‘This is a very humble and hungry young lady who has a game that is just dynamite’
Last January, Bianca Andreescu entered the qualifiers for the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand, and managed to secure a place in the main draw of the WTA event.
She was an unknown, among peers in the depths of the world rankings. Like the song lyric from Drake, the hip-hop superstar that Andreescu now casually mentions as a social-media friend, she really did start from the bottom. And then Andreescu went out and played the match that started to establish her legend. She was clearly labouring, and required medical attention at multiple points. In the deciding third set, after Kerber had just broken her serve, court-side cameras caught her in an intense discussion with her coach, Sylvain Bruneau, during a changeover. “I can barely move out there,” she said. He said she was going to have to push through it. “I want this so bad,” she said. He told her he was glad to hear it.
And while Williams would retire at 3-1 in the first set, citing back spams, to hand the Canadian the victory, it was telling that Andreescu hadn’t wobbled a bit on the big stage. She had already broken Williams’ serve when the match was halted. The pair shared some tears, and Williams would say that Andreescu “definitely doesn’t seem like a 19-year-old in her words, on court and her game, her attitude, her actions.”Two weeks after the win in Toronto, Andreescu arrived in New York for the U.S.
In the semi-finals, Andreescu ran into Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic, who played rock-steady tennis and had the Canadian on the defensive for most of the match. But Andreescu dominated a first-set tiebreaker, and after Bencic recovered for a 5-2 lead in the second set, Andreescu reeled off five straight games to clinch the victory. “I think when I’m down, I play my best tennis,” she said. “Whenever my back is against the well, I think I’m just extra focused in those moments.” So we had noticed.
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