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Léolia Jeanjean

French tennis player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ107608347 ↗
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Léolia Jeanjean (born 14 August 1995) is a French tennis player.

She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 91 by the WTA, achieved on 18 August 2025. Her highest doubles ranking is No. 162, reached on 18 March 2024.

Early life

Jeanjean was a gifted juniors player, but suffered a serious knee injury at age 14.

In 2008, Jeanjean was a quarterfinalist in Les Petits As and reached the final of the French U14 Championship. A league coach was then assigned to spend eleven weeks a year in La Grande-Motte, her home.

In 2009, she received a wildcard at Roland Garros for the junior singles and another for the junior doubles with her partner Darja Salnikova, but she was eliminated in the first round each time. She was invited again in 2010, but did not do better in singles, while in doubles with Clothilde de Bernardi, she reached the quarterfinals.

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“Léolia Jeanjean” enters the record as french tennis player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Léolia, Jeanjean and French can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 2025, 2024, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-08-14. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Léolia, Jeanjean and French.
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“Léolia Jeanjean” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Léolia, Jeanjean and French provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q107608347. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995, 2025, 2024 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Léolia Jeanjean” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.