French sensation Lois Boisson delivered a stunning display to upset Mirra Andreeva in the quarter-finals of the 2025 French Open.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old wildcard prevailed 7-6(6), 6-3 against world No 6 Andreeva on Court Philippe-Chatrier to continue her fairytale Roland Garros<\/a> run.<\/p>\n Boisson twice battled back from a break down and saved a set point before taking a thrilling opening set on a tiebreak.<\/p>\n The Frenchwoman fell 0-3 down in the second set, but won the next six games to seal a remarkable victory over the 18-year-old Russian star.<\/p>\n In her on-court interview, Boisson said:\u00a0\u201cIt was unbelievable, it was amazing to feel supported like this. I have no words to describe that feeling.<\/p>\n \u201cWhatever the situation last year and difficult moments we went through, it\u2019s unbelievable to come from there, but it\u2019s also thanks to my team who supported me. It\u2019s thanks to all of us, really.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, I think I ran a bit too much because I was so tense. It was difficult to hit the ball from the racket. I fought hard. The first set was very intense and at the beginning of the second set, I was really tired. But in the end, I managed to recover and to finish as I did.<\/p>\n \u2018Lois Boisson is a top 20 player on any surface\u2019 \u2013 former world No 1 amid French Open run<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The 5 women to reach first Grand Slam semi-final on major debut: Boisson joins Evert, Seles<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWell, I\u2019m going to try and recover, see the physios, there\u2019s six physios in my box. So I have plenty of choice.\u201d<\/p>\n Boisson missed the 2024 French Open after suffering an anterior cruciate ligament injury a week before the tournament.<\/p>\n She is the first player in the Open Era to reach the semi-finals of the French Open women\u2019s singles event as a wildcard.<\/p>\n At the age of 22 years and nine days, Boisson has become the youngest French women\u2019s semi-finalist at a Grand Slam since former world No 1 Amelie Mauresmo at Wimbledon in 1999.<\/p>\n Boisson was ranked 361st at the start of the tournament \u2014 and she has soared an incredible 296 places to a projected new career-high of 65th with the 780 points earned for reaching the last four.<\/p>\n It is the biggest ranking jump from a Grand Slam run since Emma Raducanu won the 2021 US Open as a qualifier.\u00a0Raducanu rose 127 places from 150th to 23rd for her incredible triumph.<\/p>\n Boisson will face world No 2 Coco Gauff in the semi-finals on Thursday.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0How Coco Gauff set impressive French Open record and followed in Serena Williams\u2019 footsteps<\/a> The post Lois Boisson +296 in WTA Rankings with extraordinary Mirra Andreeva French Open upset<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" French sensation Lois Boisson delivered a stunning display to upset Mirra Andreeva in the quarter-finals of the 2025 French Open. The 22-year-old wildcard prevailed 7-6(6), 6-3 against world No 6 Andreeva on Court Philippe-Chatrier to continue her fairytale Roland Garros run. Boisson twice battled back from a break down and saved a set point before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}French Open News<\/h2>\n
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