Tennis is going through difficult times with this unprecedented health crisis. But he also saw a unique moment in the history of French tennis with 3 French women who have succeeded in first place in the world over the last 3 years.

Junior ladies tennis shines

With Elsa Jacquemot wins in the 3rd round of the Super Bowl and the defeat at the same time of the world number 2, Victoria Jiménez Kasintseva, the Frenchwoman made sure to finish the year 2020, in the first place in the world.

This allows France to shine among the Juniors. Indeed, she is the 3rd French player to finish first in the world in 3 years. An incredible event. Clara Burel in 2018 and Diane Paris in 2019 had launched the dynamic. Elsa Jacquemot thus allows France to remain on the top step of the podium in junior women's tennis.

A promising future

Being a tennis world champion can go a long way. The most famous of them, Amélie Mauresmo, can talk about it, since she will become the world number one for juniors in 1996. We know the rest of her exceptional career.

More recently, it's Kristina Mladenovic who stands out today on the professional tennis circuit. She was world number one in 2009.

We hope that our 3 recent junior tennis champions will distinguish themselves on the professional circuit in the years to come.

A sentence that disturbs / amuses?

The President of the FFT, Bernard Giudicelli, congratulated himself on these fine performances of our French with a sentence that could make people talk (and that already makes people talk!): “Let's imagine that we had nothing to do with it, something went well all the same! ”

We can see that politics and elections are in people's minds… To assimilate these good results to the current FFT team is nevertheless complicated to confirm.

Indeed, today's performances are probably and above all the results of the policies carried out by the predecessors. In this case, Jean Gachassin who therefore remained at the head of the FFT from 2009 to 2017. Sometimes harshly criticized by the media, he sees his policy and the results of his teams here today.

Being president and coaches are sometimes thankless tasks ...

Here is Bernard Giudicelli's words :

It's 19 p.m. at Plantation, Florida. Elsa became world No. 1 in 2020.

French women's tennis can put on a big smile.

World No. 1 Juniors
2020: Elsa Jacquemot
2019: Diane Paris
2018: Clara Burel
2009: Kristina Mladenovic
1996: Amélie Mauresmo
1983: Pascale Paradis
Let's imagine that we had nothing to do with it, something happened all the same!

tennis number one world history

Franck Binisti

Franck Binisti discovers the padel at the Club des Pyramides in 2009 in the Paris region. Since padel is part of his life. You often see him touring France going to cover the major events of padel French.

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