The former Swiss world number one Martina Hingis defended Russian tennis player Mirra Andreyev who received a ticket for unsportsmanlike conduct during a match at Wimbledon.
Andreeva lost Monday to American Madison Keys in the fourth round of Wimbledon. During the match, the Russian received two warnings for throwing her racket. Subsequently, the 16-year-old tennis player was fined eight thousand dollars for these actions.
“I did that too. When you play a lot of matches, you want to win, you want to play well. And it can happen. When you’re young, you have emotions – sometimes they’re good, sometimes they’re bad. So far, nothing dangerous has happened.
Of course, you have to control your emotions, but she’s 16. She is still a child, it can happen,” Hingis Tennis Majors quote.
It is expected that, according to the results of Wimbledon, Andreeva will rise to 64th place in the world rankings.
Source : MatchTV
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