Bianca Andreescu’s arrival has deepened a solid domestic singles talent base that includes Milos Raonic, Denis Shapovalov, Eugenie Bouchard, Felix Auger-Aliassime and others.
TORONTO — Nicu and Maria Andreescu were sitting in a meeting room at Tennis Canada headquarters in Toronto recently when a wave of tennis folks came in to give them their best.
“We can never take credit for all this. We are a facilitator,” Downey said. “At the end of the day, there are many parents, many external coaches and the players themselves that go on court and actually win these matches. The creation of Tennis Canada’s national training centre in Montreal in 2007 and the addition of regional training hubs were also significant stimulants.
“That’s been a factor as well,” said Hatem McDadi, Tennis Canada’s senior vice-president of tennis development. “A lot of new Canadians have a culture of tennis coming in from Europe and Asia and South America.” He was one of the first players to join Tennis Canada’s national training centre. Andreescu currently trains out of the Montreal venue with coach Sylvain Bruneau.
It’s Canada’s under-20 depth that is the envy of the tennis world and has fans excited about the prospect of finally getting over the Grand Slam hump.Like Andreescu, Auger-Aliassime is just 18 and is already up to a career-high No. 58. Auger-Aliassime is also No. 1 among men’s players aged 18 or under.
She has a deeper pool of training partners and opponents in Florida, but only receives a fraction of financial assistance from Tennis Canada. As a result, overseas travel is limited. “There’s parallel pathways,” McDadi said. “Not always do they come through the province or the clubs or the national program. There’s support all the way through. There’s different ways of doing it.”
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