Overview
- Mirra Andreeva beat Poland’s Maja Chwalinska 6-3, 6-2 on Saturday to claim her first Grand Slam title.
- Andreeva is the youngest women’s champion at Roland Garros since Monica Seles in 1992 and the first player born after 2005 to win a major, and she is the first Russian woman to win a Slam since Maria Sharapova in 2014.
- Maja Chwalinska reached the final after winning nine matches from qualifying to become the first qualifier in the Open era to make the French Open final, and her runner-up finish will move her into the top 25 and pay her about $1.61 million.
- The champion will collect roughly $3.22 million and Andreeva, who entered Roland Garros ranked No. 8, is projected to rise to about No. 6 and is scheduled to play the Bad Homburg grass warm-up ahead of Wimbledon.
- The final underlines a generational shift on the WTA Tour and shows how an unusually open draw, high-profile upsets and tensions over Russian players’ neutral status shaped this edition of Roland Garros.