ROLAND GARROS

May 24, 2026

Leolia Jeanjean

Press Conference

THE MODERATOR: How are you? Can you tell us how your prep for the French Open is going this year? What have you done so far?

LEOLIA JEANJEAN: I think my prep has been quite good so far. I've played quite a number of tournaments on clay recently, and they all went rather well. It's given me a little more self-confidence as opposed to other years. I've won good matches, and I spent the last week getting to know better the conditions. It's starting to get really hot.

So I think I am ready for tomorrow.

THE MODERATOR: Questions in French.

Q. You had a number of back-to-back victories in Madrid and in Rome following your quallies. How do you explain them?

LEOLIA JEANJEAN: How can I explain it? Well, at long last things are starting to fall into place. I'm working hard for -- I've been working hard for a long time. I've trained well, and I try to have the best possible team around me.

Sometimes things click positively, and so I've had good luck in those matches, and I've felt quite good about this.

Q. Is Guillaume Peyre still alongside you for that tournament?

LEOLIA JEANJEAN: Yes.

Q. What has he brought you since Madrid and Rome?

LEOLIA JEANJEAN: It's a little bit of everything. He's given me a clearer vision in tennis. He's been facilitating my vision of tennis.

And with Louis, who is my coach as well, he's been very helpful to clarify things. Perhaps we tended to make things more complicated vis-a-vis certain patterns or how to play certain opponents, so he's given us more clarity and calmness as well ever since he's been here with us. With my team we've felt much more calm.

Q. What about the match in Rome against Paolini? I would imagine that you would have thought you were about to win and it must have been very confusing to you. Can you tell us about this?

LEOLIA JEANJEAN: I had played against Jasmine at the United Cup at the start of the year, and clearly she had won against me quite easily. But before the match my idea was -- I felt that I was playing well, and she was not feeling so self-confident perhaps because she had not played so well in Madrid.

So when I got on the court, my vision was, let's have a good match and potentially win it. So I was not defeated at all.

Following the first set, it felt a little strange because I was on the central court in Rome, and I was leading with one set. It was my fourth round in a row. I had very hard quallies. I had played 2 hours and 40 minutes for every match.

So during the second set, things got harder for me. When you're really focused, you might tend to perhaps let go a little more than you should, which is very unforgiving because then you're going to lose 6-2 very quickly.

But I tried to get back on track and to do the things that I had done well during the first set and that had allowed me to win, but unfortunately tennis sometimes can lead to very tight results, and it doesn't take much for you to win or lose in tennis.

In terms of tennis, in terms of my mental state I was feeling very feisty. I didn't let myself think, look, I've lost now, so it doesn't really matter what happens afterwards. Not at all. I just held on tight.

Q. The conditions are going to be quite hard. How do you prepare for this? Are you going to adapt yourself, or are you used to this, because you've been playing around the world?

LEOLIA JEANJEAN: I think we're quite used to the heat, whether you're playing in Australia where the weather tends to be really hot. In Paris it doesn't happen so often that there will be so many days in a row where it's really hot.

I do have memories of really hot days playing in Paris, but not too many days in a row, but I do rather the current conditions to the cold conditions. We were in Paris last week, and it's really hard when you have to play in cold conditions.

I do enjoy hotter conditions because it makes things quicker and just the way that things happened in Madrid for me, it's actually playing in my favor when we have hot conditions. I'm quite happy that it's so sunny.

Q. Do you have any opinion on the five-set games for ladies? Is this something that you would like to play?

LEOLIA JEANJEAN: What about my opinion? I don't really have the ranking to have any opinion on this. Would that be good? It's quite strange.

On the one hand I want to say yes, because physically that would mean much more, and that would involve much more. And from quarterfinals very often you are going to have one-way matches where things are going to go really fast due to pressure and the stress. So perhaps in that sense.

But at the same time I don't believe that we'd be able to play an entire Grand Slam with five sets like men do, and in terms of prep, I think it would be quite impossible, but from quarterfinals, why not?

But, again, unfortunately I don't think I have the ranking to have any opinion on this.

Q. Your season has been quite promising on clay. So do you think that you're in a position to enter the top 100?

LEOLIA JEANJEAN: I hope so. I've managed to do that once, though I was out of the top 100 quite quickly, but I did manage to beat rather well-ranked women in a row who were ranked 50th or 70th.

When I won them, I did not feel that I was any below them. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to be, again, in the top 100 very quickly.