2023 French Open – Women's Singles
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Iga Świątek Iga Natalia Świątek (; born 31 May 2001) is a Polish 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, Women’s Tenn ...
defeated
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in the final, 6–2, 5–7, 6–4 to win the women's singles tennis title at the
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. It was her third
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title and fourth
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title overall. Świątek was the third woman in the
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and
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) to win her first four major finals, and the youngest to win four majors since
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in 2002. She was the first player to defend the French Open title since
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in
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, and the first to defend any major title since Williams at the
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. Świątek retained the world No. 1 singles ranking after
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lost in the semifinals.
Beatriz Haddad Maia Beatriz "Bia" Haddad Maia (; born 30 May 1996) is a Brazilian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high of world No. 10 in singles and in doubles, becoming the first Brazilian woman to enter the top 10 in singles in the history of t ...
was the first Brazilian woman in the Open Era to reach the semifinals, and the first at any major since
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at the 1968 US Open. By reaching the semifinals, Haddad Maia entered the top 10 of the WTA rankings for the first time, the first Brazilian woman to do so. 12 of the 32 seeds reached the third round, the fewest since the French Open's draw was increased to 32 seeds in 2002. Elina Avanesyan was the first lucky loser to reach the fourth round since
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, and the first at any major since
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at the 1993 US Open. Ranked No. 333 in the world,
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova Anastasia Sergeyevna "Nastia" Pavlyuchenkova (; born 3 July 1991) is a Russian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles WTA rankings, ranking of world No. 11 on 8 November 2021. Pavlyuchenkova has won twelve singles titles ...
was the lowest-ranked player to reach the French Open quarterfinals. With world No. 192
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also reaching the quarterfinals, this marked the first time that two players ranked outside the top 150 in the world reached the quarterfinals at the same major.


Seeds


Draw


Finals


Top half


Section 1


Section 2


Section 3


Section 4


Bottom half


Section 5


Section 6


Section 7


Section 8


Championship match statistics


Seeded players

The following are the seeded players. Seedings are based on WTA rankings as of 22 May 2023. Rankings and points before are as of 29 May 2023. Because the tournament takes place one week later this year, players are defending points from the
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, as well as tournaments that took place during the week of 6 June 2022 (
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, and Valencia WTA 125). Points from the 2022 French Open are listed first in the "Points defending" column. † The player did not qualify for the main draw in 2022. Points for her 16th best result will be deducted instead.


Withdrawn players

The following players would have been seeded, but withdrew before the tournament began.


Other entry information


Wildcards


Protected ranking


Qualifiers


Lucky losers


Withdrawals

The entry list was released based on the WTA rankings for the week of 17 April 2023. † – not included on entry list
‡ – withdrew from entry list
§ – withdrew from main draw


References


External links


Draw

(WTA) tournament profile
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