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Maja Chwalińska
Polish tennis player (born 2001) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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. 121, achieved on 31 March 2025, and a best doubles ranking of No. 91, achieved on 9 June 2025. 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.
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Junior years
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]
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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". This became an internet sensation. 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 defeated in the second round.
A few weeks later she won her second doubles title, in Toruń. 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[4] and had to return home after quarantining without playing a match.
2022: WTA Tour, major 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.[5][6] She won her first major match defeating Kateřina Siniaková in the first round.[7][8]
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.[9] The following week she won her maiden WTA 125 singles title at the Florianópolis Open in Brazil, overcoming Ylena In-Albon in the final in straight sets.[10][11] Alongside Laura Pigossi, she also won the doubles title at the same tournament, defeating Nicole Fossa Huergo and Valeriya Strakhova in the final.[10] On 9 December, Chwalińska reached a new career-high WTA singles ranking of world No. 128.[12]
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Grand Slam performance timelines
| 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 2025 US Open.
WTA Challenger finals
Singles: 2 (2 titles)
Doubles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)
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ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 11 (7 titles, 4 runner-ups)
Doubles: 21 (11 titles, 10 runner-ups)
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Team competition
Fed Cup/Billie Jean King Cup
Doubles (2–1)
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Junior finals
Grand Slam tournaments
Girls' doubles: 1 (runner–up)
ITF Junior Circuit
Singles: 2 (2 titles)
Doubles: 7 (1 title, 6 runner-ups)
Other junior finals
Fed Cup
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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.[13]
| 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 |
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Notes
- 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
External links
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