‘Mini Sharapova’ Korneeva triumphs in Melbourne

Australian Open junior girls’s singles champion mini Sharapova, Siberian Korneeva. She beat 15-year-old Mirra Andreeva 67(6) 64-75 within the last to equalize her older sister Erika’s outcome. Finalist in singles at Roland Garros junior 2021.

In Down Underneath’s three weeks along with her mom, her first week in Australia the place she has by no means been earlier than this month, Korneeva has targeted solely on tennis, however is trying to take some free time to go to the Melbourne Zoo. She has priceless function fashions like Serena Williams and Rafa Nadal, whom she met final yr.

In 2022, Charleroi-Marcinelle rapidly moved up the Underneath-18 rating with two victories at Grade 1 tournaments in Belgium and Bamberg, Germany. He completed first within the Australian Open junior. #15 within the junior standings and #553 within the WTA rankings, he received his first skilled match, the W15, in Casablanca final September.