ITF W75 Saint-Gaudens: Tatiana Prozorova vs Lois Boisson final analysis
Boisson is back on track, one year later
Lois Boisson (WTA #302) pulled off a 7-6 [7:4], 6-0 win over 4-seed Tatiana Prozorova (WTA #172) in the ITF W75 Saint-Gaudens final to get back in the champion’s column, exactly a year after suffering a brutal injury.
It was during her first round match of last year’s Trophée Clarins Paris (WTA 125) that disaster struck and, in a second, Boisson went from being the surprise story of the clay court season at second tier events to missing the rest of the year.
Until that moment, Boisson had enjoyed a stunning Spring of 2024 breakthrough, racking up wins and trophies while moving up tournament levels with astonishing ease.
Boisson 2024 clay season breakthrough
won first 18 matches
23-1 match record
3 ITF Tour titles at W35 Alaminos-Larnaca, W35 Terrassa, W75 Bellinzona
WTA 125 champion at Saint-Malo
Fresh off a first career WTA 125 title at Saint-Malo, the then 20-year old Frenchwoman was on the verge of a maiden main draw participation at Roland Garros. But her dreams were brutally put on hold when she suffered a left knee anterior cruciate ligament rupture in that unfortunate match and was sidelined for 9 months.
If “Unluckiest Player of the Year” was awarded by WTA/ITF Tours, Boisson would have been its top candidate!
One year later, Boisson may have come full circle.
Shaking off the rust quickly, she was back in a final at W35 Ter in only her fourth event of 2025 and proceeded to win her WTA Tour debut match in Rouen. A very successful week in Saint-Gaudens has now followed, bringing with it a 7th professional singles title and lifting the season record to 16-7.
It that wasn’t motif enough to celebrate, the French Tennis Federation has just given Boisson a Major reason to commemorate by including her among the main draw wild cards announced for the upcoming French Open.
Match analysis
Boisson served up something special in the W75 Saint-Gaudens final.
Between aces and quality serves that forced return errors, Boisson blasted 21 winning deliveries. Prozorova could only counter with 5.
Winning serves (aces+serves forcing return errors)
Prozorova: 5 (1+4)
Boisson: 21 (4+17)
The resulting 16-point difference matches perfectly with Boisson’s final margin of victory of 15 points (87 to 72).
Boisson was particularly efficient collecting free points off Deuce side 1st serves down the T. Out of 11 such deliveries, the Frenchwoman aced once and forced 7 missed returns (marked by green circle, below).
→ Some of Boisson’s T serves that gave Prozorova so many problems. Notice how Boisson was able to deliver an unreturned bomb to start off the match, 2 other serve games and the first set tie-break
📺 source: ITF Tour
Overall, it was Boisson’s ability to generate 44% of unreturned 1st serves — against only 12& from Prozorova — that enabled her to finish with a significantly better 1st serve win-rate (76% vs 62%) and eventually secure the title.
Serve Performances
1st serves made: Prozorova 54% / Boisson 56%
unreturned 1st serves: Prozorova 12% / Boisson 44%
1st serves won: Prozorova 62% / Boisson 76%
unreturned 2nd serves: Prozorova 15% / Boisson 22%
2nd serves won: Prozorova 42% / Boisson 44%
Because Prozorova’s backhand was the main target of Boisson’s serves and accumulated 35 errors against 12 from Boisson, the 21-year old Russian finished with a backhand performance that was 17 points worse (-27 to -10).
But Prozorova performed 8 points better from the forehand wing (-15 to -23), generating 18 winners while making the same number of errors.
Forehand Performances
Prozorova: 18 winners / 33 errors = -15
Boisson: 10 winners / 33 errors = -23
Backhand Performances
Prozorova: 8 winners / 35 errors = -27
Boisson: 2 winners / 12 errors = -10
Curiously, Prozorova had a superior baseline win-rate (51% to 45%), won more baseline duels (44 to 38) and more total rallies (57 to 54).
Numbers that highlight just how costly it was for her failing to land more returns into court.
To finish off this analysis, here are a couple of concluding remarks:
The majority of Prozorova’s winning groundstrokes — 18 of 30 — were directed down the line (blue box, below)
Compared to her opponent, Boisson was a lot more productive with run-around forehands. She managed to strike 10 winning inside-in/inside-out forehands, albeit with 8 unforced errors (green box, below)
Tatiana Prozorova (WTA #172, seed 4) vs Lois Boisson (WTA #312)
2025 Saint-Gaudens final - Match Data
Set by Set Stats
Points Won by Rally Length
Rally Length
Strokes Breakdown
Serve and Return
2nd Serves
Return & rallying performance
Points won breakdown
This final section gives a last, broader look at the match by presenting how each player won points. Points are listed according to their frequency (highest to lowest) and are named in relation to the last touch on the ball. For simplicity, groundstrokes hit from the 5th shot onwards are grouped together.
Breakdown by side (FHs or BHs)
Breakdown by error type (UFEs or FEs)
To find out more about the stats published here, please visit the following post.
While we follow the same criteria used on all major tennis events, our stats are collected through our own video analysis and are not official WTA or ITF stats.
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