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.
A Muslim passenger:
"Excuse me, can you turn off the music?"
The driver:
"Why?"
The passenger:
"Music is haram."
The driver:
"Why is music haram?"
The passenger:
"Because there was no music in the time of prophet Muhammad."
The driver:
"Well, get off then. There were no cars back then either. A camel will come pick you up."
😂🤭😂
I can't believe what I've just watched.
A portrait honouring Henry Nowak was placed outside the British Embassy in Poland and staff removed it.
The wonderful people of Poland care more about Henry than staff at our OWN embassy.
Disgusting and absolutely heartbreaking.
Hi @Grok - friend of mine who is a former police officer has set out what she considers to be the 10 most serious breaches of PACE in Henry Nowak’s case below. Can you set out what you consider to be your 10 most serious breaches in a similar way and explain each one, please?
Never forget Keir Starmer never bothered to meet the mother of Rhiannon Skye Whyte.
She was murdered by an illegal migrant from the migrant hotel she worked at.
Shabana Mahmood has CONDEMNED the Henry Nowak protests in Southampton, saying those responsible will be arrested.
Meanwhile, here she is on a pro-Palestine protest which turned violent and forced a supermarket to close.
She has since deleted this video. Please don't RT it.
Let me categorically Debunk this utter rot. @sainsburys.
I am a poultry Breeder. The hens that lay white eggs (Amberline/White Star) DO NOT have a lower carbon footprint.
Yes they eat a bit less and produce roughly the same amount of eggs as the Brown egg layers (Bovan/Lowman/ISA Brown) but they live shorter lives, are prone to dying suddenly when startled, a flighty and nervous and because they live shorter productive lives (12 -18mnths) vs brown 18/24mnths (both commercial farmed), you have to incubate more which is increased (Electricity/gas costs) and their eggs are not the same quality.
I breed and keep 20+ different breeds, including: ISA Brown hens and White Stars. All my hens are 100% free range, Not a single barn kept bird, I have ISA browns that are 5yrs old and still laying beautiful Brown eggs, I have not seen a White star live beyond 3yrs and certainly none have laid eggs past 18-24mnths.
White stars Lay themselves to death. They are slender birds and because they dont eat a lot, it drains their personal vitality to keep up laying the eggs you want to sell because of the nonsensical lie that they are "More Carbon Neutral"
You want to know about eggs, come talk to someone like me, Don't rely on some hairbrained imagination of a buyer who's trying to squeeze the profit margin for a few extra pennies at our expense and to the poor hens detriment.
Doreen Lawrence, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, has blamed Hants Police for the death of Henry Nowak.
Her words “I think what’s happened with him should never have happened. And the police should be at fault for what happened on that night,”
Perhaps Bridget Phillipson would care to comment on this allegation that her mother stole £728K of taxpayers money?
Also the allegation that Sue Sim was forced out for investigating it?
🤔🤔🤔 @bphillipsonMP
A 15-year-old British girl in Leamington was gang-raped by Afghans. She recorded everything on her phone, begging “Help me, please help me, they’re going to rape me.”
Her lawyers said the footage couldn’t be released — it would cause riots across the country.
So the truth is suppressed to protect the narrative.
Afghan rapists. British child victim. Evidence hidden.
This is the grooming gang nightmare on steroids.
The British people deserve the full truth — no more cover-ups.
Imagine you are a dental hygienist and live in Sweden..
You are employed to help “migrant children” with their dental issues.
As part of your job you examine the wisdom teeth development of the kids and you notice that 80% of those “kids” have fully formed wisdom teeth, implying they are not kids at all but adults older than the age of 18.
You tell the Swedish Migration Agency and they advise you to put it in writing.
When you send exact details, with examples of specific patients you are suspended, investigated and fired for disclosing private information relating to patients.
This happened to Bernt Herlitz in 2017.
When he appealed the unfair dismissal he ultimately lost and was fined about $50,000.
He and his family faced financial hardship and almost lost their home, until some generous benefactors raised money for him. Bernt remains unemployed today, despite staff shortages for dentists in his area in Gotland.
At the time, Sweden scoffed at the tests and claimed they were “discriminatory” but since then they have quietly brought in mass dental testing, for those whose age is in doubt, by the National Board of Forensic Medicine.
Bernt deserves a medal. Not vilification and unemployment.
Ese camión no es “solo un vehículo”, es el sustento de alguien.
Su hipoteca. La comida de su familia.
Quien lo destruya debería pagar por cada daño.
¿Quién está de acuerdo en que estos llamados “manifestantes” sean procesados como terroristas?
Labour set to introduce their nastiest policy yet. It's the "Nice Pub Tax" Any lovely country pub like the Kingswood Arms near me pays higher taxes simply for being a wonderful place to eat and drink in middle England. Economic moron @RachelReeves has hit a new low in class envy