Mirra Andreeva gets honest about her 2025 goals

17-year-old Mirra Andreeva's 6-3, 6-0 win over Linda Noskova in the last 16 of the Brisbane Open has the tennis world reaching for comparisons with similar luminaries Maria Sharapova and Martina Hingis. They too burst onto the scene as teenagers and shouldered huge expectations. Andreeva, however, appears to have her feet solidly grounded, despite a stellar first 18 months on tour.

Andreeva is no stranger to success - reaching a junior Grand Slam final in Australia as a 15-year-old, before reeling off 16 straight matches to make her Top 100 debut just six months later. Her Roland Garros semi and fourth-round exit at Wimbledon in 2024 (the youngest player to reach that stage since Coco Gauff in 2019) confirmed her quality and future potential.

Despite the understandable interest in her future, Andreeva is clear about her immediate goals - to break into the world's top ten and stay there.

"My number one goal for 2025 is to crack the top 10," said Andreeva via the Tennis Letter after dispatching Noskova. "So I'm just gonna do my best for this starting in Brisbane, from the first tournament of the season. I'm just gonna do my best and see if we can achieve this goal."

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Mirra Andreeva is setting realistic goals for her 2025 season

Mirra Andreeva at the 2024 Wuhan Open - Day 4 - Source: Getty

Currently ranked 16th in the WTA rankings, Mirra Andreeva's growing army of fans would be forgiven for dreaming of Grand Slam success in 2025. After all, she's already reached a semifinal at Roland Garros and has a support team around her led by Conchita Martinez, who coached Garbiñe Muguruza to the Wimbledon title in 2017.

Andreeva has all the ingredients in place to replicate that success, having gained revenge for her defeat to Noskova in Brisbane last year:

"I'm really happy to be back in the quarterfinals here. Last year she almost killed me in the quarter-final. I was thinking it's time to take my revenge," Mirra Andreeva said.

Having begun 2025 with such a strong showing in Brisbane, all eyes will be on Andreeva at the forthcoming Australian Open. Last year she exited in the fourth round, but her convincing win over Noskova suggests she may be able to go even deeper in 2025.

It may be that limiting her expectations to a top-ten ranking in 2025 undersells Andreeva's remarkable rise to stardom, but she, at least, is philosophical about her immediate future; to play carefree tennis for as long as possible and accept where that takes her. As she said in a June 2024 interview with Tennis.com, “I still feel fearless, at least for a little bit longer!”