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Currently lives in: Thornhill, Ont.When tennis player Bianca Andreescu was 15, she made herself a promise of sorts. She had just won the 2015 Orange Bowl, a prestigious junior tournament, and it was the first time in her then eight-year career that she thought she could actually do big things in the sport. “After that tournament, I wrote a check for myself for winning the U.S. Open,” recalls Andreescu.
Not only did she just win the September tournament, becoming the first Canadian to do so and the first Canadian tennis player to win a Grand Slam title, but she also defeated her longtime idol, Serena Williams, to do it. The win came on the heels of another great display from the player—she took home the Rogers Cup in August after Williams had to withdraw due to injury, making Andreescu the first Canadian to win the cup since 1969.
“It feels amazing,” Andreescu says of her accomplishments, which are especially meaningful considering she was sidelined for four months with a shoulder injury earlier this year. “I’ve always wanted to break records [and] create history, so being able to achieve it means a lot because I’ve been working really hard for this moment.”
And with her renown, Andreescu hopes to help empower other young women in the sport. “I’m so grateful to the legends before me, like Billie Jean King, who had the courage to speak up, benefitting players like me,” she says. “It’s important for us to do that for each other—we women have to have each other’s backs.
Andreescu may be just getting started, but her legacy is top of mind. “[I want people to remember me as] someone who was able to go out on the court and fight her ass off no matter what,” she says. “[I want them to say] ‘She fought any kind of adversity and she didn’t care who was on the other side of the court. She just did her thing.’”
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