Tennis-Playing elder sister tougher than facing top-ranked players for Mirra Andreeva


Tennis - WTA 500 - Stuttgart Tennis Grand Prix - Porsche Arena, Stuttgart, Germany - April 16, 2025 Russia's Mirra Andreeva in action during her round of 32 match against Russia's Erika Andreeva REUTERS/Angelika Warmuth

(Reuters) -Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva has beaten the world's best players to move up to world number seven but on Wednesday she beat a player who had got the better of her for years - her elder sister Erika.

The Andreeva sisters were drawn against each other at the Stuttgart Open but any hopes of a witnessing an absorbing sibling rivalry were put to bed when Erika, 20, was forced to retire with a knee injury while trailing 6-2 1-0.

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