before gesturing and appearing to swear at the crowd<\/a> several times as she left the court.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m not really proud of how I managed it,\u201d said Andreeva, but added the profanities picked up by courtside microphones weren\u2019t directed at the fans.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was to myself, to everyone, basically,\u201d said Andreeva. \u201cI mean, after the loss, I just get very angry, so I say those things sometimes to myself. I mean, first to myself, of course, but then, yeah, it was just anger coming out, just a lot of emotions. Not really towards anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Andreeva has admitted she has struggled to contain her emotions throughout her young career, and after Monday\u2019s loss she said it was an area she needs to address.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose are the things that [I] really need to work on soon,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t know. Not in the future but whenever I get the chance. Yeah, I hope that I can work on it and I get better in that, as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Siniakova, a former doubles number one, admitted the net cord shot was an awkward way to seal the win in a match that featured seven service breaks for each player and 43 break chances between them.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course I\u2019m happy [the ball] went on the other side,\u201d she said. \u201cI was, like, should I cheer? It\u2019s a really tricky finish. But definitely I will not say I\u2019m not happy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Andreeva\u2019s gestures after the match were not her first outburst of the day. She threw her racket after losing the second set tiebreaker before smashing it, resulting in a code violation. She regrouped to break Siniakova for a 3-2 lead in the third, but Siniakova won the next four games, saving two break points in the final game before gaining the win on her first match point.<\/p>\n
Siniakova will face Elina Svitolina for a place in the quarter-finals after the ninth-seeded Ukrainian beat American Ashlyn Krueger 6-4, 6-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mirra Andreeva\u2019s Indian Wells title defense met a bad-tempered end on Monday as Katerina Siniakova stunned the Russian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-531610","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\/531610","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=531610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}