Clara Tauson
Clara Tauson (born 21 December 2002) is a Danish professional tennis player. Her career-high rankings are world No. 21 in singles, achieved on 3 March 2025 and No. 124 in doubles, on 16 June same year. Tauson has won three WTA Tour titles, all o ...
defeated
Viktorija Golubic
Viktorija Golubic (; ; born 16 October 1992) is a Swiss professional tennis player. On 28 February 2022, she reached her career-high singles WTA ranking of No. 35. On 17 April 2023, she peaked at No. 61 in the doubles rankings. She is the curre ...
in the final, 6–4, 6–1 to win the singles tennis title at the
2021 WTA Lyon Open. It was her first
WTA Tour
The WTA Tour (also known as the Hologic WTA Tour for sponsorship reasons) is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women and organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125 series, and third-tier is the ITF Wome ...
title, and she won it as a qualifier. Tauson did not lose a set during the tournament, including qualifying rounds, and dropped just 35 games across seven matches. Tauson was the second Dane, after
Caroline Wozniacki
Caroline Wozniacki (; born 11 July 1990) is an inactive Danish professional tennis player. She has been ranked as the List of WTA number 1 ranked singles tennis players, world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA, hold ...
, to win a WTA Tour singles title. The final match was the first WTA singles final to be contested between two qualifiers since the
2017 Japan Women's Open.
Sofia Kenin
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Sofia Anna "Sonya" Kenin (born November 14, 1998) is an American professional tennis player. She has been WTA rankings, ranked as high as world No. 4 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA, and No. 26 in doubles. Kenin was named the ...
was the reigning champion, but chose not to participate after undergoing surgery for appendicitis.
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