Wimbledon: No invitation for Loïs Boisson who will have to go through qualifying

Roland-Garros revelation Loïs Boisson and her French compatriot Caroline Garcia, who is in her final weeks on the WTA tour, have not received an invitation from the organizers of Wimbledon (which will be held from June 30 to July 13) to join the main draw, the latter announced on Wednesday, June 18, 2025.

The two French players will therefore have to go through qualifying to hope to enter the draw. The All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC), organizer of the third Grand Slam of the season, has chosen to award seven of its eight invitations for the women's main draw to British players.

The only foreign beneficiary of a wild card for the main draw is the Czech Petra Kvitova (former world number 2, now ranked 572nd), a two-time winner of the prestigious London grass-court tournament (2011 and 2014).

A surprise semi-finalist at Roland-Garros in early June when she was ranked 361st in the world, Loïs Boisson (22 years old) published a video of herself training on a grass court at the beginning of the week, a surface she is new to.

Although she is now 67th in the WTA rankings, a position which should allow her to enter the main draw of the US Open (August 24 to September 7), the Dijon native was not yet ranked high enough when Wimbledon finalized the list of players exempt from qualifying.

Unlike the Australian and American Tennis Federations, which are linked to the French Tennis Federation (FFT) by reciprocal agreements that mean invitations for French players to the Australian Open and the US Open, Wimbledon is under no obligation to invite a French player to the main draw.

Like Loïs Boisson, Caroline Garcia has paid the price. The woman, who announced in May that she was living her "last weeks" on the tour, is ranked 162nd and will therefore not be able to directly enter the women's singles main draw, which has 128 players.

"I would love to play Wimbledon," the Frenchwoman, former world number 4, said at a press conference in Paris. "Since my ranking has dropped a little, we'll see if I get an invitation or not. And then, it's off to the US Open," Garcia hoped.

In the men's draw, the first seven invitations for the main draw have been awarded to British players, with the eighth remaining to be filled.