident victory would be an excellent response to the provocation of a frankly weaker opponent.

In the first set, games were exchanged and none of the girls managed to achieve a significant advantage. However, in the end Mirra was better. First, she held the difficult ninth game on her serve, and then closed the game with a break. Yastremskaya simply lacked concentration and skill at the decisive moment.

Mirra Andreeva / Photo: © VCG / Contributor / Visual China Group / Gettyimages.ru

The beginning of the second game was left to the Ukrainian, who pulled out two of the hardest games on the over-under. However, Andreeva quickly won back the gap, and then the tennis players exchanged games on their serve. With the score 3:3, Dayana made three double faults, and Mirra made a break without any effort. Despite her youth, Andreeva played the rest of the match like a grandmaster, not allowing her opponent to even think about a comeback. After the final play, the final score was displayed on the scoreboard – 6:4, 6:3.

Upward spirit

The victory over Yastremskaya was not a sensation for Andreeva. But Mirra’s next rival will be more serious. In the second round, the Russian will meet either Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, seeded number one in Hong Kong, or Canadian Leila Fernandez.

But we can already say for sure that the 16-year-old tennis player will rise even higher in the WTA rankings at the end of the week. She is currently ranked 50th in the world, and her success in the game with Yastremskaya brought her to an intermediate 48th place. Judging by her form and attitude, the top thirty is just around the corner.

And Yastremskaya can only scour social networks in search of the “wrong” likes. After all, writing denunciations is much easier than killing yourself in training and proving your worth on the court.