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New Career highs for Mirra Andreeva after Australian Open 2024 concludes.

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Mirra Aleksandrovna Andreeva (Russian: Мирра Александровна Андреева; born 29 April 2007) is a Russian professional tennis player. Andreeva has a career-high singles ranking by the WTA of No. 35, achieved on 29 January 2024.[2]

2024: First WTA quarterfinal and top 10 win, Australian Open debut & fourth round, top 35

At the Brisbane International, Andreeva won her first three matches to reach her first WTA quarterfinal, taking out the fourth seed and top 20 player, Liudmila Samsonova, and wildcard Arina Rodionova along the way. At the 2024 Australian Open she defeated Bernarda Pera[16] and next sixth seed Ons Jabeur, her first top-10 win, to reach the third round on her debut at this Major.[17] At age 16 and 263 days, Andreeva was the youngest player in the Open Era to hand a top-10 seed a first-set bagel at a Grand Slam.[18] She was also the second-youngest player in the Open Era to lose fewer than three games against a top-10 seed at a Grand Slam.[19] The youngest was Jelena Dokic, when she defeated world No. 1 Martina Hingis in the first round of 1999 Wimbledon.[20] In the third round of the Australian Open, Andreeva defeated Diane Parry after trailing 1–5 in the final set and saving a match point on her own serve. She was the fourth player in the last 30 years to reach the fourth round in singles before turning 17 at both Wimbledon and the Australian Open after Martina Hingis, Tatiana Golovin and Coco Gauff.

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