Lois Boisson Makes Strong ‘Miracle’ Statement After Booking Spot in French Open Semifinal

Lois Boisson will continue her fairytale run at the French Open and will next be locking horns with World No.2 Coco Gauff in the semifinals.

Lois Boisson Makes Strong ‘Miracle’ Statement After Booking Spot in French Open Semifinal

Lois Boisson (Image via X/Sports China)

Lois Boisson making it to the semifinal of the 2025 French Open is not a “miracle” but the result of “hard work”. The 22-year-old knocked out two-time WTA 1000 event winner Mirra Andreeva to become the first woman to progress to the French Open semifinals as a wildcard entrant.

Next, she will face a Grand Slam champion. It’s Coco Gauff, who overcame reigning Australian Open champion Madison Keys to advance to her second straight French Open semifinal and schedule her career’s first clash with Boisson.

Boisson, after last year’s WTA 125K event in Saint-Malo, was forced to skip the rest of the season because of a knee injury. Before arriving in Paris, she played in the Saint-Malo tournament and the Open de Rouen, where she failed to make deep runs.

Perhaps no one had thought that Boisson would go on to knock out three seeded players, including World No.3 Jessica Pegula and No.6 Andreeva in her maiden main draw appearance of a Grand Slam event. But she doesn’t believe her French Open run is a miracle.

No, I don’t think it’s a miracle. For sure I have a bit of luck also. But I think it’s the hard work I’ve put since I started playing tennis. And also last year with my rehab [from injury]…it’s just a result of hard work and nothing else.

Lois Boisson said at the press conference

Apart from the aforementioned records, Boisson is also the youngest French semifinalist at a Major since current French Open director Amelie Mauresmo (1999 Wimbledon). She is just the fourth player in the Open Era to advance to her first tour-level semifinal in the second Major of the season.

Boisson had reached a career-high ranking of 152 last year but was dropped out of the top 300 because of the injury. She entered Roland Garros as a No.361 player, but now she has climbed to nearly 300 places to occupy a spot in the top 70 in the live rankings.

Jannik Sinner reveals he approached Lois Boisson to practice before their quarterfinals

Before Lois Boisson’s match against Mirra Andreeva, clips of her practice session with Jannik Sinner did rounds on social media. After Boisson’s historic performance, Sinner followed her on Chatrier to play his quarterfinal match.

Jannik Sinner and Lois Boisson
Jannik Sinner and Lois Boisson (via The Tennis Letter)

The three-time Grand Slam champion, after his dominating straight-set win over Alexander Bublik, talked about the Frenchwoman in his post-match press conference. He revealed that they had known each other for a long time and that it was he who approached her for the warm-up session.

Today it was raining, so I called here, the desk, you know, if there was some free spot, because I don’t want to risk to go on court without warming up. So we arrived here quite early. Yeah, she said straight away yes, and we hit some balls. It was a very consistent warm-up for a different game style for a woman because the ball is quite high and quite spinny. Physically very strong.

Sinner now has a tough challenge in the semifinals. He will be up against Novak Djokovic, who knocked out three-time Grand Slam finalist Alexander Zverev to inch closer to his historic 25th Major.

Sinner and Djokovic are tied at 4-4 in their head-to-head matchups. The Italian ace, however, had clinched victories in their previous three meetings. Sinner is aiming to reach the final of the clay-court Major for the first time in his year, having failed to do so last year due to his defeat in a thrilling semifinal clash with eventual winner Carlos Alcaraz.

Djokovic, the winner of three French Open titles, is bidding to win his second trophy of the season after reaching the 100-title tally at the ATP 250 Geneva Open. The winner of the semifinal will face the winner of the Alcaraz versus Lorenzo Musetti clash.

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