Mirra Andreeva Didn’t Expect Happiness of Winning Grand Slam Title to ‘Disappear So Quickly’  

Mirra Andreeva is the latest woman to experience the euphoria of winning a Grand Slam title. The straight-set win over Poland’s Maja Chwalinska in the French Open final made her the cynosure of all eyes, and she greatly enjoyed all the attention she received from every corner.

But what she did not expect was the happiness to end so quickly. She thinks everyone has moved on from what happened last Saturday on Court Philippe-Chatrier. The 19-year-old, also the first woman from Russia to win a Major singles title since Maria Sharapova‘s triumph here in 2014, was very nervous on the day of the match.

But as the day progressed, her nerves gradually calmed down. Her win over “tricky” Chwalinska and becoming a Grand Slam champion for the first time also did not put any added pressure on her because she loves talking and was “happy about all the attention“.

Those incredible emotions, the euphoria and adrenaline of realizing you’ve won a Grand Slam, were real. The only thing I didn’t expect was for them to disappear so quickly. Now I’m already thinking that in two days I have to get back to training. It’s like everyone has forgotten about it, and I am too, little by little. I thought the euphoria would last a few more days, but now I think: ‘Well, I won, and that’s it.’

Mirra Andreeva told Championat 

Andreeva, the third-youngest woman to taste Grand Slam glory, will next focus on the grass swing, which is underway in various cities across Europe. She was scheduled to play at the Berlin Open, but she withdrew from it.

The Russian ace has never played a final on grass, and at Wimbledon, she produced her best performance when she reached the quarterfinals last year, losing the match to Belinda Bencic.

Mirra Andreeva says she did not have the same confidence as Alexander Zverev about winning a Major

In March this year, during an interview with Tennis Channel, Alexander Zverev said he believed he could win a Grand Slam title this year. And he did it.

After beating Maja Chwalinska, Mirra Andreeva was back on Court Philippe-Chatrier again, this time to watch Zverev become the newest French Open champion after a five-set thriller versus Flavio Cobolli that lasted over four hours.

Zverev says he believes he will win a Grand Slam this year:

“I know I’m probably not gonna break any records. One of the only things I care about is improving my game to win a Slam. That’s my main focus. That’s my main goal. I do feel like I’m capable. Last year I didn’t feel… pic.twitter.com/P4vgWBB7VR

— The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) March 27, 2026

Many had expected Andreeva to win a Major one day. And the teenager, during her interview with Championat, was asked whether she, too, like Zverev, believed at the start of the season that she had the chance to win a Major this year.

I actually wasn’t sure the Grand Slam would come this year. I wasn’t sure if it would come at all. I tried not to tell myself anything about it, like, ‘I have to win a Grand Slam,’ because so many people were already talking about it. I thought that even if I did win, it wouldn’t happen now. Maybe, I don’t know, in a year or two. There was no moment where I felt, ‘Okay, that’s it, I’ll win a Grand Slam this year.’ I definitely didn’t have the same confidence as Sascha Zverev (laughs ).

Zverev withdrew from the Stuttgart Open, where he finished as the runner-up last year. He lost to Taylor Fritz in the final, registering his fifth consecutive defeat at the hands of the American.

At Wimbledon, Zverev has never made it past the fourth round, and in fact, it’s the only Major where he has yet to progress to the quarterfinals. The 29-year-old won his first title of the season in Paris. Before this event, he made it to the final of the Madrid Open but couldn’t go past Jannik Sinner.

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