Classified 361st world before Roland-Garros, the Dijonnaise Loïs Boisson has foiled all the forecasts and defeated two members of the Top 10 (Jessica Pegula then Mirra Andreeva) to climb in the semi-finals in Paris. But if the clay specialist won her first title on the main circuit at the WTA 250 in Hamburg in July at 22 years, she was eliminated in the first round of Wimbledon qualifications and then in the first round of the US Open.
“My game remains my game on any surface. (It is) just to find the consistency […] Throughout the year. For the moment, I am not there yet, “recognized the player in New York, now 46th in the world, looking for a new coach after having separated from Florian Reynet.
Disappointment: Arthur son
Author of a thunderous beginning of spring where he chained the quarterfinals in Masters 1000, the French N.1 Arthur son finished his 2025 Grand Slam campaign on a cruel assessment of two abandonments (Australian Open and Roland-Garros) and two packages (Wimbledon and US Open). Wounded in the foot in Melbourne, then on the back from Roland-Garros, the 20th world will have to wait to reissue his 2024 performance in Wimbledon, when he had reached the knockout stages.
After his abandonment at Roland-Garros, Arthur son had put forward his desire to take his time to recover. “I still have time on the circuit, this is not the moment when I have to hurry. If I can take a little more time to recover well and be ready to play the season on hard and all the end of the year, it is not worse, “argued the young player, 21.
Honorable mentions: Adrian Mannarino, Gaël Monfils and Diane Parry
In January at the antipodes, the season had started with the exciting journey to Melbourne of the eternal Gaël Monfils, eighth-of-finalist at 38 years old after having notably defeated the 4th world Taylor Fritz. The Parisian has since returned to the rank, but does not yet think of retirement since his “last objective” is to play up to 40 years.
Another veteran of the circuit, Adrian Mannarino (37) experienced an opposite trajectory, passing most of the first half outside the top 100 before going up the slope to Wimbledon (3rd round) then New York (eighth). Diane Parry (22) also turned a difficult page, that of her serious left knee injury in November 2024, reaching the third round in Wimbledon before moving on to a first eighth finals at the US Open.
Les Interrogates: Ugo Humbert, Varvara Gracheva, Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard
N.1 French at the beginning of the year in the wake of its final at the Masters 1000 in Paris in November 2024, Ugo Humbert seemed ready to cross the glass ceiling of the knockout stages in Grand Slam. If he was one of the sixteen at the Australian Open, the 27-year-old left-hander gave up in the second round of Roland-Garros and lost as soon as he entered Wimbledon and the US Open. Wounded in one hand then on the back, the Lorraine himself spoke of a “season to forget”, and separated from his coach Fabrice Martin.
Eighth-de-finalist at Roland-Garros in 2024, Varvara Gracheva (25) seemed most likely to take over from the former French Locomotive Caroline Garcia, now retired. Despite a quarter -final quarter of the WTA 1000 tournament in Cincinnati in August, the Brand Chelem record is indigent: second round at the Australian Open, first round in Paris and London, defeat in qualifying in New York.
