A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.
She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.
Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.
Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.
Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.
She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.
By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.
१९५१ सालच्या एका प्रसिद्ध तमिळ दिवाळी विशेषांकाचे मुखपृष्ठ
चित्राबद्दल थोडंसं..
छत्रपती शिवाजी महाराज (उजवीकडे): शाही मराठा पोशाखात, हिरकणीच्या धाडसाकडे आदराने व आश्चर्याने पाहत आहेत.
हिरकणी (डावीकडे): बाळाला कवेत घेऊन उभी. बाजूला गाई-वासरे व ग्रामीण परिसर. ती एक कष्टकरी गोधनावर प्रपंच चालवते दर्शविते
पार्श्वभूमी: दूर डोंगरावर रायगड किल्ल्याची तटबंदी. हिरकणीने ज्या प्रचंड उंचीवरून कडा उतरला त्याची जाणीव करून देते.
हे दृश्य मातृप्रेम, धाडस आणि महाराजांनी सामान्यांच्या शौर्याला दिलेल्या सन्मानाचे प्रतीक.
कलाकाराची स्वाक्षरी: के. माधवन्
Only a few days ago, I had posted that the DS is planning to instigate Indians against the GoI and PM by posting fake news using their media.
And today PM himself had to debunk a CNBC fake news report inciting Indians by claiming GoI plans restricting foreign travel.
This was done exactly at a time when PM Modi himself is in a foreign tour, just to increase the level of instigation.
As I have said in the post below, MIB & MeiTY need to step up now to fight the war for India. Until next summer, the GLISCO-DS that has:
- infiltrated every media company using its agents (Pakis, communists, radical brown sepoys, racist anti-India westerners),
- influence over every social media platform (Meta platforms seems infiltrated and owned by this network),
- many fake account farms influencing social media in the name of Indians,
is going to attack India using information, misinformation, and disinformation.
The aim is to incite and instigate the population during a time of global economic issues and geopolitical tensions, amplifying the little pain people may feel many fold in their heads, combined with sabotages using the 0.5 front, to cause anarchy in India.
They have long been preparing. I had warned earlier this year itself they were earnestly trying to bring down the support for PM Modi, using fake news and social media psyops, as that's the most important thing to do before inciting Indians against GoI.
@PMOIndia must instruct MIB and MeiTY to:
- Take the issue of fake news reports in foreign media and the fake accounts in social media very seriously.
- They must instruct every Indian media company to vet the news carefully before they post, especially from international newswires. They should stop relying on X.
- Create a media and social media monitoring and rapid response cell. With tools provided to the public to report harmful content.
- Mandate social media companies to provide this "straight to GoI" reporting tool under every piece of content like Europe.
- Rapid response to emerging trends by coordinating with multiple GoI fact-check units and media to debunk fake news and control its spread
If you come out on the streets every Friday, that’s not equality. If you want equality even all the minority run schools and institutions should adhere to the same rules that majority institutions adhere to. You can’t have it both ways. Let’s hear your religious and community declare that Hindus are not Kafirs and are equal human beings as Muslims and then we can talk about equality.
Wishing you all a very Happy Holi!
For this beautiful festival of colours, my son Kiaan Sachar and I have prepared a special and super fun performance of the song "Balam Pichkari" — he’s rocking on the drums and I’m playing the Soprano Sax! This is sure to make you feel the true Holi madness and festive energy. Turn up the volume, enjoy the colours and celebrate with us!
88 painful years after Nehru, acceding to Jinnah's demand, excised it from Vande Mataram, a sitting Prime minister of India proudly sings the sacred paragraph that invokes Goddess Durga. They are not words, they are our history, they are our destiny.
Thank you, @narendramodi.
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