Magdalena Fręch (; born 15 December 1997) is a Polish tennis player. On 18 September 2023, she reached her best singles WTA ranking of world No. 66. On 8 August 2022, she peaked at No. 174 in the doubles rankings. She won one singles title on the WTA Challenger Tour. She has also won five singles and four doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
Playing for the Poland Billie Jean King Cup team, Fręch has a win–loss record of 9–6, as of September 2023.
Professional career
2013: WTA Tour debut
Fręch made her WTA Tour debut at the Katowice Open in doubles, partnering Katarzyna Pyka.
2018: Grand Slam debut
Fręch started 2018 season in Auckland where she lost in qualifying (in the first round) to Sachia Vickery, in straight sets. She then took part at the first Grand Slam qualifying in her career - at the Australian Open. She beat Miyu Kato, Sofya Zhuk and Kayla Day, and became one of the 12 qualifiers, making her main-draw debut at the Grand Slam championship. In the first round, she lost to eventual quarterfinalist Carla Suárez Navarro, in straight sets. At the end of January, Fręch played at the $60k Andrézieux-Bouthéon event where she defeated Conny Perrin in three sets, Chloé Paquet in two and Vitalia Diatchenko (6–3, 2–2 ret.). In the semifinals, she lost to eventual champion Georgina García Pérez, in three sets. In February, she started at the Hungarian Open where she came through the qualifying competition by defeating Çağla Büyükakçay in three, and Anna Blinkova in straight sets.
2021: WTA 1000 & top 100 debuts
She made her top 100 debut at No. 99 on 18 October 2021 following her qualification at the Indian Wells Open and first round win over Zheng Saisai. She lost to top seed Karolina Pliskova.
2022: Major third round
In 2022, she qualified again for the Indian Wells Open into the main draw entering as a lucky loser and won against Mayar Sherif before losing to 30th seed Marketa Vondrousova.
She reached the third of a Major for the first time in her career at Wimbledon in singles and in doubles.
2023: WTA 1000 third round
In 2023, she again entered the Indian Wells Open as a lucky loser for a second consecutive year, and won her third match at this tournament defeating Maryna Zanevska before losing to fourth seed Ons Jabeur. At the Miami Open, she entered directly into the second round of the main draw, again as a lucky loser, after the late withdrawal of 26th seed Zhang Shuai. She defeated wildcard player Erika Andreeva to reach the third round at a WTA 1000-level for the first time in her career. She qualified for her next WTA 1000, the China Open, on her debut.
National representation
In 2016, Fręch made her debut in the Fed Cup, playing for Poland. Her first match was in a World Group II play-off where Poland played against the team of Chinese Taipei. Frech was chosen to play her first match against Lee Ya-hsuan, in which she also made her first Fed Cup win. In the next match, Frech lost against Hsu Ching-wen.
In 2018, from 7 to 10 February, she played at Fed Cup in Tallinn where she lost to Melanie Klaffner (Austria) in straight sets, Anastasija Sevastova (Latvia) in straight sets, and she defeated Ayla Aksu (Turkey) and Isabella Shinikova (Bulgaria) - both in straight sets.
Performance timelines
Only main-draw results in WTA Tour, Grand Slam tournaments, Billie Jean King Cup, United Cup, Hopman Cup and Olympic Games are included in win–loss records.
Singles
Current through the 2023 Jasmin Open.
Doubles
Current through the 2023 Wimbledon Championships.
WTA Challenger finals
Singles: 1 (title)
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 9 (6 titles, 3 runner–ups)
Doubles: 8 (4 titles, 4 runner–ups)
Record against other players
Record against top 10 players
She has a 0–9 () record against players who were, at the time the match was played, ranked in the top 10.