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Mirra Andreeva, a 19-year-old Russian professional tennis player, won her first Grand Slam title on Saturday, defeating Maja Chwalinska to win the French Open.
Andreeva won in two sets, 6-3, 6-2, against the 114th-ranked Pole. Andreeva became the youngest player to win the women’s singles title since Monica Seles, who was 18 when she won her third consecutive French Open in 1992.
She also became the first Russian woman to win a Grand Slam since Maria Sharapova won the 2014 French Open and became the first teenager to win a Grand Slam title since Coco Gauff did so at the 2023 US Open, when she was 19.
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Russia’s Mirra Andreeva holds the trophy after winning the final tennis match against Poland’s Maja Chwalinska at the French Open in Paris on June 6, 2026. (Thibault Camus/AP)
Andreeva also became the first tennis player or tennis player born in 2005 to reach and win a Grand Slam title.
When Andreeva executed a backhand crosscourt winner on her first match point, the Russian knelt on the clay in celebration.
“You’re so young and talented. It’s so annoying,” Chwalinska told Andreeva during the awards ceremony.
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Russia’s Mirra Andreeva celebrates after winning the final women’s tennis match against Poland’s Maja Chwalinska at the French Open in Paris on June 6, 2026. (Christophe Ena/AP Photo)
Andreeva thanked herself for fighting “so many demons” during her title run at the awards ceremony.
“For believing in myself, always giving 100%, even when it’s difficult, trying every day to be better as a person and as a player, believing that I can do it, fighting so many demons that I have inside,” Andreeva said.
“Only I know how hard it was for me,” Andreeva added. “How nervous I was during these two weeks.”
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Russia’s Mirra Andreeva holds the trophy after winning the final tennis match against Poland’s Maja Chwalinska at the French Open in Paris on June 6, 2026. (Thibault Camus/AP)
The match was tied 3-3 in the first set, but Andreeva then won 20 of the next 21 points to win the set and take control of the match.
Chwalinska was attempting to become the first qualifier to capture the Roland Garros title.
