French Open 2026: Kalinskaya v Chwalinska; Sabalenka v Shnaider as quarter-finals continue – live

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Chwalinska looks anything but stressed as she swiftly moves 40-15 ahead on serve in the opening game. But Kalinskaya comes back at her for deuce. Despite this being only a second grand slam quarter-final for Kalinskaya, the 22nd seed knows this match is on her racket, and she’s trying to stamp her authority from the off. She has the greater firepower, which she demonstrates to get to her advantage. Chwalinska craftily works Kalinskaya around the court and saves the break point. But the next two points go Kalinskaya’s way and the Russian breaks in the opening game.

The qualifier Chwalinska (pronounced Hfa-leen-ska in case you were wondering) is having the time of her life in Paris, having won all but one of her seven matches in straight sets, upsetting Zheng Qinwen, Elise Mertens and Maria Sakkari along the way. Her solitary grand slam match victory before this tournament came at Wimbledon four years ago, after she’d taken a break from tennis because of depression. She has said she associated the sport with “pressure, stress and crying” but now has a more balanced approach: “The results don’t define me as much as they did before. I just couldn’t differentiate Maja and tennis player. I was just one.”