By Erik Gudris | @atntennis | Monday, March 24, 2025
Picture credit score: Clive Brunskill/Getty
Name it “Le Comeback!”
In a shock announcement, or maybe not giving her mercurial persona, Alizé Cornet revealed that she is going to return to tennis after retiring final yr.
Cornet, 35, introduced that she plans to compete on the upcoming Open Capfinances Rouen Métropole occasion in France.
It will be her first match again since she formally retired ultimately yr’s Roland Garros again in Could 2024 after a first-round loss to China’s Qinwen Zheng.
“You thought you had been rid of me, that isn’t fairly the case but! So see you quickly to get excited once more all collectively,” Cornet mentioned in a press release on the match’s web site.
Le come again de l’année c’est celui d’Alizé Cornet et c’est à l’Open Capfinances Rouen Métropole que ça se passe 💥🎾🤩🇫🇷👉🏼 https://t.co/2JbsmOt5N5 pic.twitter.com/4vd6H2kE7D
— Open Capfinances Rouen Métropole (@OpenRouen) March 24, 2025
“I’m extraordinarily blissful to be again taking part in on the courts of the Open Capfinances Rouen Métropole for what’s for me a really thrilling return to competitors,” Cornet mentioned. “Once I began coaching once more two months in the past, I instantly had this purpose in thoughts, to be prepared for Rouen and I thank Charles (Roche) for giving me this opportunity to have the ability to enter the principle draw straight.”
The match prolonged Cornet a principal draw wild card into the WTA 250 occasion going down in mid-April.
A career-high rating of World No.11, six singles titles on the Hologic WTA Tour, and a document 69 consecutive Grand Slam appearances 👏Thanks for a tremendous profession, @alizecornet! #MerciAlizé pic.twitter.com/YeeUwHlK0m
— wta (@WTA) May 28, 2024
“What a pleasure to see Alizé, one of many best champions of French tennis, again on the courts of the Open Capfinances Rouen Métropole in just a few weeks on the Kindarena. An impressive competitor, there is no doubt she’ll give her all on the courtroom as normal,” mentioned Charles Roche, match director.
Cornet reached a career-high rating of World No. 11 in 2009, received six WTA singles titles, and in addition holds a historic document of taking part in in 69 consecutive Grand Slam tournaments, a streak that runs from the 2007 Australian Open to Roland Garros in 2024.
