France’s Marie Stephan has the great statistic of winning her first event on Tour, doing so at the Montreal Open in 2015. Since then, she has gone on to breach the top 50 in the World Rankings.

Following that victory on Canadian soil, she then made the last eight of both the Richmond Open and the Malaysian Tour Squash III later that year, but had to wait until 2019 before she graced another final.

After making the last eight of the Slaight Music Granite Open and the Richmond Open, the Frenchwoman finished runner-up at the Bourbon Trail Event No.4. She followed that with a semi-final appearance at the Growthpoint S.A. Open.

Further last eight results came through the end of 2020 and into 2021, including a semi-final appearance at the PSA Squash95 Paris. Stephan made the final of the Le Havre PSA Challenger in early 2021, losing out to Melissa Alves in the final.

She followed that with three straight semi-final results, at the Swiss Open, Open des Bretzels and Codep94 Val de Marne International, before then making her PSA World Championships debut in Chicago. She also featured in the Allam British Open, with those two events being her first taste of major tournament action.

Stephan ended 2021 with three more runners-up finishes, making the final of the GWC Squash House Challenger 5, CAS - Serena Hotels / Combaxx International Squash Championships and the Spanish Rocafort Open, along with making it into the semi-finals of both the Czech Open and Sportwerk Women’s Open.

Stephan then reached the quarter finals of both the Calgary CFO Consulting Services Women’s Squash Week and the Karachi Open Squash Championships to kick off 2022, before then also making it to the last eight of the RMCLUB Women’s Open to end the season.

The Frenchwoman made the last 16 of the Open de France de Squash and the Oracle NetSuite Open to start the 2022-2023 season. She made two more semi-finals over the campaign, doing so at the Monte Carlo Classic and the Expression Networks Women’s BVAC Open.

She also made the second round of a major for the first time, and that came at the PSA World Championships. The season also saw Stephan break into the world’s top 50 for the first time in her career.