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00:02Russian teenager Mira Andreeva is the 2026 French Open champion!
00:07The 19-year-old defeated Polish qualifier Maja Chowalinska 6-3, 6-2 in the Roland Garros final on Saturday!
00:13When she executed a backhand cross-court winner on her first match point, she dropped to her knees on the
00:18clay to celebrate!
00:19Andreeva became the youngest player to win the women's singles title at Roland Garros since Monica Seles,
00:23who was 18 when she won her third straight French Open in 1992!
00:27The world number 8 dropped just one set throughout the entire championship!
00:31Her semi-final victory over Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk ended Kostyuk's 17-match clay-court winning streak after that match!
00:37Kostyuk refused to shake Andreeva's hand as has been the custom for Ukrainian players facing Russians since the war started
00:42in 2022!
00:43Andreeva has had to compete under neutral status without her country's flag due to the war!
00:47Before Paris, she had already won titles in Adelaide and Linz this season!
00:50She also became the youngest player to win a WTA 1000 event when she triumphed in Dubai in 2025!
00:55With this victory, Andreeva rises to world number 6 in the latest WTA rankings!
00:59After the win, she said, and I quote,
01:00Now I'm already thinking of how I'm going to prepare for the grass season!
01:03She added,
01:04I feel like this thing is a little bit addicting!
01:05I really want to do my best to experience all of this for the second time!
01:08Andreeva becomes the first Russian woman to win a Grand Slam singles title since Maria Schiart provved on the French
01:12Open in 2014!
01:13That's all for now!
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