This Wednesday, June 4, 2025, Loïs Boisson surprised all tennis fans, and the French, by qualifying for the Roland Garros court against Mira Andreeva, a Russian. This Thursday, she will face American Coco Gauff in the semifinals. But who is Loïs Boisson, the hope of French tennis?
On June 4, 2025, Loïs Boisson wrote a new page of history for French tennis. By defeating Russian Mirra Andreeva, world number 6, in the quarterfinals of Roland-Garros, the young Frenchwoman earned her ticket to the semifinals of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time in her career. And this, at the age of 22, while she was still ranked above 300th in the world just a few weeks earlier. A victory all the more moving given that, just a year ago, she could have called it a day.
In the spring of 2024, Loïs Boisson suffered a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee, just two weeks before Roland-Garros. The injury was serious, and her doubts were immense. Her surgeon, Dr. Bertrand Sonnery-Cottet, remembers a “directive” player. “She asked a lot of questions about the details of the surgery, the recovery… She also asked me for the scientific publications I had written on the subject. She pushes very hard. She wasn’t at all in the position of the poor unfortunate; she decided on everything that needed to be done to recover,” he confided to L’Équipe.
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