{"id":321825,"date":"2025-10-21T18:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/321825\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T18:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:38:11","slug":"lindsay-davenport-suggests-mirra-andreeva-may-have-made-a-mistake-as-her-struggles-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/321825\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsay Davenport suggests Mirra Andreeva may have made a mistake as her struggles continue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mirra Andreeva is a big topic of conversation at the moment, with her struggles on show in recent months.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andreeva won Indian Wells<\/a> and the Dubai Tennis Championships<\/a> earlier this year, and has reached a career-high ranking of world number five.<\/p>\n

Despite remaining in the top 10 of the WTA<\/a> rankings, Andreeva has appeared very distressed on court<\/a> in recent months and has lost her last three matches.<\/p>\n

This has been far from ideal for Andreeva<\/a> in her bid to qualify for the WTA Finals<\/a>, with Elena Rybakina<\/a> breathing down her neck, and now Lindsay Davenport<\/a> has pointed out a recent mistake she has made.<\/p>\n

\"MirraPhoto by Robert Prange\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Andreeva\u2019s latest defeat came against world number 171 Lin Zhu at the Ningbo Open<\/a>, the WTA 500 tournament where she was the top seed.<\/p>\n

When discussing Andreeva\u2019s recent misfortunes, former world number one players Tracy Austin<\/a> and Davenport admitted their concerns for the 18-year-old.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah this has actually been tough to watch for Andreeva, who had such a great start to the year,\u201d Austin said when speaking on Tennis Channel. \u201cThis was against the wildcard Zhu in the second round, and Andreeva actually won the first set, but then started to get so emotional. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s so many losses since Wimbledon, she\u2019s tired, she\u2019s 18 years old, she\u2019s been a target for a while. I actually think that Roland Garros quarterfinal loss to [Lois] Boisson where she was so emotional there, I think that took a lot out of her, a lot of scar tissue there, so many early rounds Lindsay.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davenport followed up on Austin\u2019s point by suggesting that Andreeva has been playing too much in her bid to qualify for the WTA Finals and advised coach Conchita Martinez<\/a> to tell her to end her season to prepare for 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, really after Wimbledon her season has not been what she wanted, a lot of pressure on her,\u201d added Davenport. \u201cBut, if you are in Mirra\u2019s camp you have to have more of a long-term view. Didn\u2019t seem like she needed to play all that much during this fall. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s 18 years old, she\u2019s most likely going to be a Grand Slam champion, still so young. I just wonder about the push so hard to make the Finals this year, she\u2019s still a teen and if you look at it, probably in your mind you\u2019re hoping she\u2019s playing at least another 10, 15 years and when you look at her on the court she\u2019s crying in so many matches, mentally looks absolutely exhausted. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know, I think at some point you\u2019ve got to look at the big picture, is this really worth it right now? Maybe let\u2019s just get her mentally right and ready for the next season.\u201d<\/p>\n\nMirra Andreeva\u2019s tournaments since Wimbledon<\/strong><\/td>\nResult<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nCanadian Open<\/td>\nThird Round (Did not win one match, received a bye and a walkover)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nUS Open<\/td>\nThird Round (Won two matches)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nChina Open<\/td>\nFourth Round (Won two matches)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nWuhan Open<\/td>\nSecond Round (Did not win one match, received a bye)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nNingbo Open<\/td>\nSecond Round (Did not win one match, received a bye)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Lindsay Davenport reveals the real reason why Mirra Andreeva is not playing in Tokyo<\/p>\n

Andreeva currently holds the eighth and final place to qualify for the WTA Finals, but after Elena Rybakina won the Ningbo Open<\/a> that position is at risk.<\/p>\n

Davenport wanted Andreeva not to play as much, and she is not competing in Tokyo this year despite only being 15 points ahead of Rybakina in the race.<\/p>\n

While that could have been as a result of wanting to look after herself, Davenport reported that it was actually because she could not receive a visa for the tournament in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean she is absolutely trending in the right direction, the question is can she recover?\u201d Davenport said about Rybakina. \u201cThere\u2019s still so much she\u2019s got to play for, she\u2019s got to get to the semifinals of the next tournament to be able to pass Mirra Andreeva and get that final spot. <\/p>\n

\u201cHer game has picked up, she has played so much better this fall, she looks healthy again, that\u2019s the most important thing with her, she\u2019s playing that aggressive tennis. Got a little bit of a break, Mirra Andreeva could not get a visa to go to Japan, therefore she controls her destiny if she wins these matches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rybakina knows what she needs to do to qualify for the WTA Finals<\/a>, while Andreeva just has to sit and wait to learn her fate.<\/p>\n

Regardless of what happens for singles qualification, Andreeva is already set to play at the WTA Finals in Riyadh as she has qualified for the doubles tournament alongside Diana Shnaider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Mirra Andreeva is a big topic of conversation at the moment, with her…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":321826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[68133,22879,62,1464,67,132,68,2212],"class_list":{"0":"post-321825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-lindsay-davenport","9":"tag-mirra-andreeva","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-wta"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115413615450187313","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}