Maja Chwalińska

Maja Chwalińska (Polish pronunciation: [ˈmaja xfaˈliɲska, -lij̃ska]; born 11 October 2001) is a Polish tennis player. 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]

Maja Chwalińska
Country (sports) Poland
ResidenceDąbrowa Górnicza, Poland
Born (2001-10-11) 11 October 2001
Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland
Height1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
PlaysLeft-handed (two-handed backhand)
CoachPaweł Kałuża
Prize moneyUS$ 63,614
Singles
Career record96–41 (70.1%)
Career titles0
3 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 192 (12 August 2019)
Current rankingNo. 226 (16 March 2020)
Grand Slam Singles results
Australian OpenQ1 (2020)
French Open JuniorQ1 (2017)
Wimbledon Junior3R (2017)
US Open Junior1R (2017)
Doubles
Career record34–16 (68.0%)
Career titles0
5 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 264 (12 August 2019)
Current rankingNo. 409 (16 March 2020)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open JuniorF (2017)
French Open Junior1R (2017)
Wimbledon Junior1R (2017)
US Open JuniorQF (2017)
Team competitions
Fed Cup2–1 (Doubles 2–1)
Last updated on: 3 May 2020.

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

She won her first senior singles title when successful in the ITF tournament in Bytom in July 2019, having already won four doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit to that time.

Tennis 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 quarter-final 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 Denmark's 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.

Chwalińska's 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 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 coronavirus 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 semi-final.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 4 (3 titles, 1 runner-up)
Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$80,000 tournaments
$60,000 tournaments (1–0)
$25,000 tournaments (2–0)
$15,000 tournaments (0–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (0–1)
Clay (3–0)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Loss 0–1 Feb 2017 ITF Wirral, Great Britain 15,000 Hard (i) Maia Lumsden 4–6, 1–6
Win 1–1 Jul 2019 ITF Bytom, Poland 25,000 Clay Nina Potočnik 6–3, 6–4
Win 2–1 Aug 2019 ITF Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland 25,000 Clay Dejana Radanović 7–6(7–5), 6–4
Win 3–1 Aug 2019 ITF Warsaw, Poland 60,000 Clay Anastasiya Komardina 6–3, 6–0

Doubles: 8 (5 titles, 3 runners-up)
Legend
$100,000 tournaments
$80,000 tournaments
$60,000 tournaments (1–1)
$25,000 tournaments (3–1)
$15,000 tournaments (1–0)
$10,000 tournaments (0–1)
Finals by surface
Hard (2–2)
Clay (3–1)
Grass (0–0)
Carpet (0–0)
Outcome No. Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents Score
Runner-up 1. 23 September 2016 Brno, Czech Republic Clay Paulina Czarnik Aneta Kladivová
Aneta Laboutková		 6–7(5–7), 6–3, [10–12]
Winner 1. 17 February 2017 Wirral, Great Britain Hard (i) Miyabi Inoue Emina Bektas
Ronit Yurovsky		 6–4, 6–4
Winner 2. 30 June 2018 Toruń, Poland Clay Katarzyna Kawa Albina Khabibulina
Hélène Scholsen		 6–1, 6–4
Winner 3. 11 August 2018 Warsaw, Poland Clay (i) * Daria Kuczer Martyna Kubka
Stefania Rogozińska Dzik		 3–6, 7–6(7–5), [10–1]
Runner-up 2. 3 November 2018 Toronto, Canada Hard (i) Elitsa Kostova Sharon Fichman
Maria Sanchez		 0–6, 4–6
Runner-up 3. 16 February 2019 Trnava, Slovakia Hard (i) Miriam Kolodziejová Laura-Ioana Andrei
Anastasia Zarycká		 4–6, 3–6
Winner 4. 13 April 2019 Sunderland, Great Britain Hard (i) Ulrikke Eikeri Emina Bektas
Tara Moore		 6–4, 3–6, [11–9]
Winner 5. 10 August 2019 Warsaw, Poland Clay Ulrikke Eikeri Weronika Falkowska
Martyna Kubka		 6–4, 6–1
  • 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.

Fed Cup participation

Doubles
Edition Stage Date Location Surface Partner Against Opponents W/L Score
2019 Fed Cup
Europe/Africa Zone Group I		 R/R 8 February 2019 Zielona Góra,
Poland		 Hard (i) Alicja Rosolska Denmark Maria Jespersen
Hannah Viller Møller		 W 6–0, 6–3
2020 Fed Cup
Europe/Africa Zone Group I		 R/R 6 February 2020 Esch-sur-Alzette,
Luxembourg		 Slovenia Kaja Juvan
Pia Lovrič		 L 5–7, 0–6
7 February 2020 Magdalena Fręch Turkey Ayla Aksu
İpek Öz		 W 6–3, 6–4

Junior Grand Slam finals

Girls' doubles: 1 (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(4–7)

ITF junior results

Singles: 2 (2 titles)
Legend (Win–Loss)
Category GA (0–0)
Category G1 (0–0)
Category G2 (0–0)
Category G3 (0–0)
Category G4 (2–0)
Category G5 (0–0)
Outcome Date Location Surface Opponent Score
Winner 7 February 2016 Szczecin, Poland Hard (i) Weronika Falkowska 6–2, 6–3
Winner 14 February 2016 Hamburg, Germany Hard (i) Shaline-Doreen Pipa 6–0, 7–6(7–0)

Doubles: 8 (1 title, 6 runners-up)
Legend (Win–Loss)
Category GA (0–0)
Category G1 (1–1)
Category G2 (0–4)
Category G3 (0–0)
Category G4 (0–1)
Category G5 (0–0)
Outcome Date Location Surface Partner Opponents Score
Runner-up 6 February 2016 Szczecin, Poland Hard (i) Wiktoria Rutkowska Klara Siłka
Weronika Falkowska		 6–1, 3–6, [2–10]
Runner-up 27 February 2016 Šiauliai, Lithuania Hard (i) Anna Laguza Deniza Marcinkēviča
Katyarina Paulenka		 3–6, 2–6
Runner-up 13 May 2016 Mödling, Austria Clay Daria Kuczer Olga Danilović
Johana Marková		 6–4, 6–7(2–7), [5–10]
Runner-up 27 May 2016 Marcinelle, Belgium Clay Eléonora Molinaro Cho I-hsuan
Yuki Naito		 2–6, 7–5, [5–10]
Runner-up 26 August 2016 Budaörs, Hungary Clay Mihaela Lorena Marculescu Eva Alexandrova
Maryna Chernyshova		 3–6, 5–7
Runner-up 10 September 2016 Prague, Czech Republic Clay Ania Hertel Denisa Hunkova
Kristyna Lavicková		 6–2, 3–6, [6–10]
Winner 19 January 2017 Traralgon, Australia Hard Iga Świątek Gabriella Da Silva Fick
Kaitlin Staines		 3–6, 6–4, [10–7]

Other finals

Team competition: 1 (1 title)
Outcome Date Team competition Surface Partner/Team Opponents Score
Winner 2 October 2016 Junior Fed Cup,
Budapest		 Clay Iga Świątek
Stefania Rogozińska-Dzik		 Amanda Anisimova
Claire Liu
Caty McNally		 2–1

Head-to-head vs. top 100 ranked players
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References
  1. "Tennis Europe - Maja Chwalinska profile".
  2. "Poland defeats USA to take Junior Fed Cup title".
  3. "Skatov & Chwalinska win European 16&U Championships".
  4. "Maja Chwalinska Tweener Netcord Winner".
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