Mirra Andreeva plans to frame Andy Murray’s tweet lauding her “mental strength”
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An epic, three-set comeback from 16-year-old Mirra Andreeva had most tennis fans glued to their seats on Friday, as she battled back to win 1-6, 6-1, 7-6 (5) over Frenchwoman Diane Parry at the Australian Open.
But Andy Murray, meanwhile, was glued to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter:
Riveted by the Andreeva’s gutsy comeback from a set down and as she turned around a 1-5 deficit in the third, the former ATP No. 1 took issue to one TV commentator’s remark claiming the young Russian “needs to work on (the) mental side” of her game and was being “too hard on herself” in the tough moments.
About 30 minutes after that comment, it was game, set and match for Andreeva—and Murray had the perfect tweet ready to silence her critics.
“Maybe the reason she turned the match round is because of her mental strength,” he wrote on X. “Maybe she turned the match around because she is hard on herself and demands more of herself when she’s losing/playing badly? Winner.”