Mirra Andreeva tops Maja Chwalinska to win French Open, first Grand Slam

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PARIS — Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva was already a tennis phenom at age 15.

At 19, she’s the French Open champion.

The eighth-ranked Andreeva ended the run of 114th-ranked Polish qualifier Maja Chwalinska with a 6-3, 6-2 victory in the Roland Garros final on Saturday.


Mirra Andreeva celebrates a match point victory at the French Open.
Mirra Andreeva celebrates match point against Maja Chwalinska of Poland in their Women’s Singles final on Day Fourteen of the 2026 French Open at Roland Garros on June 06, 2026. Getty Images

Andreeva became the youngest player to win the women’s singles title since Monica Seles, who was 18 when she landed her third straight French Open in 1992.

Chwalinska was attempting to become the first qualifier to capture the Roland Garros title.

Alexander Zverev plays Flavio Cobolli in the men’s final on Sunday to conclude the wildest Grand Slam in recent memory

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