Océane Babel

Océane Babel (born 26 February 2004) is a French tennis player. She was awarded a wildcard into the 2021 French Open, marking her singles debut at major level, losing to Elina Svitolina in the first round.

Career Babel started playing tennis at five years old after practicing on the Nintendo Wii. After joining the Sarcellois Tennis Club in Val d'Oise, 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. 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 level, losing to Elina Svitolina in the first round. She played the girls' singles at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships, 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 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, 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: 5 (3 title, 2 runner-ups) LegendW35 tournamentsW15 tournamentsFinals by surfaceHard (0–1)Clay (3–1)

Doubles: 11 (4 titles, 7 runner-ups) LegendW25 tournamentsW15 tournamentsFinals by surfaceHard (2–2)Clay (2–5)