Greatest comeback in a Grand Slam tennis match (female)
- Who
- Lisa Raymond
- What
- first total number
- Where
- France (Paris)
- When
- 24 May 2004
At the 2004 French Open, 28th seed Lisa Raymond (USA) defeated Slovakia’s Lubomíra Kurhajcová 0-6, 7-5, 6-3 after coming back from 0-6, 0-5, 30-all. Raymond saved two match points at 1-5 down in the second set of the first-round match, staged at Stade Roland Garros in Paris, France, on 24 May.
Raymond’s great escape came four months after she matched her best run at a Grand Slam by reaching the quarter-finals at the 2004 Australian Open. (She also made the quarters at Wimbledon in 2000.)
“I thought I had eight lives left, and I guess I didn’t,” said Raymond after crashing out 6-4, 6-0 to Spain’s Arantxa Parra Santonja in the second round on 26 May.