
Another teen tennis phenom has entered the chat.
On Saturday, Mirra Andreeva, 19, won her first career grand slam, defeating unlikely finalist Maja Chwalinska, who played through the qualifying rounds to even reach the main field, in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2. Andreeva only dropped one set — in the second round — the entire tournament, winning her final 12 sets overall.
With the victory, Andreeva became the first teenager to win a grand slam since Coco Gauff took the 2023 U.S. Open, also at 19. She's the fifth teen this decade to win a major title, also joining Iga Swiatek (2020 French Open) and Emma Raducanu (2021 U.S. Open) on the women's draw and Carlos Alcaraz (2022 U.S. Open) in the men's.
Having just turned 19 in March, Andreeva is also the youngest Roland Garros champ since Monica Seles won her third consecutive Suzanne-Lenglen Cup at 18 in 1992 and the fourth-younger player ever to win their first grand slam at the French Open.
Mirra Andreeva wins the French Open!
— ESPN Insights (@ESPNInsights) June 6, 2026
At just 19 years, 38 days old, Andreeva is the youngest woman to win the French Open title since Monica Seles in 1992. pic.twitter.com/iGbELlrmCV
4 - Mirra Andreeva is the fourth-youngest player in the Open Era to claim her maiden Women’s Singles title at Roland Garros, older only than Monica Seles (1990), Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (1989) and Steffi Graf (1987). Fantastic.#RolandGarros | @rolandgarros @WTA pic.twitter.com/V7F7ep7SSb
— OptaAce (@OptaAce) June 6, 2026
The world's No. 8-ranked player cruised in her first grand slam triumph, showing signs of someone with potentially many more major titles to follow.
OptaStats shared several stats to illustrated how dominant Andreeva's 2026 French Open run was. Beginning at the start of the second week with the round of 16, she dropped 17 games in her last four matches. Only Swiatek (2020, 2024) and Steffi Graf (1988) lost fewer games en route to a championship in the open era during the second week.
17 - In the Open Era, only Iga Swiatek (2024 and 2020) and Steffi Graf (1988) have dropped less games than Mirra Andreeva (17 in 2026) in the second week (from the Round of 16) en route to Roland Garros’s title. Steamroll.#RolandGarros | @rolandgarros @WTA pic.twitter.com/FAoYhSXGY2
— OptaAce (@OptaAce) June 6, 2026
Andreeva also has 18 main-draw Roland Garros wins, tied for the fifth-most by a women's tennis player in her first four French Open appearances during the open era.
18 - Among players starting their careers in the Open Era, only four have claimed more Women’s Singles main draw wins at Roland Garros in their first four appearances at the event than Mirra Andreeva (18). Feeling.#RolandGarros | @rolandgarros @WTA pic.twitter.com/MdmOANjTVa
— OptaAce (@OptaAce) June 6, 2026
Clay has quickly become Andreeva's best surface, with Tennis Abstract data showing she's gone 22-3 playing on it since the start of the 2026 clay court season.
That all points to Andreeva being a major player at Roland-Garros for years to come. Her biggest question, then, is how quickly she can dominate other surfaces.
Andreeva is 8-6 in her career on grass courts but is coming off a run to the quarterfinals at last year's Wimbledon, the next major on the docket. Her previous best finish at the U.S. Open, played on hard surface, is the third round in 2025.
Saturday's victory culminated a masterful two weeks in Paris for Andreeva. She played well beyond her years, and she should spend the next several as a major threat to add to her trophy collection.
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