After being tied at 3:3 in the first set, she won eight games in a row, turning the match into a one-sided affair. The 19-year-old Russian tennis player, Mirra Andreeva, dominated the final of the Roland Garros tournament, defeating the tournament sensation, Maja Chwalińska, 6:3, 6:2, and claimed her first Grand Slam title. Her Polish opponent, ranked 114th in the world, failed to convert her qualifying run into a trophy. In the junior doubles, Jana Kovačková and Kateřina Zajíčková won on the Parisian clay.
Andreeva, seeded eighth, won her first Grand Slam final, becoming the first tennis player born in 2007 to reach such a stage. She also became the youngest tournament winner since 1992, when an 18-year-old Monika Seleš won in Paris. "I've always dreamed of winning this tournament. I can't believe I'm holding this trophy now," Andreeva said during the award ceremony on the court.
Addressing Chwalińska, who reached the Roland Garros final as the first left-handed player since Markéta Vondroušová in 2019, she added: "You are a very unpredictable opponent, I wouldn't want to play you again... But no, I hope we can play many more finals together." The balanced start to the match, in which both players struggled to hold serve in the windy conditions during the first four games, was broken by Andreeva at the turning point of the sets.
From 3:3, she earned four breaks, won eight games in a row, and raced to a 5:0 lead in the second set.
Chwalińska then averted the threat of a "bagel" on her serve in the seventh game, preventing her opponent from serving for the match. However, Andreeva immediately capitalized with a clean game on her return, converting her first match point. The match lasted 1 hour and 23 minutes. In the world rankings, Marie Bouzková, who defeated in the third round, will move up two places to sixth, just one position behind her career-high. The 24-year-old Pole was only the second player in the "Open Era" to reach a Grand Slam final after qualifying. However, she did not follow in the footsteps of Emma Raducanu, who won the US Open in 2021. The Polish left-hander reached the Roland Garros final in only her third appearance in a Grand Slam main draw. She won nine matches on the Parisian clay, but failed to add a tenth victory. The winner received a financial prize of 2.8 million euros (approximately 68 million Czech crowns), while the runner-up received half that amount.
Czech Joy in the Junior Doubles Final
Kovačková and Zajíčková defeated the eighth-seeded American pair, Welles Newman and Jordyn Hazelitt, 6:1 and 6:4. Kovačková, who will celebrate her sixteenth birthday next week, won her third Grand Slam title, while the slightly older Zajíčková won her first. Kovačková had played for the title on the Parisian clay last year, but had not been successful with her older sister, Alena. The talented sisters then made up for it at the US Open and the Australian Open this year.
In the junior singles, Alisa Oktyabrinskaya, a Russian-born player who has lived in the Czech Republic since childhood, won, defeating the second-seeded Sun Sin-chan of China 6:2, 6:1 in the final. The 17-year-old tennis player from Prague's Sparta club will officially become a Czech citizen in the coming days, according to information from the club. The final match was a showdown between the highest-seeded pairs, who had not lost a set on the Parisian clay so far. After an hour and fifteen minutes, the top seeds, Granollers and Zeballos, who are both 40 years old, celebrated their victory.
Together, they won their 16th title and third Grand Slam, following up last year's Paris with the US Open. Heliövaara and Patten also aimed for a third major trophy, but after their triumphs at Wimbledon 2024 and last year's Australian Open, they failed to win for the first time in a Grand Slam final.
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