Tennis
Mirra Andreeva lost millions due to a team miscalculation. Tennis star’s shocking confession
The Russian lost tens of millions due to an erroneous decision by her own team.
Tennis player Mirra Andreeva at the last moment lost the opportunity to compete at the WTA Final Tournament in singles.
It turned out that the culprit was not problems with documents, but an erroneous decision by the team. The miscalculation cost the best tennis player in Russia tens of millions of rubles.
“She doesn’t have a visa”
Now Mirra is playing at the Final Tournament in Riyadh only in doubles, but the first racket of Russia could also play in singles. Andreeva kept her chances until the last, but only six points were missing to get into the top eight. The ticket to Saudi Arabia was stolen from under the nose of our athlete by ex-Russian Elena Rybakina, who successfully performed at the tournament in Tokyo.
Mirra could relatively easily maintain her place in the top 8 of the world rankings, but to do this she needed to play in the capital of Japan. Andreeva did not register for the tournament due to unsuccessful results. The decision is quite understandable, but the situation was stirred up by Australian tennis player Ellen Perez, who reported that our athlete did not have documents to travel to the country.
“She doesn’t have a visa to play in Tokyo,” Perez wrote on her social networks.
Many took this message incorrectly, believing that the Russian woman was unable to get to Japan due to bureaucratic problems. Against the backdrop of this interpretation, the financial losses of the 18-year-old tennis player looked catastrophic, because for just one participation in three group stage matches at the Final Tournament, each tennis player receives $340 thousand (27.5 million rubles). Each victory adds another $355 thousand (28.7 million rubles) to the bank account. The prize money for the next stages is already in the millions of dollars.
“It turned out to be the wrong decision.”
Already in Riyadh, Mirra clarified the issue with the visa. According to the Russian woman, she had no problems in this regard. She missed the tournament in Tokyo after communicating with the team, which advised against going to Japan due to unsuccessful performances.
— We talked with the team and decided to skip the tournament. In the end, this turned out to be the wrong decision. Knowledge comes with experience. This is only my second season in adult tennis, and even then it’s incomplete. I think we will learn a lesson from this, gain experience, and next time, I think we will not repeat this mistake,” AFP quoted Andreeva as saying.
Now Mirra is only fighting for the doubles title with Diana Schneider. Unfortunately, the opening match was unsuccessful for the Russians. They lost in a bitter fight to Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe.
Andreeva still has a small chance to compete in the singles tournament if one of the participants gets injured, because Mirra is in first reserve status. But the first matches have already been played there, and no one is in a hurry to film yet.
Source: Sportbox
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Tennis
22-28.12 Schedule and results of matches between Ukrainians and Ukrainians at ITF tournaments
Sport.ua presents the schedule and results of matches of Ukrainian tennis players at the ITF World Tour tournaments from December 15 to 21
men
M15 Antalya (Türkiye – location), Antalya Series
Singles, elimination, first round
- Maxim Khlyvnyuk (Ukraine) – Ibrahim Yego (Kenya) – absent
- Filip Pavic (Kosovo) – Andrey Bilata (Ukraine) – without
Singles, qualifiers, second round
- Maxim Khlyvnyuk (Ukraine) – Stefanos Schinas (Greece, 15) – 23.12, at 10:00 at the latest
- Alexandru Balan (Canada, 6) – Andrey Bilata (Ukraine) – 23.12, 12:30 at the latest
Singles, first round
- TVA – Nikita Bilozertsev (Ukraine, 6) –TVA
- TVA – Ilya Biloborodko (Ukraine) –TVA
- TVA – Alexander Ovcharenko (Ukraine, 2) –TVA
Doubles, first round
- Dillon Beckles (USA) and Alexander Wagner (Austria) – Nikita Bilozertsev (Ukraine) and Alp Horoz (Türkiye) – TVA
- William Mirarchi (Italy) and Daniil Stepanov – Mihai Marinescu (Romania) and Alexander Ovcharenko (Ukraine, 4) –TVA
M15 Monastir (Tunisia – difficult), FTT by Magic Hotel Tours
Singles, elimination, first round
- Kazuki Nishiwaki (Japan, 6) – Arseniy Mironov (Ukraine) – 6:0, 6:0
Women
W15 Antalya (Türkiye – ground), Antalya Series
Singles, elimination, first round
- Anastasia Necule (Romania) – Yaroslava Sribnaya (Ukraine) –TVA
- Arina Yakusheva (Ukraine) – Naz Kaynak (Türkiye) – TVA
- Jamie Collinson (Australia) – Helen Grab (Ukraine) –TVA
- Serafima Vasilyeva (Ukraine) – Öykü Şahbaz (Ukraine) – none
Singles, qualifiers, second round
- Eva Galievskaya (Ukraine, 6) – Honoka Uchiyama (Japan) or Alisa Aksiyanova – TVA
- Serafima Vasilyeva (Ukraine) – Sabina Shaidullina or Ema Garayda (Czech Republic, 14) – TVA
Doubles, first round
- Asylzhan Arystanbekova (Kazakhstan) and Ingkar Dyusebay (Kazakhstan) – Sara Balan (Romania) and Eva Galievskaya (Ukraine) –TVA
- Nanari Katsumi (Romania) and Honoka Uchiyama (Japan) – Helen Grab (Ukraine) and Arina Yakusheva (Ukraine) –TVA
Source: Sport UA
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20-year-old American tennis player Lerner Tien (ATP 28) Became the winner of the ATP 2025 Junior Final Tournament.
The Americans were defeated in the final of the competition held on indoor courts in Jeddah (Saudi Arabia). Alexander Blox (Belgium, ATP 116) 1 hour 1 minute.
Next Generation ATP Finals 2025. Final, December 21
Lerner Tien (AMERICA) [1] –Alexander Blox (Belgium) [2] – 4:3 (7:4), 4:2, 4:1
Tien played in the Next Generation finals for the second time. He lost to João Fonseca in the decisive match in 2024.
Lerner suffered one defeat, losing to Rafael Hodar in the first round of the group stage in Jeddah. He then defeated Blox as well as Martin Landaluse, Nikolay Budkov Kjaer and Nishesh Basavareddy.
Tien becomes the second Youth Finals champion after Brandon Nakashima – Nakashima won the Next Gen award in 2022.
Lerner Thien received $502,250 in prize money for his victory at the Next Gen ATP Finals 2025.
Photo gallery of the award ceremony
Source: Sport UA
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The final match will be held on December 21 ATP Youth Final Tournament 2025 In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The Net Gen ATP Finals cup will be played on: Alexander Blocks (Belgium, ATP 116) and Lerner Tien (USA, ATP 28). The starting time of the meeting is 19.00 Kyiv time.
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This will be the first head-to-head meeting between the rivals at Tour level and the third if you take into account the junior competitions (1:1).
The winner of the match will receive the Junior Final award.
Source: Sport UA
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