Mirra Andreeva becomes youngest since Coco Gauff to win a match at all four Grand Slams

The 16-year-old Russian achieved this feat with a straight sets win over Bernarda Pera.

Mirra Andreeva just earned herself the mantle of the youngest player to win a main draw match at each Grand Slam in the women’s events. This makes Andreeva the youngest player since Coco Gauff and the youngest Russian since Anna Kournikova to do so. The teen achieved this milestone by winning her first-round match against American Bernarda Pera on her Australian Open debut.

Andreeva, the youngest player in the top 100, came through in her match against Pera 7-5, 6-2 in the first round. The two players traded breaks of serve early in the set, with Pera taking the lead with a break of serve in the sixth game of the first set to get ahead, 4-2. Undaunted, Andreeva rebounded strongly to even the score 5-5 and then took the set 7-5.

The second set was all about Andreeva as she broke Pera’s serve in the first and fourth games and served out the set with the score of 5-2 to post her first win of the new season. While Pera may have sent down more winners, 19 to Andreeva’s 10, she also made more unforced errors, 27 to the Russian’s 12. Andreeva also converted 5/9 breakpoints that came her way. 

She joins fellow teens Alina Korneeva and Brenda Fruhvirtova in the second round. Andreeva prevailed in just over an hour against the American and will now face Tunisian Ons Jabeur with a spot in the third round on the line.

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World No. 6 Ons Jabeur had a winning start to the 2024 season with a victory over Ukrainian qualifier Yuliia Starodubtseva 6-3, 6-1 in the first round of the Australian Open. The Tunisian opted out of any official tournaments before arriving in Melbourne and was a bit rusty to begin with but quickly shook it off. Jabeur recouped to win four games in a row after losing the first game to close out the first set 6-3.

All signs of nerves disappeared in the second set, where Jabeur put on a confident display and broke Starodubtseva’s serve three more times to win the second set, 6-1 and with it, the match in 67 minutes. It was not the Ukrainian’s day as she made 35 unforced errors and hit only five winners. 

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