Completely out of the radar for several years, Leolia Jeanjean was THE revelation of Challenge Pro FFT, early December. Finalist at Poitiers, Montpellier has let the holiday season pass to try again its luck on the circuit. She managed to get into Manacor’s $ 15,000 qualifying table, which is already a chance given her 1190th world rank. This Sunday, she won her meeting against her compatriot Nina Radovanovic, 17 years old, and this may be the start of another trajectory. In the second round of qualifying, she will find Margaux Rouvroy, 915th worldwide.
Le Mag Tennis Actu – Léolia Jeanjean: “I’m back”
Leolia Jeanjean already has its own story. A little dented … Flash back: in 2008, she reached the quarterfinals of Petits As and fell against Daria Gavrilova, future 20th world. At that time, the Frenchie is seen as a nugget of French tennis, capable of settling very quickly in the WTA top 100. But now … an injury comes to stop Léolia during two years. A stop that cost her dearly and that led her to fly to the United States for his studies for five years. From now on, Leolia Jeanjean is back in France and determined to fully launch her professional career at 25 years old. Its history, its difficulties, its ambitions and its dreams …Léolia mentioned everything at the microphone of Tennis News.
“I was the French female hope, they saw me very quickly in the top 100 and I had an injury”
Tennis can be cruel. It’s not Leolia Jeanjean which will tell us the opposite. While she was promised a bright future, the Habs suffered a knee injury. A hard blow that completely changed his career. “Great memory les Petits As 2008 …It makes a little pang in the heart. I was the French female hope, they saw me very quickly in the top 100 and I had a knee injury. I haven’t played for two years. The takeover was very complicated, I lost my contracts. I couldn’t travel too much anymore because financially it was very complicated. With my family, we decided that I would go to the United States to study. It was better to secure my future outside of tennis. I have matured, I have learned to live on my own and I think that has helped me. Now I’m back, let’s see how it goes“, she said.
Roland-Garros qualifiers soon? “It would be magic, it would be a little dream come true”
At the beginning of the year, Leolia Jeanjean had reached the semi-finals and quarterfinals by $ 15,000 at Cancun to earn 7 WTA points. She also had an exceptional year being undefeated in the United States with her Floridian College of Lyn. The Frenchwoman of 25 years old has confirmed his return to form on the CREPS courts. Ambitions return. “I’m doing everything to come back anyway. I’m training hard. I’ve changed my structure (Editor’s note: the Toulouse stadium Pro team). I just want to play as much as possible, to travel for the ITF. If it works, great, otherwise it’s not that bad. I just want to play as much as I can in ITF, move up the rankings as quickly as possible and stay well physically“, she confided. And why not dream of a wild card qualifying for Roland-Garros ? “It would be magic. It would be a small dream come true because I have never had the chance to have a wild card qualifying for a Grand Slam.“The message is sent to Guy Forget.
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