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Victory in two sets this Sunday, July 20 in the Hamburg tournament final for the new nugget of French tennis.
Tennis – Loïs Boisson is definitely made for clay. After having rejoiced the French public during the Fifteen of Roland Garros in late May and early June, the young player who became in the space of a Grand Chelem tournament The new number 1 of French tennis was offered this Sunday, July 20, her first title on the WTA female circuit.
In the final of the Hamburg tournament, the 22-year-old Frenchwoman even offered himself a victory in two sets (7-5, 6-3) against Hungarian Anna Bondar, 77th in the world. The height of happiness for the French, she joined this Sunday the feminine top 50 with a new advance in the WTA ranking, thus going from the 361st world place before Roland-Garros in the 44th with this coronation in Germany.
This is also the first success of a Frenchwoman on the WTA circuit since Caroline Garcia’s victory at the Masters in November 2022. Sensation of the last Roland-Garros, where she had reached the semi-finals, Loïs Boisson was playing her first final on the main circuit after having failed in the last square in Paris against the future winner of Roland Garros 2025: the American Coco Gauff.
Double remontada
But before winning the first title of her career on the main circuit, the Frenchman will have drooled. Because in the first set, Loïs Boisson was first led 0-4, then 2-5 before making a fantastic raising in the end of the first set, after saving three break balls at 5-5. Although physically shaken, like several small gestural alerts at the end of the first set, Loïs Boisson did not tremble when offering the first round 7-5 in an hour of play.
A little more comfortable on its service in the second round, the Dijonnaise still loses three games in a row and then finds itself led 1-3 at a decisive moment in this final. However, Loïs Boisson was able to react in time to pick up the score, save the decisive breaks balls and win the 6-3 set on a direct fault of his Hungarian opponent. A great confirmation of his surprise explosion a few weeks earlier on the clay of the Porte d’Auteuil. However, it is all in sobriety that the Frenchman celebrated this victory on the court. A meteoric ascent, moreover, greeted by Anna Bondar, who said: ” To reach such a level in such a short time is impressive. Bravo Loïs ”.
And it is finally with a touch of humor, given its status of revelation, that Loïs Boisson dropped his first words: “This is the first time that I have a speech so please be indulgent. Thank you to everyone who has encouraged me for so many years. We worked well and I am happy to have you by my side ”. For this first career victory on German soil, it is therefore logically in the local language that she concluded this short passage to the microphone: ” I think that’s all and I will tell you: Danke! »»
