Rome: Mirra Andreeva is pretty sure she’s still a Top 10 player 🤔

ROME, Italy—Most tennis players claim not to pay attention to the rankings, and the weekly shifts and swings therein.

Mirra Andreeva took this avoidance to a new level earlier this year at the BNP Paribas Open when the teenager appeared uncertain she was still ranked inside the Top 10—despite only earning the accolade less than two weeks prior.

“I think now, I’m not Top 10?” she asked bemused reporting duo Prakash Amritraj and Steve Weissman. “Or am I? I am? Wow, that’s great! See? I didn’t even know that.”

Obviously I know that I'm probably still in Top 10. I checked a week ago, so it was still like this! Mirra Andreeva

A self-described perfectionist, the world No. 7 confirmed Tuesday that she prefers not to get bogged down by too many numbers as she prepares for the Internazionali BNL d’Italia.

“I try not to pay attention,” insisted Andreeva, who is in the midst of a career-best season with back-to-back WTA 1000 titles at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships and the BNP Paribas Open.

“I feel like it's easier not to pay attention to what's my ranking, what are the positions, how everything changes or moves.

“Obviously I know that I'm probably still in Top 10. I checked a week ago, so it was still like this! Yeah, I'm just [trying] not to pay attention to what's going on, just do my thing, do it the best way I can.”

Andreeva finds herself less allergic to stats when it comes to those of coach Conchita Martinez, a former world No. 2 who won a record four consecutive titles at the Foro Italico between 1993 and 1996.

“I think it's a record,” Andreeva said with her inimitable uncertainty. “I don't think anyone has more titles in Rome in a row than her. It's pretty nice. I hope she's going to share some tips with me how to do the same.

“Of course, it's super special to play here. I'm just going to try to be close to her.”

Andreeva first paired up with Martinez, a former coach of two-time major champion Garbiñe Muguruza, last spring to immediate success. In between games of Uno, the youngster reached her first major semifinal at Roland Garros and returned to Paris two months later to win a silver medal in women’s doubles (w/ Diana Shnaider) at the Summer Olympic Games.

The team, which has grown to include a sports psychologist, has enjoyed even more success in 2025. Andreeva earned her aforementioned Top 10 ranking but she’s even higher in the PIF Race to the WTA Finals, sitting third behind Aryna Sabalenka and Madison Keys.

“I would say that I don't really feel the change in myself,” said the No. 7 seed, who will open against either Viktoriya Tomova or a qualifier. “I think that I'm still the same old Mirra either I won the tournament or no.

“I think, well, the players on tour, they're also treating me the same way. Nothing's changed. I think maybe they would treat me differently if I would win, like, five slams, but it's not the time yet! So far everything just stays the same.”

One thing that might change is a ranking all her own, the 18-year-old leaving room for clay courts to increase in her estimation despite her myriad 2025 successes on hard courts.

“We're going to see how these clay court tournaments are going to go,” she smiled, teasing another deep run at Roland Garros. “Maybe clay is going to end up on the first place. We're going to see.”