Here’s Lois Boisson again. Surprise semi-finalist at Roland-Garros 2025, winner in Hamburg a few weeks later – her first WTA 250 title – the Frenchwoman makes her comeback to competition on Tuesday at the WTA 1000 in Madrid, where she will face the American Peyton Stearns. She has not played competitively since September due to several injuries but also medical errors. A painful page that Lois Boisson hopes is behind her one month before Roland-Garros.
After more than six months away from the courts, how do you feel?
If I’m here, it’s because things are better. These last few months have been very complicated, the most complicated since I started playing tennis. I also managed them poorly mentally, let’s just say. But the fact that everything happened like that, I also tell myself that it’s not a coincidence, that it taught me things and that it will also help me for the future. I am convinced that I have the ability to do great things in tennis. I’m happy today to come out stronger and to have digested it all a little.
Was it difficult to digest this period after the expectations raised by your journey at Roland-Garros?
Perhaps without knowing it, yes, it added a kind of stress, pressure, something that I was simply not used to experiencing, all this attention around me. It’s mainly because of the injuries, the fact of not being able to do what I could have done thanks to Roland-Garros.
How do you explain this sequence of injuries (leg then arm)?
The two small injuries I had on my leg weren’t serious, they happen to everyone at some point. Playing a lot of matches too, stringing them together, is physically complicated. It was especially this arm injury that was unexpected, honestly, and complicated to manage.
You have delayed your return several times. Do you think you were nervous about getting back on a tennis court?
There were quite a few errors on the medical side. Each time I was told times that were not real and which were not the times I needed. This is also why there were lots of false returns (at the WTA 250 in Rouen, in particular). I was too short on deadline. I was unable to resume certain tennis shots just before the date. So there was no point in going to play a match. I couldn’t finish it.
Was the contrast between the media and public attention after Roland-Garros and your six months of absence difficult?
Yes and no, because in the end, it just came back a bit like it was before, like I’ve always experienced it. The only thing that was hard actually was being off the court, that’s all.
What are your first feelings like in Madrid?
Really good energy. Coming back to the circuit, to a tournament, I feel like it gives me something that I haven’t had for a while. It also helps me continue this healing process.
You are now working with the Dutchman Hendrick Vleeshouwers, former coach of Amanda Anisimova. What can it bring you?
Only good, in my opinion. He’s a coach I’ve known for a long time. When I was young, I was able to spend a few weeks with him. We knew each other off the field, let’s say. He has a lot of experience on the circuit. And we clearly have the same vision for me, for my game, for my tennis.
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