Océane Babel (born 26 February 2004) is a French professional
tennis
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player.
Babel started playing tennis at five years old after practicing on the
Nintendo Wii
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. After joining the Sarcellois Tennis Club in
Val d'Oise
Val-d'Oise (, "Vale of the Oise") is a department in the Île-de-France region, Northern France. It was created in 1968 following the split of the Seine-et-Oise department. In 2019, Val-d'Oise had a population of 1,249,674. , she became France under-13 champion in 2017 and repeated the performance the following year in the under-14 category. She then moved to the
National Training Center
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(CNE) of the Federation in September 2018 where she began to be coached by
Noëlle van Lottum. Babel reached the quarterfinals of the girls' singles draw at the
2020 French Open
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in which she was defeated by
Polina Kudermetova. She then won the opening Grade-A junior tournament of the 2021 season, in Criciúma, Brazil.
In May 2021, Babel was awarded a
wildcard
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* Wild card (cards), a playing card that substitutes for any other card in card games
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into the
2021 French Open women's singles, marking her debut at
major level.
Junior career
Grand Slam performance
Singles:
* Australian Open: –
* French Open: QF (2020)
* Wimbledon: 2R (2021)
* US Open: 2R (2021)
Doubles:
* Australian Open: –
* French Open: 2R (2020)
* Wimbledon: 1R (2021)
* US Open: 1R(2021)
ITF finals
Singles: 1 (runner-up)
Doubles: 7 (4 titles, 3 runner-ups)
References
External links
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2004 births
Living people
French female tennis players
Tennis players from Paris
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