Maja Chwalinska is into the French Open final in one of tennis' craziest Slam runs ever - post-match analysis and preview of the final vs Mirra Andreeva

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
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**John Silk** (0:05)
Down the T.
Well done, Deanna Schneider, for getting it back in play. Forehand, though, from Schneider. Now it's Schneider on the attack. She comes into the net.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:14)
Maja Chwalinska, with the biggest shot of her career, she passes Deanna Schneider with the net and clumps to the clay. And I don't even know what clumps means. I can't get the words out.
Maja Chwalinska, take a bow. She has clay all over her back, Raffa Nadal-esque.

**John Silk** (0:33)
Well, Raffa Nadal has won 14 roll on garros. She's gonna go for her first in what is arguably the most impressive and incredible Grand Slam run since Amaradou Karnou of 2021 And who knows, maybe even bigger than that.
We'll have that debate shortly perhaps. But right now, Maja Chwalinska is into the French Open Final. She wins 7-6-6-4. Incredible in 2 hours and 10 minutes.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:00)
An incredible match. It was straight sets.

**John Silk** (1:02)
But that first set in particular was 1 hour and 17 minutes and was just wild. And she is crying into her towel right now.
Oh my goodness me.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:14)
It wasn't meant to be.

**John Silk** (1:15)
It's not supposed to happen in tennis. 114 in the world. She's in the French Open Final. It's nuts people. It is nuts.
Poor Dana Schneider.
Wow. Maja Chwalinska into the French Open Final. Yes, you heard it. You don't need to. You don't need to. Do not adjust your sets. How significant was the medical timeout for? Well, we had medical timeouts for both players, didn't we? For Maja here, we can see in the in the shot here at 1-2. But I think she was just a little bit sick maybe, and just needed some medication. For the rest of the match, she was fine. Dana Schneider had a medical timeout as well, where she had about five minutes with some back attention. So a bit of a survival of the fittest at times in that second set. But wow, surprise in tennis, Nena, indeed. Indeed. Por favor, si podrias subscribir a nuestro canal, sería fenomenal. Okay, what is also fenomenal is that Maja Chwalinska is in the French Open Final.
I don't think there's much debate about it. It has been wild, but we need two or three more wild days ahead. That's all I ask for, especially some wild finals, please. Okay, here is Maja Chwalinska now. Listen to the crowd.
What a moment. What a sport. What a player.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:59)
Maja. You have started your tournament for almost three weeks ago.

**John Silk** (3:39)
Yeah, because she came to qualifying. She came to qualifying.

**Maja Chwalinska** (3:45)
I won't lie. It's so challenging to play against the best players in the world day by day, but I mean, it's a grand slam, so you just gotta, you know, give your all and more.
And yeah, I'm not complaining at all.

**John Silk** (4:04)
She's not complaining at all, people.
This is her run. Almost three weeks, as he says. In fact, Monday the 18th of May, 12, I had four, 16 days, 17 days.

**SPEAKER_3** (4:16)
You seem very calm, very focused just on your game. Is it something you have done every time or you discovered yourself on this part of your game and you're mental in this kind of thing?

**Maja Chwalinska** (4:28)
I don't know. I'm crazy sometimes also.
Yeah, but I mean, I try to stay composed because I know that it's like the best way for me. Like it helps.

**John Silk** (4:40)
There was a lot of polls in the stadium there supporting her today.

**Maja Chwalinska** (4:43)
So that's what I'm trying to do.

**John Silk** (5:17)
Not too many secrets, I don't think.

**Maja Chwalinska** (5:21)
Yeah, but I watched Mirra a bit. They were playing before us, so I watched her game and it was incredible.
So it's just another great experience for me. I will for sure give my all. I will play to Grand Slam Finals, so I mean.

**John Silk** (5:39)
Wow, it's a Grand Slam Final for Maja Chwalinska. So many matches here, there's no secrets for sure.
Thank you. Look at the emotion on her family there.

**Maja Chwalinska** (6:32)
I just want to breathe a little, you know, enjoy it today, and then just recover as much as I can, you know, just to be able to do my own.

**John Silk** (6:45)
Thank you very much. Wow, indeed. Take a bow, Maja Chwalinska, French Open finalist, 2026 And what a match it was. She goes up an early break for one love.
She's broken back pretty quickly.