{"id":530529,"date":"2026-03-10T07:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/530529\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T07:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:14:08","slug":"mirra-andreeva-throws-racket-spars-with-crowd-after-indian-wells-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/530529\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirra Andreeva throws racket, spars with crowd after Indian Wells loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIAN WELLS, Calif. &#8212; Defending Indian Wells champion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=9820\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mirra Andreeva<\/a> smashed her racket several times during a 4-6, 6-7(5), 6-3 loss to unseeded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2248\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Katerina Siniakova<\/a> in the tournament&#8217;s third round Monday night, then left the court exchanging words with the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Andreeva threw her racket after losing the second-set tiebreaker before smashing it, resulting in a code violation.<\/p>\n<p>She threw her racket again following match point and then, after shaking hands at the net with Siniakova, left the court gesturing and shouting at the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not really proud of how I managed it. I&#8217;m not really proud of how I handled it in the end,&#8221; Andreeva said in a news conference, according to The Athletic. &#8220;Those are the things that I really need to work on soon. I don&#8217;t know. Not in the future but whenever I get the chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIAN WELLS, Calif. &#8212; Defending Indian Wells champion Mirra Andreeva smashed her racket several times during a 4-6,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-530529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}