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Mirra Andreeva was asked if she suffers from the fact that Russian players are no longer competing under their flag, ‘I think every person doesn’t want to have a war in the world…. What I can say is that when I play tennis, the only thing I think about is how to play & how to win’ “You were asked before about Sharapova. You were 5 and 7 years old when she won it. At that time there was no problem to call her Russian. Now, political, it’s not any more correct. We don’t know what to do, how to say it, whether to write, whether to put the flag or not. Is it something you suffer for it? That you’d like somehow to be changed? Any suggestion about it? What should we do? What could happen if the war is not over? We all wish that the war is over.” Mirra: “Of course I think every person doesn’t want to have a war in the world. What I can say is that when I play tennis, the only thing I think about is how to play and how to win. How to compete well. How to just win matches. And I don’t really think about that when I play because I have so many things in my mind that I try to focus on. I never think about those things when I play.” (via Roland Garros Press)