{"id":733009,"date":"2026-06-29T14:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/733009\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:43:09","slug":"maja-chwalinska-injures-foot-holding-match-point-before-losing-in-wimbledon-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/733009\/","title":{"rendered":"Maja Chwali\u0144ska injures foot holding match point before losing in Wimbledon first round"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maja Chwali\u0144ska<\/a>, the 2026 French Open runner-up, endured a cruel first-round exit at Wimbledon after getting injured while holding match point against Mananchaya Sawangkaew Monday.<\/p>\n

Chwali\u0144ska, who was given a wild card for the tournament as is seeded at No. 20, dominated as she established match point on Sawangkaew\u2019s serve, but fell awkwardly when chasing her opponent\u2019s forehand down the line with the score at 6-2, 5-2*, 30-40. Chwali\u0144ska\u2019s condition appeared to deteriorate thereafter, and the supreme court coverage which saw her establish her lead became non-existent. Sawangkaew came back into the match, and recorded a 2-6, 7-5, 6-2 win.<\/p>\n

The Polish 24-year-old called a medical timeout after the injury happened, before attempting to serve out the match. She received attention to her right ankle, and had strapping applied to the area by a trainer.<\/p>\n

In a similar manner to the demise of Jannik Sinner<\/a> in his French Open second-round defeat to Juan Manuel Cer\u00fandolo, whose physical issues also came to a head when serving for the match, Chwali\u0144ska\u2019s level evaporated, and she skewed uncharacteristic errors \u2014 a result of her restricted movement \u2014 which allowed Sawangkaew to find three break points to put the second set back on serve.<\/p>\n

Chwali\u0144ska could not prevent Sawangkaew from leveling the set, and gestured towards her discomfort on multiple occasions. Sawangkaew ultimately won five consecutive games to take the set and level the match.<\/p>\n

Chwali\u0144ska, the world No. 21, went off court for around eight minutes\u00a0between the second and third sets, and while she managed to record an early break, she was still grimacing and stretching out her leg and back between points, while refraining from chasing any ambitious balls.<\/p>\n

Sawangkaew levelled shortly after with a break to love, and from then on the match was something of a procession. Chwali\u0144ska\u2019s exit became inevitable when her opponent took the lead for the first time with another break in the third set, having ironed out her unforced errors.<\/p>\n

Chwali\u0144ska\u2019s first-round Wimbledon exit came just over three weeks after her defeat to Mirra Andreeva in the final at Roland Garros. She became the first qualifier to reach a French Open women\u2019s final, and rose over 90 places in the WTA rankings as a result of her run. That made her the No. 20 seed at Wimbledon, but she also required a wild card to enter, because her ranking was too low to get into the main draw when the entry lists came out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maja Chwali\u0144ska, the 2026 French Open runner-up, endured a cruel first-round exit at Wimbledon after getting injured while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-733009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}