A remarkable season. The year 2025 will remain as that of Loïs Boisson’s emergence at the highest level. Semi-finalist at Roland-Garros, the 22-year-old player revealed herself from her first participation. Invited by the organizers, the Dijonnaise, then 361st in the world at the WTA and a novice in a Grand Slam main draw, amazed everyone with her earthy athletic style of play and her striking power, beating two top 10s in a row (the American Jessica Pegula and the Russian Mirra Andreeva). Result: nearly 300 places gained in the world rankings and an entry into the Top 70.
In addition to her semi-final at Porte d’Auteuil, Loïs Boisson won, the following month, her first WTA 250 title in Hamburg (on clay), her second coronation on the WTA circuit after her victory at the Saint-Malo Open (WTA 125) in 2024. Thanks to a ratio of 79% of victories on ocher this season (seven defeats for 26 victories), shared between the secondary circuit and main, Loïs Boisson reached the best ranking of her career by finishing the year in 36th place in the world.
So many steps taken at full speed that she must now digest in order to look forward to next season. “She has already had several months to assimilate her results. She notably confirmed with her title in Hamburg, and tried to progress on a surface that was less hers, the hard one. She must keep a cool head, even if it is not necessarily easy, especially during the next Roland-Garros, where she will inevitably be eagerly awaited. However, we must not be in a hurry for the 2026 season”, considers Arnaud Clément, who calls on the player not to rush in her quest for progression.
“Everything is new for her. Even without talking about the financial aspect, she found herself playing new tournaments that she couldn’t access before, complete Nicolas Escudé, ex-top 20 and consultant for Eurosport.
“She had to quickly assume a status, and discover the demands that go with it. These are things to digest, assimilate and apprehend.”
Nicolas Escudé, ex-top 20 worldat franceinfo: sport
“What will be the most new and significant, for her and her staff, continues the former national technical director, will be to set new objectives, whether they are medium or long term, with a projection which will be much simpler than what they have experienced in the past on the secondary circuit, where we live a bit from day to day to grab points and earn a minimum of money to structure ourselves. supports the latter. Indeed, in 2026, with her new status and ranking, Loïs Boisson will be more subject to a schedule, and will have to play a certain number of obligatory tournaments on the circuit like all the best players in the world.
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In this wake, Loïs Boisson will have to learn to manage the expectations of an international public, but especially a French one who is looking for her new Roland-Garros champion to succeed Mary Pierce (in 2000). “There is the mental management of being expected but also of simply being known, which was not the case at the start of the year, reminder of Nicolas Escudé. We tend to minimize it, but the demands that are part of the job can, at some point, tire you mentally if you’re not careful, and make you forget the essential thing, which is above all to perform well on the field.”
Next season, she will also have to understand this new status as a player to beat, particularly on her favorite surface, clay. “She will have a target on her back, esteem Nicholas Escudé. The players know her better now. I draw a parallel with a Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard [58e mondial, deux titres ATP]who, when he arrived, surprised with his style of play, his warheads in service, and no one knew exactly its weapons and weaknesses, until they learned how to counter it.”
“Today, with Loïs Boisson, everyone knows that she can serve very well with her kick, that she has a huge forehand, but that her backhand is a little more feverish. Everyone now knows how to play her. The surprise factor will no longer work.”
Nicolas Escudé, ex-top 20 and consultant for Eurosportat franceinfo: sport
She will thus face adversaries who “will have put in place a very clear game plan and who will not attack the match in the same state of mind against her”, adds Arnaud Clément, who specifies, however, that in view of his athletic and tennis qualities, a “a small tactical adjustment will not be enough to destabilize it, in any case on clay.”
But reaching a peak, like at Roland-Garros and Hamburg, will not be his only goal. “Its objective will be to achieve un average level high enough to no longer be able to lose below. But acquiring it can take time. prevents Nicholas Escudé.
“The trap is to fall into an expectation, that of seeing her play all year long at the level that we saw at Roland-Garros, predicts the old top 20, Nicolas Escudé. She will experience weeks, or matches, where she will not feel the ball as well, where everything will not go as planned. This is why I say average level, because winning matches when everything is going well is easy. But when a grain of sand derails the machine, that’s precisely where we see the champions.”
Since her post-Roland-Garros media tour, Loïs Boisson has been discreet in the media in order to preserve herself. In a rare interview, given on December 2 to the show Clique, on Canal +, the young woman appeared posed: “I don’t have a ranking goal, I don’t want to put pressure on myself. My only goal is to play as long as possible because I love what I do. I want to have fun on and off the court,” confided Loïs Boisson, slipping that her “biggest dream is to win Roland-Garros”.
“Regarding ‘confirmation’, she doesn’t have any more pressure than that, had estimated his agent Jonathan Dasnières de Veigy, at Tennis News. For her, it’s really the start of a career, the start of a story, a first season in its entirety in 2026. She doesn’t tell herself that she absolutely has to ‘confirm’. Above all, she wants to achieve her goals. She’s really in this phase of discovering the circuit.” She will also play the Australian Open for the first time, alongside her new coach, the Spaniard Carlos Martinez, who took over from Florian Reynet at the end of August, who had led her to the last four of the French Open.
However, his first mission is already to come back from his injury, a tear in his left quadriceps which occurred at the end of September at the WTA 1000 in Beijing. Loïs Boisson, who has not played since her retirement in the third round of this tournament, finally resigned herself to ending her season on October 20. “I will take the time to rest and then very quickly return to training to come back stronger in 2026,” she wrote on her Instagram account. A forced rest that could prove beneficial.
