Open quarter-finalist last year.Īndreescu mixed up her shots and overpowered her foe when opting for big cuts on groundstrokes. Sure seemed that way against Bouzkova, a U.S. “I felt much better in 2022 than I did in 2021, when after losses, I felt so discouraged,” she said. "I honestly didn’t know when I was going to pick up a racket again.”ĭuring her time in Costa Rica last February, Andreescu found a new frame of mind. And it really made me appreciate tennis even more,” Andreescu said with a wide smile. Hung out with friends I hadn’t hung out with in two or three years. And I did other things outside of tennis. “Do I keep pushing and pushing and hope for the best? Or do I take a step back? So that’s what I did. She realized she needed to re-evaluate where she was and where she was headed. Because usually, going on the court is my getaway place - and it stopped feeling like that.” “Just holding a tennis racket, I didn’t feel happy anymore. “That was when I started to ask myself the question: Is this worth it? Is this life worth it? Because I was very stressed out with many things: People in my life the way I was looking at myself in the mirror,” Andreescu said. 25 seed Marie Bouzkova 6-2, 6-4 at Court 3 on Monday, Andreescu used the word “hectic” to describe that period - and she went six months without playing a match from October 2021 to April 2022, including sitting out last year’s Australian Open. All in all, there was a lot going on - after beating No.
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Open final as a teenager, went through a series of health issues, including catching COVID-19, that derailed her career in 2020 and slowed her in 2021, too. Here, then, is how the 22-year-old Canadian described that epiphany in an interview with The Associated Press at Melbourne Park: “I am meant to play the sport and use it as a platform to be an inspiration for others.”Īndreescu, who beat Serena Williams in the 2019 U.S. MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Bianca Andreescu traces the path that brought her back to the tennis tour after a mental health break - and, on Monday, put her back in the win column thanks to beating a seeded opponent at the Australian Open - to what she calls “an ‘Aha’ moment” on a beach in Costa Rica during a spiritual retreat nearly a year ago.
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