Anna Kalinskaya

While we're on numbers,

though, while we're on numbers, another number that I don't know whether anyone saw it this week, but Anna Kalinskaya has taken 62 match timeouts this year.

Injury timeouts.

Yeah, 62 medical timeouts in 42 matches.

And again, when we talk about, you know, we make it taking out of Igor Shvontek there for doing that.

you know, against her friend, Maja Trulinska, playing and finishing it.

Anna Kalinskaya, who is not the most popular player on tour, but does have some friends, one of whom is Sarana Kristeja.

And in playing Sarana Kristeja a few weeks back, she retired at, I think, five love, 40 love down.

Obviously, she's had a few sort of public issues now with her marriage, as she spoke about this week.

Iga Sviontek obviously ended her season, and Anna Kalinskaya was meant to be here, but she hasn't, and Maybe that's a good thing for her because I think an interview cropped up about her and Maja Walenska earlier on this year.

And I think Walenska has made her look fairly foolish by winning that 1,000 event in Wuhan last week.

So perhaps she's glad not to be here.

That's a fascinating list for the 25-year-old to find herself on.

Of course, Kalinska, for what it's worth, just the third lefty to win a WTA 1,000-level event.

It's her.

It's Petra Kvitova.

Um, undeterred, goes and plays a 250, includes Napoca, qualifies, makes the quarterfinals there.

But then, again, goes and plays the 125s, makes a semifinal, wins a title at the start of April.

All of a sudden, things are rolling, and she qualifies into the main draw of Roland Garros, wins over Chin Wen and Mertens and Kalinskaya and Schneider.

And yes, that draw certainly opened up for her, but guess what? In a Roland Garros defined by upsets and inconsistencies, she was the one who emerged consistent, dropped just one set on her way to that final before getting ultimately knocked out by Mira Andreeva.

I, and I feel as though she's proved now, because she's done it on a hard court, she, you now look at-

Paging Anna Kalinskaya.

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[laughs] Yeah, you look at next year now, and obviously it depends how she plays and whether people can find certain keys to working her out and that sort of thing, but it makes me think, "Well, that's a heck of a lot of the tennis calendar covered off that you've shown you can win on and be successful on," because I kind of wondered whether hard court would, would blunt her weapons, you know, because of the drop shot and, and that sort of thing.

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Yeah, she's, she's really, uh, beating the Kalinskaya allegations from Roland Garros, that it's only gonna work on, on clay, that game, because she-

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... fan boozled Świątek today.

Yeah.

Yeah, because it looks like it was gonna be Kalinskaya, but she pulled out also today.

So like-

Okay