From Roland Garros sensation to injury nightmare as Lois Boisson returns: "There were quite a few mistakes on the medical side"
WTATuesday, 21 April 2026 at 08:30
One of the main returnees this week will be a certain Lois Boisson who will play her first tennis in a number of months a year on from her epic run to the semi-finals at the French Open.
Boisson was more famously known for Deodorant gate as it was known before her run last year as Harriet Dart told the umpire that in effect Boisson wasn't wearing deodorant and while Dart went backwards if anything, Boisson thrived and escaped that attention.
The French now 22-year-old was on the radar a year earlier when she sealed a French Open debut dominating the rankings to get a wildcard until disaster struck as she tore her ACL. She has not played competitively since September.
She now works with Amanda Anisimova's coach up until recently and concedes there were medical mistakes. "The last few months have been very difficult –- the most difficult since I started playing tennis," Boisson said ahead of Madrid. "I didn't handle them very well mentally, let's say."
But while she hasn't been put out to pasture yet, she said that she still has great belief as to what she can achieve in the game and is working towards that end now she is back.
"I'm convinced I have what it takes to achieve great things in tennis," she insisted. "I'm happy today to have come out of it stronger and to have come to terms with it all a bit."
But also admits the pressure perhaps of that run to the semi-finals followed by winning Hamburg did in fact get to her more than she realised. "Perhaps without realising it, it added a kind of stress, a sense of pressure -– something I simply wasn't used to dealing with –- all that attention surrounding me," she said.
Minor injuries not treated properly
But she also opened up on why she wasn't back sooner with the sense of frustration being down to the fact that she seemed to suffer quite a minor injury. Not the case said Boisson as it was exacerbated.
"The two minor injuries I had to my leg weren't serious," she explained. "It was mainly this arm injury that was unexpected, to be honest, and difficult to manage.
"There were quite a few mistakes on the medical side. Each time, I was given timings that weren't realistic... That's also why there were so many false starts."
Lois Boisson - one of the true stars of last clay court season.
But she is positive and plays Peyton Stearns on Tuesday ready to attack the season as she has semi-final points to defend at Roland Garros.
"There's a really good vibe here," Boisson said. "Being back on the circuit, at a tournament, I feel it's giving me something I haven't had for a while. It's also helping me to continue with this process of healing."
"I don't have any particular expectations. Obviously, I'm going out on court to win, to give it my all.
"But above all, I'll be absolutely delighted just to be out on court playing tennis and playing without any pain."
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