Mirra Andreeva, 19, wins French Open to become youngest women's singles champion since 1992

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Mirra Andreeva, a 19-year-old Russian tennis pro, won her archetypal Grand Slam rubric connected Saturday, defeating Maja Chwalinska to triumph the French Open.

Andreeva won successful 2 sets, 6-3, 6-2, implicit the 114th-ranked Polish qualifier. Andreeva became the youngest subordinate to triumph the women’s singles rubric since Monica Seles, who was 18 erstwhile she won her 3rd consecutive French Open successful 1992.

She besides became the archetypal Russian pistillate to triumph a Grand Slam since Maria Sharapova won the 2014 French Open and became the archetypal teen to triumph a Grand Slam rubric since Coco Gauff did truthful astatine the 2023 U.S. Open, erstwhile she was 19.

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Mirra Andreeva holding trophy aft  winning tennis final

Russia's Mirra Andreeva holds the trophy aft winning the last tennis lucifer against Poland's Maja Chwalinska astatine the French Open successful Paris connected June 6, 2026. (Thibault Camus/AP)

Andreeva besides became the archetypal antheral oregon pistillate tennis subordinate calved successful 2005 to scope and triumph a Grand Slam title.

When Andreeva executed a backhand cross-court victor connected her archetypal lucifer point, the Russian dropped to her knees connected the clay to celebrate.

"You’re truthful young and talented. It’s truthful annoying," Chwalinska told Andreeva during the awards ceremony.

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Mirra Andreeva celebrating aft  winning women's tennis last  match

Russia's Mirra Andreeva celebrates aft winning the last women's tennis lucifer against Poland's Maja Chwalinska astatine the French Open successful Paris connected June 6, 2026. (Christophe Ena/AP Photo)

Andreeva thanked herself for warring "so galore demons" during her rubric tally astatine the awards ceremony.

"For believing successful myself, ever giving my 100%, adjacent erstwhile it’s tough, trying each time to beryllium amended arsenic a idiosyncratic and arsenic a player, believing that I tin bash this, warring truthful galore demons wrong of me," Andreeva said.

"Only I cognize however pugnacious it was for me," Andreeva added. "How tense I was passim these 2 weeks."

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Mirra Andreeva holding trophy aft  winning tennis final

Russia's Mirra Andreeva holds the trophy aft winning the last tennis lucifer against Poland's Maja Chwalinska astatine the French Open successful Paris connected June 6, 2026. (Thibault Camus/AP)

The lucifer was tied 3-3 successful the archetypal set, but Andreeva past won 20 of the adjacent 21 points to triumph the acceptable and instrumentality power of the match.

Chwalinska was attempting to go the archetypal qualifier to seizure the Roland Garros title.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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