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Maja Chwalińska

Maja Chwalińska
Chwalińska at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships
Country (sports) Poland
ResidenceDąbrowa Górnicza, Poland
Born (2001-10-11) 11 October 2001 (age 23)
Dąbrowa Górnicza
Height1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
PlaysLeft (two-handed backhand)
CoachJaroslav Machovsky
Prize moneyUS$487,814
Singles
Career record219–109
Career titles1 WTA 125
Highest rankingNo. 128 (9 December 2024)
Current rankingNo. 128 (16 December 2024)
Grand Slam singles results
Australian OpenQ1 (2020, 2021)
French OpenQ2 (2023)
Wimbledon2R (2022)
US OpenQ2 (2022)
Doubles
Career record100–44
Career titles2 WTA 125
Highest rankingNo. 126 (9 December 2024)
Current rankingNo. 126 (16 December 2024)
Team competitions
Fed Cup3–1
Last updated on: 16 December 2024.

Maja Chwalińska (Polish pronunciation: [ˈmaja xfaˈliɲska, -lij̃ska]; born 11 October 2001) is a Polish tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of world No. 128, achieved on 9 December 2024, and a best doubles ranking of world No. 126, reached on 9 December 2024. She won her first senior singles title at a ITF Circuit tournament in Bytom in July 2019, having already won four ITF doubles titles up to that point.

Junior career

Grand Slam performance - Singles:

  • Australian Open: 1R (2017)
  • French Open: Q1 (2017)
  • Wimbledon: 3R (2017)
  • US Open: 1R (2017)

Grand Slam performance - Doubles:

  • Australian Open: F (2017)
  • French Open: 1R (2017)
  • Wimbledon: 1R (2017)
  • US Open: QF (2017)

She won the European 14-and-under doubles title in 2015, and the 16-and-under doubles title in 2016.[1] She was a member of the Polish team which won the Junior Fed Cup title in 2016,[2] and made the final of the 2017 Australian Open junior doubles before completing a trio of European junior titles by winning the 16-and-under singles title six months later.[3]

Her highest junior Tennis Europe ranking was No. 6 in August 2017, having reached No. 5 in the under-14 rankings in April 2015.[1]

Professional career

2018

Chwalińska's profile received a boost in May when she played in the ITF tournament in Trnava, Slovakia. In her final round qualifying match against Irina Falconi, she produced an amazing "tweener" shot which clipped the top of the net and dropped into Falconi's side of the court for a winner which became an internet sensation.[4] Chwalińska went on to beat Falconi, and then the pair of them became part of a very unusual club when they met again in the first round proper. Chwalińska was originally drawn to meet Carol Zhao, who withdrew through injury and was replaced by Falconi as a lucky loser. In the rematch Chwalińska won again, but was beaten in the second round by Verónica Cepede Royg, a player ranked more than 500 places higher, and who went on to be the tournament runner-up.

A few weeks later she won her second doubles title, in Toruń, Poland, alongside Katarzyna Kawa, who had beaten her in a singles quarterfinal the day before, and her doubles ranking jumped to a career-high 510. She followed that by finishing runner-up in the singles at the European Junior Championship to Clara Tauson, and was a losing semifinalist in the doubles with Weronika Falkowska. In Warsaw, she reached the semifinals of the singles, going down in a marathon three hours and 15 minutes three-set match to Victoria Bosio, and won the doubles with Daria Kuczer, racing away to take the match tie-break 10–1, after losing the first set.

2019

Poland hosted the Europe/Africa I Fed Cup pool at Zielona Góra in February. Chwalińska represented her country at senior level for the first time in the tie against Denmark, where she partnered Alicja Rosolska in the doubles. They beat Maria Jespersen and Hannah Viller Møller, 6–0, 6–3.

She reached the doubles final of the ITF event in Trnava the following week, and the singles semifinals in Altenkirchen a week after that. Moving on to England, she and Ulrikke Eikeri won the doubles title at the ITF tournament in Sunderland, coming from match points down to win the match tie-break 11–9, Chwalińska finishing with an amazing backhand down the line from well outside the court.

Her first singles title followed in July, appropriately enough on home soil in Bytom, where she beat Nina Potočnik in the final. A week later, she made it two singles titles in a row on the Polish swing of the circuit, the runner-up this time being Dejana Radanović, and a week after that she successfully defended her doubles title in Warsaw, the differences from the previous year being that the tournament had now been upgraded to a $60k event and that Eikeri was her partner this time. Her partner from the previous year, Daria Kuczer, was half of the team they defeated in the first round. The following day saw a dream result as she defeated Anastasiya Komardina in the singles final to complete a treble of titles in consecutive weeks.

Her last two tournaments for the year were in Székesfehérvár, but she lost to Irina Bara in the first round both times. She also lost in the first round of doubles in both weeks.

2020

Chwalińska started the new season by travelling to Australia for the first time since 2017, making her senior Grand Slam debut in the Australian Open, where she lost in the first round of qualifying to Isabella Shinikova. At the Fed Cup Group I tournament in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, Chwalińska, again partnered Alicja Rosolska in the doubles, this time against Slovenia. Rosolska picked up a slight injury during the match, hampering her enough to ruin their chance of victory. Chwalińska paired with Magdalena Fręch in the following day's win over Turkey. Her only subsequent tournament before the COVID-19 pandemic halted international tennis was at Altenkirchen, where she had to withdraw through injury during her second round singles match. That meant, she and Linda Fruhvirtová had to default their doubles semifinal.

Chwalińska returned to tournament play in August, at the Prague Open which had been upgraded to replace the cancelled US Open qualifying competition. She had easy wins in the first two rounds, but injured her wrist in her third-round loss to Clara Tauson. She resumed by winning a Polish inter-club tournament at the beginning of December, and followed that with an ITF tournament in Selva Gardena. Beaten in the first round of singles by Lea Bošković, she and Linda Fruhvirtová made it to the doubles final, where they lost to Italian 17 year olds Matilde Paoletti and Lisa Pigato, the latter being the French Open junior doubles champion.

2021

Chwalińska again found Clara Tauson to be a stumbling block when she played her first tournament of the year in Fujairah, losing to the Dane in the quarterfinals. She lost to Yuan Yue in the first round of qualifying for the Australian Open in Dubai before reaching the semifinals of a $25k tournament in Grenoble, but aggravated her wrist injury in Altenkirchen the following week and had to withdraw after winning her first match.

She then went to Argentina for a series of $25k tournaments, but contracted COVID-19[5] and had to return home after quarantining without playing a match.

2022: WTA Tour, Grand Slam debuts and first win

She qualified for her first major at the 2022 Wimbledon Championships defeating No. 2 seed CoCo Vandeweghe in the final round of qualifying.[6][7] She won her first major match defeating Kateřina Siniaková in the first round.[8][9]

2024: First WTA 125 singles and doubles titles

Partnering Katarzyna Kawa, Chwalińska won her first WTA 125 doubles title at the Argentina Open, defeating Laura Pigossi and Mayar Sherif in the final which went to a deciding champions tiebreak.[10] The following week she won her maiden WTA 125 singles title at the MundoTenis Open in Brazil, overcoming Ylena In-Albon in the final in straight sets.[11][12] Alongside Laura Pigossi, she also won the doubles title at the same tournament, defeating Nicole Fossa Huergo and Valeriya Strakhova in the final.[11] On 9 December, Chwalińska reached a new career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 128.[13]

Grand Slam performance timelines

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# P# DNQ A Z# PO G S B NMS NTI P NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

Singles

Current through the 2023 French Open qualifying.

Tournament 2020 2021 2022 2023 SR W–L Win %
Australian Open Q1 Q1 A A 0 / 0 0–0  – 
French Open A Q1 A Q2 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Wimbledon NH Q1 2R Q1 0 / 1 1–1 50%
US Open A A Q2 0 / 0 0–0  – 
Win–loss 0–0 0–0 1–1 0 / 1 1–1 50%

WTA Challenger finals

Singles: 1 (1 title)

Result W–L    Date    Tournament Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Nov 2024 MundoTenis Open, Brazi Clay Switzerland Ylena In-Albon 6–1, 6–2

Doubles: 2 (2 titles)

Result W–L    Date    Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Win 1–0 Nov 2024 Argentine Open, Argentina Clay Poland Katarzyna Kawa Brazil Laura Pigossi
Egypt Mayar Sherif
6-4, 3-6, [10–7]
Win 2–0 Dec 2024 MundoTenis Open, Brazil Clay Brazil Laura Pigossi Italy Nicole Fossa Huergo
Ukraine Valeriya Strakhova
7-6(7–3), 6-3

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 11 (7 titles, 4 runner-ups)

Legend
W60/75 tournaments (4–2)
W25 tournaments (3–1)
W15 tournaments (0–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (2–3)
Clay (5–1)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Feb 2017 ITF Birkenhead, UK W15 Hard (i) United Kingdom Maia Lumsden 4–6, 1–6
Win 1–1 Jul 2019 ITF Bytom, Poland W25 Clay Slovenia Nina Potočnik 6–3, 6–4
Win 2–1 Aug 2019 ITF Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland W25 Clay Serbia Dejana Radanović 7–6(5), 6–4
Win 3–1 Aug 2019 ITF Warsaw Open, Poland W60 Clay Russia Anastasiya Komardina 6–3, 6–0
Win 4–1 Jan 2022 ITF Monastir, Tunisia W25 Hard France Carole Monnet 6–4, 6–4
Loss 4–2 Feb 2022 Porto Indoor 2, Portugal W25 Hard (i) Austria Julia Grabher 3–6, 7–6(2), 5–7
Win 5–2 May 2022 ITF Prague Open, Czech Republic W60 Clay Georgia (country) Ekaterine Gorgodze 7–5, 6–3
Loss 5–3 Jan 2024 Porto Indoor, Portugal W75+H Hard (i) Spain Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro 6–3, 0–6, 4–6
Loss 5–4 May 2024 ITF Prague Open, Czech Republic W75 Clay Czech Republic Dominika Salkova 3–6, 0–6
Win 6–4 Jul 2024 Open International Féminin de Montpellier W75 Clay Oksana Selekhmeteva 6–3, 6–2
Win 7–4 July 2024 Porto Open, Portugal W75 Hard France Tessah Andrianjafitrimo 7–5, 6–1

Doubles: 20 (10 titles, 10 runner-ups)

Legend
W100 tournaments (0–1)
W60/75 tournaments (5–1)
W40/50 tournaments (0–1)
W25/35 tournaments (4–6)
W10/15 tournaments (1–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (2–8)
Clay (6–1)
Grass (0–1)
Carpet (2–0)
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Sep 2016 ITF Brno, Czech Republic W10 Clay Poland Paulina Czarnik Czech Republic Aneta Kladivová
Czech Republic Aneta Laboutková
6–7(5), 6–3, [10–12]
Win 1–1 Feb 2017 ITF Birkenhead, UK W15 Hard (i) Japan Miyabi Inoue United States Emina Bektas
United States Ronit Yurovsky
6–4, 6–4
Win 2–1 Jun 2018 Bella Cup Torun, Poland W25 Clay Poland Katarzyna Kawa Uzbekistan Albina Khabibulina
Belgium Hélène Scholsen
6–1, 6–4
Win 3–1 Aug 2018 ITF Warsaw Open, Poland W25 Clay (i)[a] Poland Daria Kuczer Poland Martyna Kubka
Poland Stefania Rogozińska Dzik
3–6, 7–6(5), [10–1]
Loss 3–2 Nov 2018 Toronto Challenger, Canada W60 Hard (i) Bulgaria Elitsa Kostova Canada Sharon Fichman
United States Maria Sanchez
0–6, 4–6
Loss 3–3 Feb 2019 Trnava Indoor, Slovakia W25 Hard (i) Czech Republic Miriam Kolodziejová Romania Laura-Ioana Andrei
Czech Republic Anastasia Zarycká
4–6, 3–6
Win 4–3 Apr 2019 ITF Sunderland, UK W25 Hard (i) Norway Ulrikke Eikeri United States Emina Bektas
United Kingdom Tara Moore
6–4, 3–6, [11–9]
Win 5–3 Aug 2019 ITF Warsaw Open, Poland (2) W60 Clay Norway Ulrikke Eikeri Poland Weronika Falkowska
Poland Martyna Kubka
6–4, 6–1
Loss 5–4 Dec 2020 ITF Selva Gardena, Italy W25 Hard (i) Czech Republic Linda Fruhvirtová Italy Matilde Paoletti
Italy Lisa Pigato
5–7, 1–6
Loss 5–5 Oct 2021 ITF Istanbul, Turkey W25 Hard (i) Czech Republic Miriam Kolodziejová Netherlands Jasmijn Gimbrère
Netherlands Bibiane Schoofs
2–6, 4–6
Loss 5–6 Nov 2021 ITF Haabneeme, Estonia W25 Hard (i) Hungary Adrienn Nagy United States Jessica Failla
Japan Chihiro Muramatsu
3–6, 4–6
Loss 5–7 Nov 2021 ITF Milovice, Czech Republic W25 Hard (i) Czech Republic Linda Nosková Japan Sakura Hosogi
Japan Misaki Matsuda
6–3, 2–6, [8–10]
Win 6–7 Dec 2021 ITF Jablonec nad Nisou,
Czech Republic
W25 Carpet (i) Canada Katherine Sebov Czech Republic Lucie Havlíčková
Czech Republic Linda Klimovičová
7–5, 6–4
Win 7–7 Apr 2022 Edge Istanbul, Turkey W60 Clay Czech Republic Jesika Malečková Anastasia Tikhonova
Turkey Berfu Cengiz
2–6, 6–4, [10–7]
Win 8–7 May 2023 ITF Prague Open,
Czech Republic
W60 Clay Czech Republic Jesika Malečková Czech Republic Aneta Kučmová
Australia Kaylah McPhee
6–0, 7–6(5)
Loss 8–8 Jun 2023 Ilkley Trophy, UK W100 Grass Czech Republic Jesika Malečková Serbia Natalija Stevanović
Japan Nao Hibino
6–7(10), 6–7(5)
Loss 8–9 Dec 2023 ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt W25 Hard Poland Gina Feistel Victoria Mikhaylova
Mariia Tkacheva
4–6, 6–3, [11–13]
Loss 8–10 Jan 2024 ITF Nonthaburi, Thailand W50 Hard Japan Yuki Naito Czech Republic Anna Sisková
Ksenia Zaytseva
5–7, 6–7(3)
Win 9–10 Feb 2024 AK Ladies Open, Germany W75 Carpet (i) Czech Republic Jesika Malečková Germany Julia Lohoff
Switzerland Conny Perrin
6–4, 7–5
Win 10–10 Jun 2024 Macha Lake Open, Czech Republic W75 Clay Czech Republic Anastasia Dețiuc China Feng Shuo
Greece Sapfo Sakellaridi
6–3, 2–6, [10–6]

Team competition

Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup

Doubles (2–1)

Edition Stage Date Location Surface Partner Against Opponents W/L Score
2019 ZG1 R/R Feb 2019 Zielona Góra (POL) Hard (i) Alicja Rosolska Denmark Denmark Maria Jespersen
Hannah Viller Møller
W 6–0, 6–3
2020–21 ZG1 R/R Feb 2020 Esch-sur-Alzette (LUX) Slovenia Slovenia Kaja Juvan
Pia Lovrič
L 5–7, 0–6
Magdalena Fręch Turkey Turkey Ayla Aksu
İpek Öz
W 6–3, 6–4

Junior career finals

Grand Slam tournaments

Girls' doubles: 1 (runner–up)

Result Year Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 2017 Australian Open Hard Poland Iga Świątek Canada Bianca Andreescu
United States Carson Branstine
1–6, 6–7(4)

ITF Junior Circuit

Legend
Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5

Singles: 2 (2 titles)

Result W–L Date Location Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Feb 2016 ITF Szczecin, Poland G4 Hard (i) Poland Weronika Falkowska 6–2, 6–3
Win 2–0 Feb 2016 ITF Hamburg, Germany G4 Hard (i) Germany Shaline-Doreen Pipa 6–0, 7–6(0)

Doubles: 7 (1 title, 6 runner-ups)

Result W–L Date Location Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Feb 2016 ITF Szczecin, Poland G4 Hard (i) Poland Wiktoria Rutkowska Poland Klara Siłka
Poland Weronika Falkowska
6–1, 3–6, [2–10]
Loss 0–2 Feb 2016 ITF Šiauliai, Lithuania G2 Hard (i) Ukraine Anna Laguza Latvia Deniza Marcinkēviča
Belarus Katyarina Paulenka
3–6, 2–6
Loss 0–3 May 2016 ITF Mödling, Austria G2 Clay Poland Daria Kuczer Serbia Olga Danilović
Czech Republic Johana Marková
6–4, 6–7(2), [5–10]
Loss 0–4 May 2016 ITF Marcinelle, Belgium G1 Clay Luxembourg Eléonora Molinaro Chinese Taipei Cho I-hsuan
Japan Yuki Naito
2–6, 7–5, [5–10]
Loss 0–5 Aug 2016 ITF Budaörs, Hungary G2 Clay Romania Mihaela Lorena Marculescu Belarus Eva Alexandrova
Ukraine Maryna Chernyshova
3–6, 5–7
Loss 0–6 Sep 2016 ITF Prague, Czech Republic G2 Clay Poland Ania Hertel Czech Republic Denisa Hunkova
Czech Republic Kristyna Lavicková
6–2, 3–6, [6–10]
Win 1–6 Jan 2017 ITF Traralgon, Australia G1 Hard Poland Iga Świątek Australia Gabriella Da Silva-Fick
Australia Kaitlin Staines
3–6, 6–4, [10–7]

Other junior finals

Fed Cup

Result Date Team competition Surface Partner/Team Opponents Score
Win Oct 2016 Junior Fed Cup, Budapest Clay Poland Iga Świątek
Poland Stefania Rogozińska-Dzik
United States Amanda Anisimova
United States Claire Liu
United States Caty McNally
2–1

Head-to-head record

Record against top 10 players

Chwalinska's record against players who have been ranked in the top 10, Active players are in boldface.[14]

Player Record Win% Hard Clay Grass Last match
No. 1 ranked players
Poland Iga Świątek 0–1 0% 0–1 Lost (2–6, 3–6) at 2016 ITF Stockholm (W10)
No. 2 ranked players
Czech Republic Barbora Krejcikova 0–1 0% 0–1 Lost (7–6(7–2), 5–7, 3–6) at 2019 ITF Staré Splavy
No. 5 ranked players
Italy Sara Errani 1–0 100% 1–0 Won (6–3, 6–3) at 2019 ITF Staré Splavy
Slovakia Daniela Hantuchova 0–1 0% 0–1 Lost (0–6, 2–6) at 2016 Katowice (Q)
No. 9 ranked players
United States CoCo Vandeweghe 1–0 100% 1–0 Won (3–6, 6–3, 6–4) at 2022 Wimbledon (Q)
Total 2–3 40% 0–2
(0%)
1–1
(50%)
1-0
(100%)
current through the 2022 Warsaw Open

Notes

  1. ^ This tournament is an outdoor event, but rain on the day caused the singles semifinals and doubles final to be transferred to an indoor court.

References

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  2. ^ "Poland defeats USA to take Junior Fed Cup title". Archived from the original on 14 April 2019.
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  6. ^ "Bjorklund, Contreras Gomez battle through Wimbledon qualifying".
  7. ^ "Wimbledon 2022's Grand Slam debuts: Hontama, Chwalinska, Kartal and more".
  8. ^ "Tennis, WTA – Wimbledon 2022: Chwalinska downs Siniakova". 27 June 2022.
  9. ^ "Welcome to the tour: All of 2022's WTA debutantes". WTA Tennis. October 6, 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  10. ^ "Sherif crowned singles champion at WTA 125 Buenos Aires". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 2 December 2024.
  11. ^ a b "Chwalinska triumphs; Parks defeats Bencic at this week's WTA 125 events". Women's Tennis Association. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
  12. ^ "MundoTenis Open: Chwalinska wins the trophy". Tennis Majors. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
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