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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPoland’s Maja Chwalinska reacts after winning the quarterfinal tennis match against Russia’s Anna Kalinskaya at the French Open in Paris, Wednesday, June 3, 2026. (AP Photo\/Emma Da Silva)<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old Chwalinska put her hand over her mouth and then her face in her hands in near disbelief.<\/p>\n
\u201cI honestly don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on. Every single match here is kind of crazy for me,\u201d she said. \u201cI was definitely nervous. I\u2019m stressed of course but I try and focus on my job, on my game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chwalinska had never been beyond the second round at any major before this tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m playing against the best players in the world,\u201d she said. \u201cI won\u2019t compare myself to them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her next opponent will be the winner of Wednesday\u2019s last remaining women\u2019s quarterfinal between top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka, last year\u2019s runner-up, and No. 25 Diana Shnaider.<\/p>\n
Windy conditions<\/p>\n
After they traded early breaks of serve amid blustery conditions with the roof open on Court Philippe-Chatrier, Chwalinska led 5-1 until Kalinskaya broke back in the seventh game, having saved a set point, then held for 5-3.<\/p>\n
Kalinskaya saved another set point at 40-30 down in the following game, then used her strong backhand to break a nervous-looking Chwalinska\u2019s serve again.<\/p>\n
A fan waved a Poland flag when Chwalinska held in the 11th game to stem Kalinskaya\u2019s comeback. The flag was raised again when she won a 25-stroke rally to move 5-3 up in the tiebreaker, and she clinched the first set at the third opportunity when Kalinskaya\u2019s two-handed backhand sailed long.<\/p>\n
Chwalinska secured a double break of serve to lead 4-1 in the second set, but dropped her serve when serving for the match at 5-2.<\/p>\n
It made little difference as Kalinskaya\u2019s flagging serve soon gave her another chance.<\/p>\n
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Men\u2019s matches<\/p>\n
In the two remaining men\u2019s quarterfinals, No. 4 Felix Auger-Aliassime took on No. 10 Flavio Cobolli before unseeded Italians Matteo Berrettini and Matteo Arnaldi faced off.<\/p>\n
All of Wednesday\u2019s matches were held on Chatrier.<\/p>\n
Second-seeded Alexander Zverev and No. 26 Jakub Mensik won their quarterfinals Tuesday and will meet in the semifinals. ___<\/p>\n
AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS (AP) \u2014 Maja Chwalinska extended her remarkable French Open run by beating No. 22-seeded Anna Kalinskaya 7-6…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-712144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}