Mirra Andreeva quipped she "felt like a turtle" despite claiming a relatively routine straight-sets win over Elina Svitolina at the WTA Finals.

Andreeva marked her debut at the season-ending tournament with a 6-4 6-0 victory at Indian Wells.

The reigning French Open champion took a few games to get into her groove, but a break to go 3-2 up was soon doubled down on by a hold of serve, and Andreeva hardly looked back from there.

However, the world number three said she had to overcome plenty of pre-match nerves and tightness.

"I was so tight, I felt I was moving like a turtle," the teenager said afterwards.

"I felt like I couldn't really hit the ball, so I'm just very happy to get through the match and control my emotions."

Andreeva will take on Aryna Sabalenka in her next match, while Svitolina will go up against Karolina Muchova.

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Andreeva into the history books

Andreeva, 19, is the first player born since 2005 to claim a WTA Finals victory.

She became the seventh teenager to win a WTA Finals match since the current round-robin format was reintroduced in 2003.

Her second-set bagel saw Andreeva become the youngest player since Caroline Wozniacki in 2009 (against Vera Zvonareva) to win a set by a 6-0 scoreline at the WTA Finals.

In fact, Andreeva has now won 14 sets 6-0 this season, which is six more than any other player on the WTA Tour (Jessica Pegula and Sorana Cirstea both have eight).

And though she has plenty of talent, Andreeva did not have experience on her side compared to Svitolina.

Indeed, this was the biggest age gap (12 years and 229 days) between two players facing off at the WTA Finals since Venus Williams played Caroline Garcia in the 2017 semi-finals (13 years and 121 days).