ROLAND GARROS

May 22, 2026

Mirra Andreeva

Press Conference

MIRRA ANDREEVA

THE MODERATOR: Mirra, welcome back to Roland Garros. Can you just let us know how your preparations have been for this tournament, especially given your great results on clay so far this season?

MIRRA ANDREEVA: Yeah, the preparation so far is going great. I love playing in Paris, love playing on these clay courts. I'm super excited to be back.

Not bad result last year, and also I feel like it was a very good start on clay this year, as well. I'm just very excited to start the tournament on Sunday.

THE MODERATOR: Questions English.

Q. You have been coming here for a lot of years now. Do you start to feel at all like you're getting the hang of this more as you're not really a rookie on this tournament anymore at all in spite of how young you are?

MIRRA ANDREEVA: Well, I do feel like I still haven't been here for a while, but yes, this is my fourth year in Paris, and -- oh, actually in 2022 I was playing juniors. It's my fifth year, then.

So, yes, I have been coming here for quite some time, you know, and I'm always super happy to be here. It's obviously a second slam of the year, a special atmosphere. So I do kind of feel like I already am familiar with some of the stuff. I already know the people here that are working. I know a lot of players, as well, yes. But I still feel like I haven't been here for a long time.

Q. You're obviously playing great in singles but also in doubles, you and Diana. What makes you such a good doubles player?

MIRRA ANDREEVA: I think that it's just because I love to play, and when I play doubles, I'm not as stressed and not as nervous, and I really focus on how to have fun. When I play doubles, it reminds me of when me and my sister, we played Ping-Pong, and it's just all about laughs and all about having fun, and we're super competitive, as well.

I have the same feeling when I play doubles. It's just of course I want to win, but it's more, you know, I'm just enjoying the match a lot on the court. So I do think that it's just that I have less stress when I play doubles.

Q. With that being said, is the plan, would you like to try and feel more like you do on the doubles court on the singles court?

MIRRA ANDREEVA: Well, that would be ideal, of course (smiling), but I do think that obviously I really want to do well in singles, and I really want to play well and win a lot of matches.

Obviously, you know, I have a little bit more pressure, and sometimes I put some pressure on myself, which is okay, but I do think that I'm dealing with that a little bit better recently. Obviously I will try to do everything I can to, you know, feel the same way when I play singles.

Q. I'm wondering, I'm speaking to players about self-talk during matches, and I know we have seen you in the past get really hard on yourself, and I'm just wondering, what are some tips that you have learned, whether you got it from a psychologist, from Conchita, from something you read, some of the things you can do on the court to not get down on yourself too much?

MIRRA ANDREEVA: Well, I can say that obviously still there are times when I'm being hard on myself, because, I don't know, for some reason I didn't like how I play or maybe I lost the point that I thought that I should have won.

And I feel like recently it's been better. I'm just really kind of understanding that when I don't react on anything that's happening on the court or when I'm trying to just say good words, positive words to myself, I just feel like it's so much easier to play. I feel like I can think, I can make better decisions, I'm not missing so many shots on the court, as well.

So I just kind of felt the difference a little bit, and I don't really want to go to that negative thinking so much, because I just feel like it's so much harder to play.

So I felt how it was being negative and how it is being positive, and I like the positive side better.

Q. Can I check that you have seen the draw and your first-round opponent? You have obviously played some home-grown players at slams over the last year or so, another one here. What have you learned from those matches previously and how much of a challenge that can be?

MIRRA ANDREEVA: Yeah, of course it's never tricky to play a French player, especially in Paris (smiling), because obviously the crowd is gonna support her as much as they can, and that's totally okay.

I mean, I have some experience even from last year when I played quarters, so I pretty much know what to expect. You know, I'm going to prepare for this match as for any other match, and we will see how it's gonna go, but I hope they're not going to be too hard on me, and we will see.

Yeah, I do think it's going to be a very entertaining match.

Q. I wanted to check, are you participating in the player protest today?

MIRRA ANDREEVA: Well, you know, I respect for what players are doing and I understand what they are doing, and I support them and I feel like we're all united for this decision.

Q. There was some attention in the Madrid final that both you and your opponent had female coaches, which is pretty rare to have in a big match. There's not that many former WTA players who are coaching the WTA now. Do players ask you what it's like having a former WTA player as a coach, and would you recommend for more players to consider this?

MIRRA ANDREEVA: I do think that people cannot force you to, you know, have a female coach or a male coach. It's all really individual. It's all very personal.

For me, I feel great with Conchita, obviously she understands me more than anyone could. She's been through this. She's also a woman. She's played so many matches on tour, she's so experienced. She's a Grand Slam champion.

So, you know, she's just gone through so much throughout her career, and I feel like she understands me better than anyone. It's just, I feel like it's so empowering, as well.

So I'm just super happy that she's my coach and that she's by my side and that she shares all that experience with me and helps me to go through some moments, some tough and some good moments as well through my career.

So I'm just super happy that, you know, we're working together and that she's by my side.

Q. Even though, as you said, you have been on the tour now for a few years, you're still very young. I imagine you want to focus on your career and what you're doing on court. What's it like to participate in something like this and have something to do with off court and not to do with tennis?

MIRRA ANDREEVA: Well, you're asking...

Q. About the protest.

MIRRA ANDREEVA: Okay. Wait, then ask again.

Q. What's it like to participate in something that's off court and quite serious when I imagine you want to be focused on your tennis?

MIRRA ANDREEVA: Yeah, okay, now I get it.

You know, I do think that, as I said, what players are doing is reasonable, and they have a reason behind it. As all of us, we're doing the same thing. You know, we're competing. We're trying our best on the court.

I do think that we have a reason behind it, and I do think that all of us are, as I said, united and all of that.

I don't know, I do think that it's also nice that players are all together and they have the same opinion about that.