Leylah Fernandez says she has discovered she isn’t very patient, which suggests the rain delays upon her return to competitive action probably weren’t that…
Fernandez said in a news conference upon her arrival in Toronto for the tournament formerly called the Rogers Cup that being forced to stay off her feet for an extended period was tougher than expected.
Fernandez said she was heartbroken for a few days after learning in the spring that the injury was a significant one, but that she tried to see the positives: She was able to spend more time than usual with her family, getting some quiet time that a professional tennis career usually does not allow. “I tried seeing it as a bit of a silver lining,” she said.
Before the rain drops fell to add a new level of uncertainty to the day, there were short-term and long-term questions looming over Canada’s latest tennis star. The former stuff was simple: How was the foot? Would she be rusty? Would her conditioning be up to the level required for a full match? The latter stuff is a bit more tricky, if only because Fernandez’s story has such an obvious recent precedent.
Andreescu missed most of two seasons after her supernova 2019, an absence that in part coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic and during which she lost her joy in the sport — though she has said the long layoff helped her rediscover her passion for tennis. She’s scheduled to take Centre Court here on Tuesday and try to reclaim the title she won in 2019.
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