Jonathan Jurejko
BBC Sport tennis news reporter at Roland Garros

Welcome to Poland Garros.

Not for the first time in recent years, tennis fans from Poland have taken over Roland Garros on women's final day.

The thousands with Polish flags, football scarves and red-and-white flower crowns are usually here to see Iga Swiatek.

Those who bought tickets well in advance this year would have been expecting to see the four-time champion again.

They certainly were not expecting to see Maja Chwalinska walking out today.

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The players have just made their way out onto Court Philippe Chatrier and the start of the match is not too far away.

Listen to live radio commentary of the French Open women's singles final on BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Sounds and via the link at the top of this page.

Mirra Andreeva and Maja Chwalinska have never met on the WTA Tour.

Andreeva, a former world number five, boasts a 6-0 record against players ranked outside the top 100 in 2026.

Chwalinska has never faced a player ranked inside the top 10 but has defeated four top-50 players in the past fortnight in Paris - something she had never done before.

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Great Britain's Alfie Hewett lost the first set of his men's wheelchair singles final against Japan's Tokito Oda, but he has the advantage of a break of serve in the second.

Still all to play for.

Chris Evert
Seven-time French Open singles champion on TNT Sports

Mirra is ready, she's primed for it. She's played on the big stages, she's beaten top players and she's played so well in this tournament.

The only players she lost to in her career are power players, so I think she'll be able to handle Maja.

Both of these players play very good clay-court tennis; they can grind and they can hit power shots.

Maja has shown us so many different shots, she just has every shot in the book and the players can't get any balls past her.

• First round - 6-3 6-3 v Fiona Ferro
• Second round - 3-6 6-1 6-1 v Marina Bassols Ribera
• Third round - 6-4 6-2 v Marie Bouzkova
• Fourth round - 6-3 6-2 v Jil Teichmann
• Quarter-finals - 6-0 6-3 v Sorana Cirstea
• Semi-finals - 6-1 6-3 v Marta Kostyuk

Aged 19 years and 39 days, Mirra Andreeva could become the first teenager to win the Roland Garros women's singles title since Iga Swiatek in 2020.

She would also become the youngest women's singles champion at the French Open since Monica Seles won her third straight title in 1992, aged 18.

Andreeva is the first player born after 2005 to reach a Grand Slam singles final - men's or women's.

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Eighth seed Mirra Andreeva enjoyed a career-best clay-court swing in the build-up to the French Open - winning the title in Linz and reaching the final and semi-finals in Madrid and Stuttgart respectively.

And she has continued that fine form in Paris, extending her clay record to 21-3 in 2026.

The 19-year-old has knocked out three of her fellow seeds and dropped just one set en route to the final.

In her past two matches, the eighth seed lost only seven games in wins against Sorana Cirstea and Marta Kostyuk.

Two of her five career singles titles have come on clay, while she won the women's doubles at the Rome Masters with Diana Shnaider earlier this year.

Jonathan Jurejko
BBC Sport tennis news reporter at Roland Garros

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As it stands, the final will begin as intended - as an outdoor match.

The roof is currently open with a bit of blue sky overhead. Not anticipating that to last, though...

Ryan Harrison
Former French Open men's doubles champion on BBC Radio 5 Live

It has been remarkable the way Maja Chwalinska has walked into these new occasions like she has been there before.

She plays unbelievably well, but with all that being said, I do think it is Mirra Andreeva's time. I think Andreeva has done all the right things.

She has consistency within her team, and she seems to take accountability when things go sideways.

Jonathan Jurejko
BBC Sport tennis news reporter at Roland Garros

Hearing other northern English accents at the hotel breakfast this morning was a warm and reassuring experience.

The accent and dialect was easily identifiable - loads of Wiganers had arrived in Paris.

Why? Because Wigan Warriors are playing Catalans Dragons in a Super League match being held over the road from Roland Garros.

This corner of south-west Paris - an area called Boulogne-Billancourt - really is a sporting enclave.

The centrepiece is not Roland Garros or Stade Jean Bouin, though.

That's the Parc des Princes - home to French and European champions Paris St-Germain.

Anne Keothavong
Former British number one on TNT Sports

Maja Chwalinska has been a wonderful story. It's the Cinderella story here at Roland Garros, regardless of how this match goes for her. I think she should be celebrated for her achievements.

She's played some wonderful tennis with lots of variety and she's been so much fun to watch.

Qualifying

• First round - 6-0 6-3 v Alice Rame
• Second round - 6-0 6-1 v Carole Monnet
• Third round - 7-6 (7-4) 7-5 v Suzan Lamens

Main draw

• First round - 6-4 6-0 v Zheng Qinwen
• Second round - 6-4 6-0 v Elise Mertens
• Third round - 1-6 6-3 6-2 v Maria Sakkari
• Fourth round - 6-3 6-2 v Diane Parry
• Quarter-finals - 7-6 (7-3) 6-3 v Anna Kalinskaya
• Semi-finals - 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 v Diana Shnaider

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Maja Chwalinska, 24, arrived in Paris ranked 114th in the world and came through three rounds of qualifying to make the main draw.

She has dropped only just one set, knocked out the reigning Olympic champion and three seeded players to move just one win away from a shock Grand Slam crown.

She is just the second qualifier to make a Grand Slam singles final in the Open era and the lowest-ranked woman to reach the French Open final since the WTA rankings began in November 1975.

Win or lose, she will be in the top 30 when the new rankings are released on Monday - and will be 14th if she lifts the title.

She has never previously been ranked inside the top 100.

Less than five years ago, Maja Chwalinska was considering quitting tennis for good, taking an indefinite break from the sport after exiting Wimbledon in the first round of qualifying.

Struggling with depression, she returned to her family home in Poland and sought help from mental health specialists. After a four-month break during which she took up running and boxing, she returned to the court.

In the past few months, she has been travelling around Europe on the lower rungs of the WTA Tour - Antalya, Dubrovnik, Oeiras (where she won the title). Her shock run in Paris, in just her third Grand Slam main draw outing, has been "like a dream".

This is her first Tour-level final, with a quarter-final at the 2026 Transylvania Open her previous best performance.

In 2021, Britain's Emma Raducanu made history as the first qualifier - male or female - to win a Grand Slam singles title.

Five years on, will Maja Chwalinska follow in her footsteps?

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Chris Evert
Seven-time French Open singles champion on TNT Sports

It'll be surreal for both of them. It'll be life-changing, their life will never be the same again after this. They're going to be famous, they'll be in demand, their lifestyle will change.

The most important thing is when they're walking up those stairs, they have to forget about all of that. They have to be in the moment, they have to keep it simple. All they want to do is get out there, run around and get the nerves out.

You just hope that you play your game and you're not overwhelmed.

Today's final will be contested by two players who have never made it this far in a major before.

It's been a French Open full of shocks in both the men's and women's singles.

In the women's draw, fifth seed Jessica Pegula went out in round one, while Australian Open champion and second seed Elena Rybakina was beaten in the second round by Yuliia Starodubtseva.

Anastasia Potapova defeated defending champion Coco Gauff in the third round, while four-time champion Iga Swiatek and world number one Aryna Sabalenka both failed to make it to the semi-finals.

Jonathan Jurejko
BBC Sport tennis news reporter at Roland Garros

The Paris heatwave seems like a distant memory.

Clear skies have been filled by clouds over the past few days and, as you can see from my commute over the Seine earlier, there are plenty around today.

A downpour meant the roof on Court Philippe Chatrier was closed for the men's doubles final.

With more rain forecast this afternoon, I'd imagine the women's final will also be played indoors.

I'd suggest more serene conditions would favour Andreeva.

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Earlier today, Great Britain's Henry Patten and Finnish partner Harri Heliovaara lost 6-4 6-2 to top seeds Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos in the French Open men's doubles final.

Second seeds Patten, 30, and Heliovaara, 37, were aiming to win a third Grand Slam title together as a partnership, following previous victories at Wimbledon in 2024 and the 2025 Australian Open.

They had reached their first French Open final without dropping a set, but Patten conceded afterwards that it was a "tough day" for the duo as Spain's Granollers, 40, and Argentina's Zeballos, 41, successfully defended their title in one hour and 16 minutes.

Patten would have become the first Briton to claim the men's doubles title in Paris during the Open era had he and Heliovaara triumphed.

However, they have the consolation of jointly becoming world number one when the rankings update on Monday.