Anastasia Potapova is showing herself to be a competitor at the 2023 Miami Open. The professional athlete is through to the 4th round of the competition with a remarkable win over No. 6 seed Coco Gauff.
Potapova and Gauff taken part in a high-quality fight at the Hard Rock Stadium, with both gamers taking turns in dropping their leads. After all the weaves, the Russian tennis gamer dominated versus the American home preferred in 3 sets 6-7 (8), 7-5, 6-2.
After the match, Potapova opened about being a ‘dog mama’ and said that her toy poodle “Baby” has actually had a favorable impact on her profession. She called her family pet her “lucky charm.”
“I am a dog mom, yeah. I have a toy poodle. It’s a girl and she’s like my lucky charm. Cause as soon as I got her, I started playing better, getting higher in the rankings,” she said in coversation with Tennis Channel’s Prakash Amritraj.
The 21-year-old likewise revealed that Baby accompanied her on trip for the very first time at the 2022 Istanbul Cup, when she won her first WTA title.
“And the first time I took her on tour, I won my first title. Yeah, it’s unbelievable,” she said.
Anastasia Potapova, nevertheless, is objecting to the Miami Open sans her family pet toy poodle. Nonetheless, the Russian stated that Baby will be accompanying her throughout the approaching clay season.
“Unfortunately I couldn’t bring her here cause I was coming from Dubai and there is the rules in the country – you cannot bring your dogs to Dubai. But I promise, [during] the clay swing, she’s gonna be with me everywhere, cause I really miss her. She’s a very fun dog,” she chuckled.
Potapova, who raised her 2nd WTA prize at the Linz Open this year, will seek to make her best shot to include another prize by thriving in Miami. She began her campaign with a win over Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk and now, for an area in the quarterfinals of the WTA 1000 event, she is set for a clash versus China’s Qinwen Zheng.
“There was not any political intent in this t-shirt” – Anastasia Potapova speaks out following Indian Wells debate
While Anastasia Potapova is attempting her finest to concentrate on her tennis, the gamer just recently landed herself in debate at the 2023 Indian Wells.
Potapova rubbed the tennis world the incorrect method by putting on the jersey of Russian soccer group Spartak Moscow in the middle of the continuous Russia-Ukraine war. The World No. 26 was later on provided an official warning by the WTA, however she clarified that her actions were not politically affected.
“There was not any political intent in this t-shirt. I’m simply a very fan of Spartak because I was ten years old. My daddy constructed part of the arena for this group so it’s in our family. I’m buddies with them. I was really shocked since there was no bad intent in this,” the Russian said.