After knocking out the former World Junior Girls, Glenn Joanna is just one step away from a ticket to the main draw of the 2025 French Open

In the second round of a women's singles qualifying match of the 2025 French Open Tennis Championships on the 22nd local time, the steady Chinese Taipei women's player Glenn Joanna defeated Croatia's 19-year-old rising star Matchenko 6:3, 6:4, and advanced to the third round of the finale with two consecutive wins, only one step away from the clay Grand Slam main draw ticket.

Chinese Taipei women's player Glenn Joanna

This week, WTA World Women's Singles No. 177 Glenn Joanna lost in the first qualifying round of the French Open for the first time in 2023 and now came back to learn from her experience and beat Switzerland's Neve in straight sets on her debut. The Grand Slam opened, the Chinese Taipei, British mixed-race player in the second round of the due rain delay tournament to chase the victory, facing the former world junior tennis queen, the Australian Open junior singles champion Machenko, the opening match after the "mutual break battle" prevailed, and then resolved the break point at the end of the set to take the next city.

In the second set, Glenn Joanna was full of firepower, breaking 5:1 in succession to open the gap, although in the 8th game Machenko broke back and stubbornly resisted, the Chinese Taipei women's single sister returned to the fire and finally won 4 consecutive balls to hold serve, and the fierce battle fell to the second set in 1 hour and 38 minutes. Glen Joanna passed two consecutive levels in the Paris Roland Garros qualifying tournament and will compete with German veteran Friedasham for the first Grand Slam ticket in her career on the evening of the 23rd.