Mirra Andreeva kept her Roland Garros run rolling on Friday, beating Marie Bouzkova 6-4, 6-2 to reach the fourth round for the third straight year. The 18-year-old Russian needed 1 hour, 35 minutes to finish the job and move into the French Open's second week.
The win carried more than simple progression. Andreeva's latest victory was her tour-leading 32nd of the season and her 18th on clay, and it made her the youngest woman to reach the Roland Garros Round of 16 in three consecutive seasons since Martina Hingis did it from 1997 to 1999. She also improved to 5-0 against Bouzkova on the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz, with all five victories coming in straight sets.
That is the form line that has made Andreeva hard to avoid in Paris. She reached the semifinals here in 2024, and this year's opening week has already been full of shocks, with 16 men's seeds and 14 women's seeds falling before the third round. Andreeva has not been caught in that drift. She has won her matches cleanly and kept herself in the part of the draw where the tournament starts to sharpen.
Her next match comes against Jil Teichmann, whose own path has been anything but straightforward. Teichmann beat Karolina Muchova 6-1, 7-5 in 1 hour, 52 minutes after trailing 1-5 in the second set, a result that gave the Swiss player her second career trip to the Roland Garros fourth round and her ninth top-10 victory. Muchova had arrived with an 11-0 record against opponents ranked outside the top 50, only to be beaten by the No. 170 player in the world.
Teichmann's run adds another wrinkle to Andreeva's next assignment. She returned to the tour in April after taking time away from competition since September last year and is playing only her seventh tournament since that comeback, with a semifinal run in Rabat last week helping to show she is back in the mix. Andreeva has already done the harder part by staying steady through the first week. The next step is a meeting with a player who has already spent these two weeks proving that rankings can wobble when a draw starts to tighten.
