Maja Chwalińska

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. 149, achieved on 3 October 2022, and a best doubles ranking of world No. 175, reached on 1 August 2022. 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

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

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, 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]

Grand Slam performance timelines

Singles

Current through the 2023 French Open qualifying.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 8 (5 titles, 3 runner-ups)

Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Feb 2017	ITF Birkenhead, UK	W15	Hard (i)	Maia Lumsden	4–6, 1–6
Win	1–1	Jul 2019	ITF Bytom, Poland	W25	Clay	Nina Potočnik	6–3, 6–4
Win	2–1	Aug 2019	ITF Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland	W25	Clay	Dejana Radanović	7–6(5), 6–4
Win	3–1	Aug 2019	ITF Warsaw Open, Poland	W60	Clay	Anastasiya Komardina	6–3, 6–0
Win	4–1	Jan 2022	ITF Monastir, Tunisia	W25	Hard	Carole Monnet	6–4, 6–4
Loss	4–2	Feb 2022	ITF Porto, Portugal	W25	Hard (i)	Julia Grabher	3–6, 7–6(2), 5–7
Win	5–2	May 2022	ITF Prague Open, Czech Republic	W60	Clay	Ekaterine Gorgodze	7–5, 6–3
Loss	5–3	Jan 2024	Porto Indoor, Portugal	W75+H	Hard (i)	Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro	6–3, 0–6, 4–6

Doubles: 19 (9 titles, 10 runner-ups)

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

Team competition

Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup

Doubles (2–1)

Junior career finals

Grand Slam tournaments

Girls' doubles: 1 (runner–up)

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

ITF Junior Circuit

Singles: 2 (2 titles)

Result	W–L	Date	Location	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Win	1–0	Feb 2016	ITF Szczecin, Poland	G4	Hard (i)	Weronika Falkowska	6–2, 6–3
Win	2–0	Feb 2016	ITF Hamburg, Germany	G4	Hard (i)	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)	Wiktoria Rutkowska	Klara Siłka Weronika Falkowska	6–1, 3–6, [2–10]
Loss	0–2	Feb 2016	ITF Šiauliai, Lithuania	G2	Hard (i)	Anna Laguza	Deniza Marcinkēviča Katyarina Paulenka	3–6, 2–6
Loss	0–3	May 2016	ITF Mödling, Austria	G2	Clay	Daria Kuczer	Olga Danilović Johana Marková	6–4, 6–7(2), [5–10]
Loss	0–4	May 2016	ITF Marcinelle, Belgium	G1	Clay	Eléonora Molinaro	Cho I-hsuan Yuki Naito	2–6, 7–5, [5–10]
Loss	0–5	Aug 2016	ITF Budaörs, Hungary	G2	Clay	Mihaela Lorena Marculescu	Eva Alexandrova Maryna Chernyshova	3–6, 5–7
Loss	0–6	Sep 2016	ITF Prague, Czech Republic	G2	Clay	Ania Hertel	Denisa Hunkova Kristyna Lavicková	6–2, 3–6, [6–10]
Win	1–6	Jan 2017	ITF Traralgon, Australia	G1	Hard	Iga Świątek	Gabriella Da Silva-Fick 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	Iga Świątek Stefania Rogozińska-Dzik	Amanda Anisimova Claire Liu 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.^[10]

Player	Record	Win%	Hard	Clay	Grass	Last match
No. 1 ranked players
Iga Świątek	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (2–6, 3–6) at 2016 ITF Stockholm (W10)
No. 2 ranked players
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
Sara Errani	1–0	100%	–	1–0	–	Won (6–3, 6–3) at 2019 ITF Staré Splavy
Daniela Hantuchova	0–1	0%	0–1	–	–	Lost (0–6, 2–6) at 2016 Katowice (Q)
No. 9 ranked players
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

References

External links

• Maja Chwalińska at the Women's Tennis Association
• Maja Chwalińska at the International Tennis Federation
• Maja Chwalińska at the Billie Jean King Cup