Glenn Joanna bravely reached the second round of the 2025 French Open, becoming the first Chinese Taipei female player since Xie Shuwei

"Chinese Taipei First Sister" Glenn Joanna's winning streak is unstoppable! After entering the women's singles main draw of the 2025 French Open from the qualifying round, the Taiwanese-British mixed-race female player seized the opportunity to make her Grand Slam debut, defeating the 23-year-old American contemporalist Katie Volynets 6:3, 3:6, 6:4, and becoming the first Taiwanese player since Xie Shuwei to enter the second round.

"Chinese Taipei First Sister" Glenn Joanna

This week, Glenn Joanna, ranked 175th in the WTA World Women's Singles, learned the lesson of losing the French Open qualifying tournament for the first time in 2023, and now has made a comeback with three consecutive wins and one set without losing one, and is strong on the clay Grand Slam main draw stage, which is also the only singles hope of the Chinese Taipei team this year. The "Chinese Taipei First Sister", who has been in good condition recently, was not afraid to face the 65-ranked Volynez in the first round, and the opening match went through mutual breaking and see-sawing, although the opponent broke back in the second set to pull back a city, and in the decisive set, Glenn Joanna withstood the pressure, counterattacked from 0:3, and finally won 4 games in a row with a dramatic reversal, and became the dark horse winner in 2 hours and 16 minutes.

Glenn Joanna continued her hand and tenacious fighting spirit, not only the sixth Chinese Taipei female player in history to win a single Grand Slam main event, but also the second time since Hsieh Shuwei in the second round of the French Open in 2020 that a Taiwanese player won the singles at Roland Garros in Paris for the first time in five years, and then forced Kazakhstan's 32nd seed Putintseva with many small moves and full of controversy, and continued to fight for a ticket to the round of 32.