Roland Garros 2026: Mirra Andreeva & Alexander Zverev

Roland Garros is behind us, and we have brand-new winners in both the men’s and women’s categories. Mirra Andreeva is a 19-year-old prodigy who reached the semi-finals two years ago, but this year she went all the way and took the title. Alexander Zverev is a 29-year-old veteran who had never won a Grand Slam in his entire career, so winning Roland Garros was a monumental achievement for him, the kind of result he had been chasing for nearly a decade.

Let’s do a chart analysis of both. Ladies first.

Sparkling Yin Water

There is something quite innocent and sparkling about Mirra. I watched several of her interviews, and she comes across as one of the sweetest people on the tour, really well-spoken, gentle, and genuinely enjoying the game and the whole circus around professional tennis. She doesn’t carry the heaviness that many players her age start to develop once the expectations land on them.

She is a Yin Water Day Master at the top of the chart, with a beautiful flow running through it. Yin Water produces Yang Wood, and Yang Wood produces Yin Fire. This is a classic Day Master producing Output producing Wealth, which is exactly the kind of structure you want to see in an athlete, because it means the energy moves cleanly from the self outward into performance and then into reward. Nothing is stuck. Everything is flowing.

She has the Pig branch, which carries Yang Water, giving her physical strength and the competitive instinct she needs at the top level. The Dragon month branch also carries some Water, providing additional support to this Yin Water Day Master. So while Yin Water is normally one of the softer elements, in her chart, it has enough rootedness to compete with anyone, even when the pressure mounts.

Her soft nature primarily stems from the Yin Water Day Master, known for its sensitivity, emotional intelligence, and ability to read situations and people. Yang Wood acts as Performer Talent here, while Yin Fire is showing up as Flamboyant Supertalent, which is why she is so naturally good at public appearances and media interactions. She is entertaining and well-spoken because of these two exceptional profiles sitting at the top of her chart, working together.

Natural visibility

Yin Fire also represents visibility in BaZi, and this is one of the main reasons the media is so attracted to her. Players with strong Yin Fire don’t just play well; they shine on screen, they look good in photos, and they hold attention. The visibility is further enhanced by her current Fire Horse Luck Pillar, and we are also in a Fire Horse year, which means the Fire element is being amplified from multiple directions simultaneously. For Mirra, that translates into both rising fame and strong money luck, exactly at the moment when she has the game to capitalize on it.

It’s worth pausing on how rare this kind of timing is. Most athletes peak technically before the chart aligns to give them visibility and reward, or the chart gives them visibility before the game begins. Mirra has both arrived at the same time, which is why this Roland Garros win feels less like a breakthrough and more like the beginning of something larger.

The burden and the breakthrough

Interestingly, Zverev has a similar dynamic at the top of his chart, with Yang Water Day Master producing Yang Wood, and then Yang Wood producing Yin Fire. The same Day Master to Output to Wealth flow that Mirra has, just with the Yang version of Water sitting at the top instead of Yin. His Yang Water gains strength from the Water hidden in the Dragon and Ox branches, but it’s not as straightforward as Mirra’s situation, because that Water is buried inside Earth, and Earth controls Water. So the strength is there, but it’s under pressure.

Zverev is a much more serious person than Mirra, mostly due to the serious nature of Yang Water, which, by character, likes to dream big and think long-term. Yang Water charts tend toward depth, ambition, and a certain melancholy when things don’t go their way. At the same time, there is heaviness in his chart because there is so much Earth, which in his case represents fame (Power Component), and it weighs everything down. He became quite popular early in his career, but after the initial honeymoon, his relationship with the media turned sour, especially because he didn’t deliver the results everyone expected. That kind of sustained pressure from the outside world is exactly what too much Power Component does to a chart. It promises recognition but exacts a heavy toll.

You can see in today’s Zverev that it has made him a much more serious person, quite the opposite of Mirra’s light-heartedness. He no longer carries the easy energy he had when he first came on tour. The chart has been doing its slow work on him, and the man we see now is the result of years of carrying that Earth burden.

The story of two Dragons

The two Dragons sitting next to each other in his chart create a particularly heavy configuration. Double Dragons often make a person very rigid and super-focused, which has served Zverev in the sense that he has been singularly focused on finally winning a Grand Slam, but it comes with some heavy character traits as well. Rigidity is the cost of that kind of focus. The person can push through, but they often can’t pivot, can’t adapt, can’t enjoy the process the way someone with a lighter chart might.

There is an interesting image hidden in these two Dragons. They carry two Yin Water elements, which in his chart represent his opponents, his competition, the people who are trying to take what he wants. Throughout his career, he has had two great opponents who have dominated him, Sinner and Alcaraz, and the symbolism here is striking. These two Dragons are heavy Earth, and they sit dominating over his Yang Water Day Master, which means the image of his chart is essentially this: he wants to expand, to grow, to assert himself, but the Earth filled with Water (his two main opponents) is pushing back and containing him. He pushes, they push harder.

The deeper problem is that his Yang Water is under immense pressure from multiple sides simultaneously. The Earth is pressing down on it, the Fire is evaporating it, and the Wood is draining it, and there is no clean release valve in the chart to relieve any of that pressure. This is the structural reason he has struggled to convert his obvious talent into the major titles his game deserves. The chart is producing brilliant tennis, but storing it under pressure rather than letting it flow.

He won Roland Garros because Sinner and Alcaraz simply weren’t there in the final stages, for different reasons. So Zverev took the opportunity that arose, and he should be celebrated for that, because taking the opportunity when it arises is itself a skill. But the structural problem in his chart will remain. The two Dragons are still there. The opponents are still there. And he may continue living in their shadow at the bigger tournaments, where the pressure of his chart and the pressure of the competition combine in ways that don’t favor him.

Mirra’s chart, by contrast, looks like it has an open road ahead. The Fire is amplifying her visibility; her game is developing rapidly, and I can’t see any equivalent structural block in her chart that would cause her sustained trouble. She has the kind of game that could carry her to multiple Grand Slams over the next decade if she continues to develop it. Zverev fought hard for this one, and it was a genuine triumph for him. Mirra, on the other hand, looks like she is just getting started.