Mirra Andreeva won the women’s Roland Garros title, overcoming Poland’s Maja Chwalinska in the final with a score of 6-3, 6-2 in one hour and 22 minutes. The young Russian, who arrived in Paris as No. 8 in the WTA rankings, thus hits the first Slam triumph of her career on the very court where she won the Olympic silver medal in 2024. Thanks to this success she also climbs to the top of the Race and, as of Monday, will occupy the sixth position in the world rankings.
The match remained in balance only in the early stages. At 3-3 in the first set, Andreeva shifted gears, stringing together three consecutive games that enabled her to close the partial set at 6-3. In the second set, the Russian immediately took control of the challenge, quickly leading 5-0. Chwalinska managed to stop the bleeding of games by winning two consecutive ones, but Andreeva maintained the lead and filed the match with a clear 6-2.
Chwalinska’s was nevertheless a remarkable ride in the Paris tournament. The 24-year-old from Dabrowa Gornicza, who started from the qualifiers and was ranked number 114 in the WTA rankings before the tournament began, had also eliminated Anna Kalinskaya on her way to the final, who was stopped in the quarterfinals with a score of 7-6(3), 6-3. For the Pole, who boasts three trophies in her trophy cabinet at the WTA 125 level but had never won a title on the major circuit, the best result in a Slam before this Roland Garros was reaching the second round at Wimbledon 2022.
For Andreeva, born in Krasnoyarsk on April 29, 2007, this is the crowning achievement of a steady growth path. The Russian tennis player had already shown her potential on Parisian clay by reaching the semifinals at Roland Garros 2024, before winning the Olympic silver medal also in Paris, defeated in the doubles final together with Diana Shnaider by the Italian pair Paolini-Errani. Over the course of her career, she has already put four WTA titles on her trophy cabinet, including the prestigious WTA 1000 in Dubai and Indian Wells in 2025.
