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Russian tennis star Anna Kalinskaya is pursuing her first Grand Slam -singel title on her career, while other players on the men’s circuit seem to go after her.
Kalinskaya, 26, appeared in an interview on Tuesday and said that Danish tennis player Holger Rune was one of the few who had frequented her direct messages on social media.
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Anna Kalinskaya runs across the field against Elise Mertens from Belgium during their second round match on day four of the WTA 1000 National Bank Open at Iga Stadium on July 30, 2025 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)
She said on “First & Red” that she ignored Rune because “thinks too much of herself.”
“Tennis players – more often before,” she said of who asks her on dates. “Now I’m older. I don’t know, for some it’s just no chance at all. No need to write. Someone wrote like 10 times and then gave up.
“I say that now, but Holger Rune. He writes to everyone. He deserves all this. Thinking too much of himself. But he’s not the only one. A couple (more).”
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Holger Rune (the) responds after returning a shot at Terence ATMane (FRA) during the Cincinnati Open in Lindner Family Tennis Center at Auig. 14, 2025. (Aaron Doster/Imag images)
Rune replied to the clip that took social media by storm.
“Ha ha ha. We may have cultural differences that make Anna read a comment on a story as an invitation to a date,” he wrote on X. “If I want to go on a date, I ask for a date. Don’t worry.”
Kalinskaya, who previously dated Italy’s Jannik Sinner, has a single title for his name and four double titles. The Grand Slam Circuit was a bit of a fight for her this year.
She did not compete in the Australian Open and was removed in the first round of the French Open. She came to the second round of Wimbledon and was jumped in the third round from the US Open. The longest she ever got on a grand slam was the fourth round of Wimbledon in 2024.
Anna Kalinskaya (UKR) Frames for Iga Swatek (Pol) (not depicted) on day seven of the 2025 US Open Tennis Tournament in Usta Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 25, 2025. (Robert Deutsch/IMAGN -Pictures)
Kalinskaya is ranked No. 32 in the world.
