French Open Day 12 - Will Maja Chwalinska match Raducanu’s title run?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Catherine, David and Matt are joined by The Athletic’s Charlie Eccleshare on the day that Maja Chwalinska and Mirra Andreeva booked their spots in Saturday’s Roland Garros Final.
Part one - We react to Chwalinska’s absorbing victory over Diana Shnaider and the continuation of her remarkable run from qualifying. How did Chwalinska showcase the full range of her game? And how will she handle the next 48 hours?
Part two (24:38) - We discuss Andreeva’s comfortable win against Marta Kostyuk in the day’s first semi-final. In what way did Andreeva deal with the conditions and demonstrate her mindset growth? What happened to Kostyuk and why was she able to process this defeat so well in the press conference? And how might the final play out?
Part three (44:27) A preview of tomorrow’s men’s semi-finals. What does Jakub Mensik have to do to upset Alexander Zverev?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast on day 12 of the French Open, a tournament where we have learned to expect the unexpected and yet the most unexpected thing of all has happened today, |
| 0:25.1 | and absolutely none of us saw it coming. |
| 0:28.5 | World number 114, Maya Kvinsky, today, became the first ever qualifier to reach a Roland Garros final. |
| 0:37.9 | She's the third lowest ranked major finalist in the open era of women's tennis |
| 0:42.4 | behind Emma Radiccanu and Kim Kleisters, |
| 0:45.3 | who was unranked when she came back to win the 2009 US Open. |
| 0:50.0 | And she might, Filinska, be everyone's new favourite player. |
| 0:55.2 | For a story of this magnitude, we have drafted in reinforcements in the form of the |
| 0:59.2 | athletics, Charlie Eccleshare, Charlie. |
| 1:01.6 | You are quite often the guy that sees things coming. |
| 1:06.1 | I will never forget you picking Marquetta von Drozhava for the 2023 Wimbledon title when she was the last name on everyone else's list. |
| 1:14.7 | Did you see Maya Fulinska coming? |
| 1:18.6 | I mean, I'd love to pretend I did, but no, I didn't. |
| 1:21.4 | I mean, I saw her, in fact, in the first round against Junckenwen. |
| 1:25.8 | And again, I'd love to say at that point, I said, look out, look out for this qualifier. |
| 1:31.7 | She is going to take this tournament by storm. |
| 1:33.9 | But I didn't. |
| 1:34.4 | I mean, I thought she was really awkward and, you know, not an opponent that players would relish playing, but not for a moment did I think, I mean, she would get anything close to this. |
| 1:44.8 | How could anyone see this coming? |
| 1:46.3 | I mean, I'm not sure she would have had any sense that this was coming. |
| 1:49.8 | It's all just falling into place for her in the most incredible way. |
| 1:53.8 | And then you watch her and do like, yeah, I mean, how far can she take this? |
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