Océane Babel

Océane Babel
	Babel at the 2022 French Open
Country (sports)	France
Born	26 February 2004 (age 20); Paris
Plays	Left (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$127,469
Singles
Career record	64–62
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 442 (2 January 2023)
Grand Slam singles results
French Open	1R (2021)
Doubles
Career record	38–32
Career titles	4 ITF
Highest ranking	No. 455 (20 February 2023)
	Last updated on: 8 August 2024.

Océane Babel (born 26 February 2004) is an inactive French tennis player.

Career

Babel started playing tennis at five years old after practicing on the Nintendo Wii. After joining the Sarcellois Tennis Club in Val d'Oise, she became France under-13 champion in 2017 and repeated the performance the following year in the under-14 category. She then moved to the National Training Center (CNE) of the Federation in September 2018 where she began to be coached by Noëlle van Lottum.^[1] Babel reached the quarterfinals of the girls' singles draw at the 2020 French Open in which she was defeated by Polina Kudermetova. She then won the opening Grade-A junior tournament of the 2021 season, in Criciúma, Brazil.^[2]

In May 2021, Babel was awarded a wildcard into the 2021 French Open women's singles, marking her debut at major level.^[3]

Junior Grand Slam performance

Singles:

Australian Open: –
French Open: QF (2020)
Wimbledon: 2R (2021)
US Open: 2R (2021)

Doubles:

Australian Open: –
French Open: 2R (2020)
Wimbledon: 1R (2021)
US Open: 1R(2021)

ITF finals

Legend
W25 tournaments
W15 tournaments

Singles: 1 (runner-up)

Result	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	Nov 2021	ITF Monastir, Tunisia	W15	Hard	Rebeka Stolmár	4–6, 7–5, 4–6

Doubles: 7 (4 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Loss	0–1	Jul 2021	ITF Almada, Portugal	W15	Hard	Lucie Nguyen Tan	Ingrid Martins Olga Parres Azcoitia	6–4, 3–6, [8–10]
Win	1–1	Jul 2021	ITF Amarante, Portugal	W15	Hard	Lucie Nguyen Tan	Priska Madelyn Nugroho Federica Rossi	6–4, 6–2
Win	2–1	Mar 2022	ITF Amiens, France	W15+H	Clay (i)	Lucie Nguyen Tan	Tatiana Pieri Federica Rossi	6–3, 6–4
Win	3–1	May 2022	ITF Cairo, Egypt	W25	Clay	Weronika Falkowska	Caijsa Hennemann Mariia Tkacheva	6–4, 6–1
Loss	3–2	May 2022	ITF Cairo, Egypt	W15	Clay	Noa Liauw a Fong	Melanie Klaffner Anastasia Zolotareva	1–6, 5–7
Loss	3–3	Nov 2022	ITF Monastir, Tunisia	W15	Hard	Manon Léonard	Eleni Kordolaimi Merna Refaat	3–6, 6–0, [8–10]
Win	4–3	Nov 2022	ITF Lousada, Portugal	W15	Hard (i)	Leonie Küng	Celia Cerviño Ruiz Tess Sugnaux	7–6⁽³⁾, 5–7, [10–2]