French Open Women's Singles Favourites

Springtime in Paris can only mean one thing in a sporting context - the French Open - and the second Grand Slam of the 2025 season has a competitive look to it when it comes to the women’s singles.

Poland's Iga Swiatek is favourite to successfully defend her clay-court crown and lift the trophy for a fifth time in six years, but her form is far from perfect.

Three-time Grand Slam champion and world No.1 Aryna Sabalenka is hoping to go one better than at this year's Australian Open where she finished runner-up to Madison Keys.

Mirra Andreeva and Coco Gauff will have their backers and what about China's Qinwen Zheng, who won Olympic gold at Roland Garros just last summer. 

2025 French Open Women's Singles Favourites

Iga Swiatek

If French Open pedigree is your yardstick for glory this year then you need look no further than Iga Swiatek.

The Polish star has made Roland Garros her second home by triumphing there four times in the last five years and she will take to the court as the defending champion.

However, she sits uneasily at the head of the betting having not won a title since last year's French Open and an early exit from the recent Italian Open confirmed that all is not sparkling in the Swiatek camp.

Aryna Sabalenka 

Swiatek's slide has allowed Aryna Sabalenka to assume top spot in the WTA rankings and her super consistency makes her a potential force in Paris.

In the Belarusian's last nine Grand Slams she has reached the semi-finals eight times, going on to win twice in Australia and once at the US Open.

Beaten by Madison Keys in the Melbourne final this year, she will be determined to avenge that surprising reverse in France. And her recent success in Madrid, where she beat Coco Gauff in the final, tells us her red-dirt game is in good order.

Mirra Andreeva

Mirra Andreeva is a player with a big future and, if her odds are accurate, then her future could be now.

Just 18, the Russian star has made swift strides on the big stage, announcing herself to the tennis world at Roland Garros 12 months ago when, as an unseeded outsider, she beat a pair of Belarus legends in Victoria Azarenka and Sabalenka to reach the semis.

Proving she was no one-hit wonder, Andreeva has bagged a pair of WTA 1000 titles in 2025 - in Dubai and Indian Wells - and has now cemented a place in the world top 10, the youngest to do so since 2007.

Coco Gauff

There are four Americans in the world top 10 right now and it's Coco Gauff of that quartet who looks to have that country's best chance of success in the women's singles.

The 2023 US Open champion has reached at least the quarter-finals on her last four visits to the French Open.

She rounded off 2024 by landing Tour Championship glory in Riyadh but her results in 2025 have been mixed, although the sense is, after good runs in Madrid and Rome, she is peaking nicely for Paris.

Qinwen Zheng 

Qinwen Zheng made history last summer when she became the first Asian player to win Olympic singles gold - and the fact she did it on the Roland Garros clay is significant.

The Chinese No.1 has been a model of consistency in 2025 with a string of quarter-final appearances, while a strong showing in Rome will have boosted morale ahead of her return to the French capital.

Elina Svitolina

Four-time French Open quarter-finalist Elina Svitolina - her first last-eight appearance was a decade ago - certainly has the knowhow around a clay court.

This will be the 30-year-old's 45th Grand Slam, and having reached the quarters in Melbourne in the winter, she knows she can still compete at the highest level.

Good runs in both Madrid and Rome also confirm that her clay-court game is in good shape.

Emma Raducanu 

The British No.2 realistically will do well to make the second week as her tournament odds illustrate.

The 2021 US Open champion reckons she's constantly improving on her least favourite surface, though the way she was dismantled by Gauff in the last 16 in Rome suggests there is a lot more improvement required.

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