Loïs Boisson was to compete in three tournaments to prepare the US Open (from August 24 to September 7) and find his sensations on hard, before discovering the courts of Flushing Meadows. But A left adductor injury decided otherwise and here is the French tenniswoman back to competition only a week before the New York deadline. The 22 -year -old Dijonnaise faces the Swiss Jil Teichmann (83e world), Monday, August 18 (at 5 p.m., in mainland France), in the first round of WTA 250 (the fourth level, after the Grand Chelem tournaments, the Masters 1000 and the WTA 500) of Cleveland, in Ohio.
Revelation of the latest Roland-Garros-she reached the semi-final, for her first Grand Chelem tournament, eliminating two members of the world top 10, when she was classified 361e – And winner of the WTA 250 from Hamburg (Germany), on July 20, Loïs Boisson is a specialist in clay. As proof, she won 110 of his 143 professional victories and all of its titles on this surface.
If the player had never tasted the lawn before June 24 and Wimbledon’s qualifications – Beaten in the first round by Canadian Carson Brantine -, on the other hand, she already has a few benchmarks on hard. However, his assessment remains modest: 33 victories for 38 defeats, a success rate of around 47 %. Its best results were a quarter -final at the WTA 125 in Limoges in 2023 and two others on the ITF circuit, in the lower division, in Grenoble then Mâcon, at the beginning of 2024. Three tournaments played indoors.
Find the pace of the competition
Propelled in the world top 50 after its epic Porte d’Auteuil and its success across the Rhine, the current French number 1 (47ᵉ at WTA) must now meet the expectations of the public. In addition, confirming on hard constitutes a challenge. Faster surface, different conditions: Loïs Boisson knows that it will have “Need time” To adapt her game to the surface, as she explained on a daily basis The teamat the end of July.
Package for WTA 1000 from Montreal (from July 27 to August 7) and Cincinnati (from August 7 to 18), Loïs Boisson missed two opportunities to gauge themselves in real conditions. Nevertheless, Cleveland will offer him a first overview of his ability to adapt his automatisms acquired on clay with American concrete. In the event of a victory against Jil Teichmann on Monday, the French will face a player from qualifying or the Japanese Moyuka Uchijima (89e) In the next round, before a duel potential against the Russian Ludmila Samsonova, seeded number one in the tournament and 18e global, in quarters.
Beyond the result, the objective will be to find the rhythm of the competition before its big beginnings in the noisy and dense atmosphere of Flushing Meadows. The Frenchwoman warned the Instagram social network: she wants to be “100 % for the US Open”.
