Anna Kalinska was one of the biggest revelations of the previous season in the WTA cycle. Within a year, a Russian woman from a rather anonymous player who could not pass the second round in the Grand Slam tournament, she became a tennis player from the TOP 20 world ranking. Australian Open quarter -finals, finals of the WTA 500 tournaments in Dubai (losing to Jasmine Paolini) and Berlin (defeat with Jessica Pegul). Great 12 months.
Russian nightmare at the start of the season. She contributed to the success … Evy Lys
Unfortunately, the beginning of 2025 is a nightmare for her. In Brisbane, a defeat in the first match against Ashlyn Krueger. In Adelaide, create one set of clash with Belinda Benć, forced by injury. Jannik Sinner's life partner failed to deal with health problems during the Australian Open and had to withdraw from the competition at the last moment. Let us add that she was replaced by Eva Lys, who reached the 4th round as a happy defeat, later defeated by Iga Świątek. Kalinska finally managed to win the match at the WTA 250 tournament in Singapore (in three sets with Caroline Dolehide). However, after good news, they came again bad.
Kalinska under the fire of the fans. “I never liked her”
One of the users of portal X published screenshots of posts with photos of the Donald Trump family, which were filled by the Russian. Post quickly gained popularity, it already has over 463,000 views. Kalinska was sharply criticized in the comments and accused of sympathy for the controversial US president, who in the first days of the rule managed, among others Announce the removal of all illegal immigrants from the states or remove your country from the World Health Organization (WHO).
“I never liked her especially”, “It's sad when you realize that most tennis players are very conservative,” I regret that I have ever said that I like her “,” Jannik could break her with her ” – these are just some of the compression comments Russian player.
Of course, there were also opinions defending Kalinska, such as “What do you have a problem with? Everyone has the right to support who they want” or “if we were to look at the political preferences of every athlete, it would be easier to stop being interested in sport at all.” However, these were quite noticeably less.