Mirra Andreeva — tennis player with roots in the Russia
Mirra Aleksandrovna Andreeva was born in Krasnoyarsk, in Siberia, on 29 April 2007, the younger daughter of Alexander and Raisa Andreev. Her elder sister, Erika, is also a professional tennis player. It was their mother who chose tennis for them, enrolling Erika first; Mirra began at the age of six, at the Krasnoyarsk Tennis Hall club, under the coach Marina Pavlova.
In search of better training the family moved west, to Sochi according to her WTA profile, where the girls could play on different surfaces, and to Moscow according to other accounts. At twelve she switched to distance learning to make room for tennis. In 2022 the sisters began training at the Elite Tennis Center in Cannes, in France, with the coaches Jean-René Lisnard and Jean-Christophe Faurel, and Cannes has been her base since. That year she won four tournaments on the ITF circuit, and in January 2023 she reached the girls' final at the Australian Open.
She came to wider notice in May 2023 at the Madrid Open, where, as a fifteen-year-old wild card ranked 194th, she beat Leylah Fernandez, Beatriz Haddad Maia and Magda Linette to reach the last sixteen. In 2024 she reached her first Grand Slam semi-final, at the French Open. At the Paris Olympics that summer, competing as an Individual Neutral Athlete, she won the silver medal in women's doubles with Diana Shnaider, and in October she entered the top twenty. In 2025 she won two WTA 1000 titles, in Dubai and at Indian Wells, and entered the world's top ten; with Shnaider she also won doubles titles in Brisbane and Miami. She is coached by the former Spanish player Conchita Martínez.
In 2026 she won titles in Adelaide and Linz and reached the final in Madrid. At the French Open, ranked eighth in the world, she reached her first Grand Slam final, where on 6 June she beat the Polish qualifier Maja Chwalińska 6-3, 6-2. Aged nineteen, she became the youngest women's champion at Roland Garros since Monica Seles in 1992, and went one step further than her coach, who had lost the French Open final of 2000 to Mary Pierce; Pierce presented her with the trophy. The next day the men's title went to Alexander Zverev, the son of two Soviet players from Sochi. Her career-high ranking is No. 5 in the world.
"Learned the game in Krasnoyarsk, trained in Sochi (or Moscow, by other accounts), and from 2022 at the Elite Tennis Center in Cannes, France, where she lives with her sister Erika."
Migration storyTracing the roots — Krasnoyarsk (Russia)
Born in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, in 2007, she began playing there at six and trained in Russia before moving to Cannes with her sister in 2022. She competes for Russia; at the Paris Olympics of 2024 she played as an Individual Neutral Athlete.
Krasnoyarsk (Russia). Today, the former Soviet space comprises fifteen sovereign independent states.