In the third round of the finale of the 2025 French Open singles qualifying tournament on the 23rd local time, Chinese Taipei women's Glenn Joanna fought fiercely for 2 hours and 12 minutes, and finally defeated the German veteran Friedasham 6:4, 7:5, and advanced to the main stage with 3 consecutive victories, which will also be her first appearance on the Grand Slam main event stage in her career.

Chinese Taipei women's player Glenn Joanna

This week, Glenn Joanna, ranked 177th in the WTA World Women's Singles, lost her first French Open qualifying tournament in 2023, and now she is back to learn from her experience, after eliminating Celine Naef of Switzerland and 19-year-old rising star Petra Marcinko of Croatia in straight sets, she continued to seize the opportunity to advance, and forced the 31-year-old Fridasham to break through three levels in a row and grab a ticket to the main draw of 128 clay Grand Slam women's singles without losing one set.

This is the second time since Liang Enshuo in 2021 that a Chinese Taipei player has advanced to the Paris Roland Garros Women's Singles Qualifying Tournament three times in a row; Glenn Joanna, who has reached the milestone of her Grand Slam career, also followed in the footsteps of Wang Siting, Li Huizhi, Xie Shuwei, Zhan Yongran, Zhang Kaizhen, and Liang Enshuo, becoming the seventh Chinese Taipei player to appear in the women's singles main draw of the French Open.

Glenn Joanna, who is of mixed Taiwanese and British descent, faced Friedasham, who was ranked 45 in the past, in the third round, and took the lead in the third game of the opening game. In the second set, Glenn Joanna took advantage of the victory to chase down and break through the 2-0 opening again, although she missed the final point of the match when she led 5-4, and was stubbornly resisted by her experienced and difficult opponent, she immediately broke back to extinguish the fire, and sealed the victory at the end of the second match.