Maja Chwalinska becomes first qualifier to reach Roland Garros final

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Qualifier Maja Chwalinska beat Diana Shnaider 7-6(4), 6-4 to reach the 2026 Roland Garros women's singles final against Mirra Andreeva. The world No.114 is the first qualifier to reach a Roland Garros final and only the third woman in the Open Era to reach the Paris final in her debut main-draw appearance, after Evonne Goolagong in 1971 and Chris Evert in 1973. Chwalinska entered the tournament with roughly $864,030 in career prize money and will collect about $1,624,000 from her run to the final. The final matches qualifier Maja Chwalinska against world No.8 Mirra Andreeva, a first-time pairing with a Grand Slam title on the line.

The Tennis Letter

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Maja Chwalinska has earned more prize money at this year’s Roland Garros than she’s earned in her entire career. Her total career earnings before Roland Garros: $864,030. What she’s earned at this tournament: $870,000. 🇵🇱❤️

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The New York Times

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Breaking News from @theathletic.com: Polish qualifier Maja Chwalinska shocked Diana Shnaider of Russia, becoming the lowest-ranked player to reach the French Open final in at least 40 years. nyti.ms/4fYnovl

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Tennis Updates

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Emma Raducanu has company, Maja Chwalinska has become the 2nd ever player to make a Grand Slam Final as a Qualifer and 1st at Roland Garros. Wins 7⁷-6⁴, 6-4 vs Diana Shnaider and will be #21 at worst when the rankings come out on Monday after entering RG outside the Top 100.

574h ago

Rodrigo Ribeiro2

Go Maja! What an amazing story.

Notes from Poland

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Poland's Maja Chwalińska has continued her incredible run at the French Open, beating Russia's Anna Kalinskaya in the quarterfinal. It is only the second time in the Open Era that a qualifier has reached the semifinal at Roland Garros.

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Neil

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Maja Chwalinska, qualifier, hotel squatter, tennis magician, is going to the Roland Garros final. I'm too old to get emotional over sports, but, geez ... 🥹

544h ago

Neil7

What a brilliant match. I'm gonna watch that one over and over. Maja pulled out all the spells in her wizard book, changing depth, height, spins, and direction to completely flummox Diana Shnaider, who, it should be said, was extremely gracious in defeat. Old-school thinking-person's tennis. Brava!

Net Positive4

Fuckn artist. I love her.

Randy3

Old and bawling here. I love tennis and I love to see a player have a life-changing experience. Go Maja! 😭

wta

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What a moment 🤩 Maja Chwalinska is a Roland-Garros SEMIFINALIST! #RolandGarros

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Courtney Nguyen

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Maja Chwalinska is a set and a break in the Roland Garros semifinal. Before this tournament, she had never broken the Top 100. Openly talked about the her bout with depression. This is wild. She’s playing so so so well.

545h ago

Tick Tock Tennis

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Maja Chwalinska reaches the semifinals at Roland-Garros as a qualifier, rocketing from #114 to #30 in the live rankings. But, without a wildcard, she'll have to go through qualifying at Wimbledon. #WCforMaja

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Whitney McIntosh

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Maja Chwalinska career earnings before this French Open: $864,030 Maja Chwalinska earnings from this French Open: $1,624,000

184h ago

Thierry

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What a dream! Chwalińska will play in the RG final on Saturday after having to qualify for the main draw! In the last 3 weeks, the 24-year-old has already won twice as much in prize money as she had in her entire career, and she’ll be seeded at Slams for the foreseeable future. Life-changing!

Maja Chwalińska lies on the red clay of Philippe Chatrier at Roland-Garros, her hands covering her face, her racquet next to her.

274h ago

Chip & Charge

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Maja Chwalinska im Finale der #FrenchOpen. Ein Wahnsinn. Sie besiegt Diana Shnaider völlig verdient in 2 Sätzen. Die polnischen Fans kamen für Swiatek, sie bekamen Chwalinska. Und die französischen Fans haben sie adoptiert.

214h ago

Colette Lewis

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Roland Garros women's finalist Maja Chwalinska reached quarterfinals of 2016 Orange Bowl as a 15-year-old, losing to Carson Branstine. Marta Kostyuk and top seed Anastasia Potapova were also in qtrs that year(Kaja Juvan d. Potapova in final). Chwalinska's C-H junior ranking was 44, in Jan 2017 #tbt

103h ago

TVP World

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Poland's Maja Chwalińska reached the French Open final after defeating Diana Shnaider 7–6, 6–4 at Roland Garros. Chwalińska has continued her impressive run through the tournament with a composed performance against the Russian player.