French Open 2026: Kalinskaya v Chwalinska; Sabalenka v Shnaider as quarter-finals continue – live

Updates from Wednesday’s quarter-final matches
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The qualifier Chwalinska (pronounced Hfa-leen-ska in case you were wondering) is having the time of her life in Paris, having won all but one of her seven matches in straight sets, upsetting Zheng Qinwen, Elise Mertens and Maria Sakkari along the way. Her solitary grand slam match victory before this tournament came at Wimbledon four years ago, after she’d taken a break from tennis because of depression. She has said she associated the sport with “pressure, stress and crying” but now has a more balanced approach: “The results don’t define me as much as they did before. I just couldn’t differentiate Maja and tennis player. I was just one.”

Marta Kostyuk was her own toughest rival for so long during the early stages of her career. As she tried to navigate the pressure that accompanied her status as a teenage prodigy, she often struggled to think clearly on the court without her emotion, fears and desperation to succeed torpedoing her form.