Postcards from Paris

MIRRA ANDREEVA is one to watch. The 16-year-old Russian won her first main-draw Grand Slam match in 56 minutes yesterday and pointed to a good luck text from Andy Murray as the inspiration. The pair had another exchange last month where she called him ‘beautiful’ and Murray replied: ‘Imagine how good she will be when she gets her eyes fixed.’

THE media restaurants at Roland Garros are very meat-heavy, so it was a relief to see a group of carrots walking about. Six Italians dressed as the orange vegetable to support world No 9 Jannik Sinner. He said: ‘They call me Carrot because I have red hair. I used to eat carrots on court in Vienna.’