{"id":719569,"date":"2026-06-06T19:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T19:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/719569\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T19:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T19:21:09","slug":"roland-garros-finalist-chwalinska-needs-wimbledon-wild-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/719569\/","title":{"rendered":"Roland-Garros finalist Chwalinska needs Wimbledon wild card"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roland-Garros runner-up Maja Chwalinska will skip the entire grass-court lead-up and play only Wimbledon this year, the Roland-Garros runner-up said in Paris \u2013 and even her place in that draw is not yet guaranteed, despite the fortnight that has transformed her ranking.<\/p>\n

Chwalinska, who came through qualifying ranked No. 114 and will rise to around No. 21 when the new rankings are published, said she needed to rest before the grass season. \u201cI\u2019m not going to play anything before Wimbledon, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d she said. \u201cI definitely need some time to recharge. In the back of my head I knew I was going on vacation after the French Open.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked what the next 48 hours held, she laughed: \u201cI have no idea. I hope I\u2019ll finally get some proper sleep \u2013 and that I\u2019ll finally eat something.\u201d<\/p>\n

WIMBLEDON Qualifications<\/p>\n

The complication is one of timing. Wimbledon\u2019s main-draw entry list closed six weeks before the tournament, based on the rankings of 18 May, with the cut falling around No. 101. On that date Chwalinska was still No. 114, outside the line. Her surge to the final came afterwards, too late to count for direct entry. Her new ranking would comfortably clear any cutoff, but the list that governs her place was frozen before any of it happened.<\/p>\n

That leaves her three ways into the main draw: a wild card from the All England Club, the qualifying event, or enough late withdrawals to lift her off the alternate list. Asked whether she hoped for a wild card, and how she would feel about returning to qualifying after reaching a Grand Slam final, she treated it lightly. \u201cThat would be the news of the century,\u201d she said. \u201cHonestly, I don\u2019t expect it. But I\u2019ll treat it as a challenge. It\u2019s a new surface, I don\u2019t have much time, but I\u2019ll give my all.\u201d<\/p>\n


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\u2018It would the news of the century\u201d<\/p>\n

Wimbledon\u2019s singles wild cards are expected to be announced around 17 June, with the main draw released on 26 June, before qualifying, held off-site at Roehampton from 22 to 25 June, even begins.<\/p>\n

Grass, she added, has been a mixed surface for her. \u201cLast year it was a struggle, honestly,\u201d she said. \u201cBut before that I loved playing on it \u2013 I can use a lot of touch and slices, I move pretty well and I anticipate well. It\u2019s always exciting because it\u2019s such a short period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grass memories<\/p>\n

The best grass season so far came in 2022: ranked around 170, Chwalinska won three qualifying rounds at Wimbledon \u2013 beating Coco Vandeweghe among others \u2013 to reach the main draw, then upset Katerina Siniakova in the first round before falling to Alison Riske-Amritraj. Days earlier she had made the quarter-finals at the WTA 125 in Ilkley. Since then, though, the surface has gone quiet for her: in 2023 she lost in the first round of Wimbledon qualifying to Carole Monnet and went out early at Ilkley. In 2025, she lost first round at the Wimbledon qualies against Raluka Serban<\/a> from Cyprus.<\/p>\n

Chwalinska\u2019s journey echo Lo\u00efs Boisson barely a year ago. The Frenchwoman lit up Roland-Garros 2025 as a wild card ranked 361st, beating Pegula and Andreeva on her way to the semi-finals, and rocketed to No. 65 \u2013 only to find the ranking surge hadn\u2019t yet caught up with the calendar. Denied a Wimbledon main-draw wild card, she was sent to qualifying as the top seed and lost her first-ever match on grass, in the first round, on a windy court at Roehampton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roland-Garros runner-up Maja Chwalinska will skip the entire grass-court lead-up and play only Wimbledon this year, the Roland-Garros…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-719569","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\/719569","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=719569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}