Océane Babel (born 26 February 2004) is an inactive French
tennis
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player. She was awarded a
wildcard into the
2021 French Open, marking her singles debut at
major
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level, losing to
Elina Svitolina
Elina Mykhailivna Svitolina (, ; born 12 September 1994) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She reached career-high rankings of world No. 3 in singles and No. 108 in doubles by the WTA rankings, WTA. Svitolina has won 18 WTA Tour single ...
in the first round.
Career
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 (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 in which she was defeated by
Polina Kudermetova
Polina Eduardovna Kudermetova (, ''Polina Eduardovna Kudermetova'', born 4 June 2003) is a Russian professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the WTA as high as world No. 56 in singles, achieved on 31 March 2025, and No. 283 in double ...
. She then won the opening Grade-A junior tournament of the 2021 season, in Criciúma, Brazil.
In May 2021, she had a junior world ranking of number seven. That month, Babel was awarded a
wildcard into the
2021 French Open, marking her singles debut at
major
Major most commonly refers to:
* Major (rank), a military rank
* Academic major, an academic discipline to which an undergraduate student formally commits
* People named Major, including given names, surnames, nicknames
* Major and minor in musi ...
level, losing to
Elina Svitolina
Elina Mykhailivna Svitolina (, ; born 12 September 1994) is a Ukrainian professional tennis player. She reached career-high rankings of world No. 3 in singles and No. 108 in doubles by the WTA rankings, WTA. Svitolina has won 18 WTA Tour single ...
in the first round. She played the girls' singles at the
2021 Wimbledon Championships
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, and www the only French player in the girls' singles draw. She won 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(7-4) in the first round against the Slovakian
Radka Zelnickova, before being drawn against the Belarusian
Evialina Laskevich in the second round.
In March 2022, she won an ITF doubles tournament in
Amiens
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alongside compatriot
Lucie Nguyen Tan. In May 2022, she defeated
Alice Ramé and
Ekaterine Gorgodze, to reach the third round of qualifying for the
2022 French Open
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, before facing
Oksana Selekhmeteva.
Junior 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
21st-century French sportswomen