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.
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๐ฅ๐จLATEST: New York Giants QB Jaxson Dart gave a brutal response when he was asked if he was worried about losing fans for supporting Donald Trump:
Dart: โI donโt think many blue hairs watch the NFL if weโre being honest.โ
F-this. Most of our employees are either active or former law enforcement or immediate families of cops... but we're taking off the LE hat for a minute.
According to the prosecutor, thereโs DNA evidence that sweet little seven-year-old Athena Strand was also S*XUALLY ASSAULTED by the FedEx driver who kidnapped and executed her:
"We have Tanner Horner's DNA in places where you shouldn't find DNA on a seven-year-old girl."
You know what? Stop the trial. Hand this guy over to us. We've got a group of dads that know just how to save the taxpayers money. Give us 48 hours and we'll make the movies "Law Abiding Citizen" and "Saw" look like romantic comedies.
There's only one way for justice to be served here. Slowly and privately.
REPOST if you agree.
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BREAKING - The woman who made a video hoping Iran would find the downed service member and hold him hostage as leverage against the US has been identified as Melissa Halverson, who works as an administrative assistant at the Green Apple Pantry in Michigan.
You know what to do.
BREAKING - The woman who made a video hoping Iran would find the downed service member and hold him hostage as leverage against the US has been identified as Melissa Halverson, who works as an administrative assistant at the Green Apple Pantry in Michigan.
You know what to do.
Until recently, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter were green card holders living lavishly in the United States.
Afshar is the niece of deceased Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani. She is also an outspoken supporter of the Iranian regime who celebrated attacks on Americans and referred to our country as the "Great Satan."
This week, I terminated both Afshar and her daughter's legal status and they are now in ICE custody, pending removal from the United States.
The Trump Administration will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes.
@officer_Lew The officer didnโt escalate it. Didnโt use any weapons. Really kudos to him. Idk if he knew the suspect or not but when you fight with them they are justified in using lethal force. It makes no sense to fight with them. Iโm glad everyone will see tomorrow and learn from this
@d3rekfk@Coastalkev66@awfulannouncing You donโt know history eitherโฆ.. Missouri is a longtime bellwether state. It voted for the winning President in every election for over 100 years, except two.