{"id":16035,"date":"2026-05-03T03:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T03:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/16035\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T03:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T03:46:16","slug":"mirra-andreeva-in-tears-and-issues-apology-after-breaking-promise-in-madrid-open-final-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/16035\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirra Andreeva in tears and issues apology after breaking promise in Madrid Open final | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mirra Andreeva<\/a> broke down in tears during an emotional runner-up speech at the Madrid Open, and apologised for crying. The No. 9 seed couldn\u2019t bear to face her team after suffering a 6-3 7-5 defeat to Marta Kostyuk<\/a> in Sunday\u2019s final and started sobbing when she attempted to thank them during the trophy presentation.<\/p>\n

Andreeva cried into a towel on her bench immediately after the match, and still looked heartbroken as she addressed the crowd during her speech. She was able to get through it unscathed, congratulating Kostyuk and thanking the fans and tournament staff, but struggled as soon as she mentioned her own camp.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd of course, thanks to my team for always being there for me,\u201d Andreeva said at the end of her speech as her voice cracked, and she bowed her head and cried. Through sobs, the 19-year-old apologised and revealed that she didn\u2019t want to shed any tears.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sorry. I promised myself I\u2019m not going to cry. I\u2019m sorry,\u201d she added. Andreeva then held up her runner-up plate so she didn\u2019t have to look at coach Conchita Martinez and the rest of her team, and was able to finish her speech.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just not gonna look at you, because it\u2019s easier like this,\u201d she said. \u201cThanks to my team for always being there for me, supporting me all of the time, when it\u2019s easy and when it\u2019s hard.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know it\u2019s sometimes maybe not easy to work with me, but I really appreciate all of your support and everything you do for me, so thank you so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andreeva and Kostyuk both came into the Madrid Open final full of form, already winning titles on the clay this season \u2013 Andreeva in Linz and Kostyuk in Rouen. But it was the Ukrainian, who had never even reached a WTA 1000 final before, who came out of the gates swinging.<\/p>\n

Kostyuk saved two set points on her serve, shutting the door on a potential Andreeva comeback and winning the biggest title of her career. And the ninth seed was full of praise for her opponent after the match, despite her disappointment.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, of course, I would like to congratulate Marta and her team for an amazing win today and for how your clay season is going so far as well,\u201d Andreeva said. \u201cYou won two tournaments in a row, so you\u2019re playing very well, so congrats for the win today as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pair didn\u2019t shake hands at the conclusion of the match, as Ukrainian star Kostyuk has not shaken hands with any of her Russian or Belarusian colleagues since the war in Ukraine<\/a> broke out. But Kostyuk still applauded Andreeva as she took to the stage to collect her runner-up plate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mirra Andreeva broke down in tears during an emotional runner-up speech at the Madrid Open, and apologised for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9193,82,4828,9185,6415,1972],"class_list":{"0":"post-16035","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-madrid","8":"tag-andreeva-vs-kostyuk","9":"tag-madrid","10":"tag-madrid-open","11":"tag-madrid-open-final","12":"tag-mirra-andreeva","13":"tag-tennis-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}