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CBC
12-05-2025
- Sport
- CBC
Andreescu's impressive run at Italian Open ends with 4th-round loss to Zhang
Bianca Andreescu's run at the Italian Open tennis tournament came to an end Monday with a 7-5, 6-1 loss to Qinwen Zhang in the fourth round. Andreescu, from Mississauga, Ont., looked poised to continue her impressive run at the WTA 1000 clay-court event as she served for the win in the first set in Rome. But Zheng, the eighth seed from China, saved set point before completing her fourth break of the set, then closed out on serve. That momentum carried over as Zhang scored two more breaks in a dominant second set. Zhang overcame eight double faults and a 47.1-per-cent accuracy on first serve to win in 93 minutes. Despite the loss, the tournament was a success for the 24-year-old Andreescu, who returned to action earlier this year after nearly six months off to focus on her health. The former world No. 4 and 2019 U.S. Open champion posted wins over 20th-seed Dora Vekic and 11th-seed Elena Rybakina in Rome and is projected to jump 21 points to No. 100 in the WTA rankings. Also Monday, the top-seeded women's doubles team of Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski and Erin Routliffe of New Zealand advanced to the quarterfinals with a walkover against Peyton Stearns of the United States and Australia's Daria Kasatkina. Stearns and Kasatkina withdrew after Stearns posted a 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (4) win over Naomi Osaka in singles action earlier Monday. The win took two hours 41 minutes to complete.
Fox News
27-03-2025
- Health
- Fox News
Olympic medalist Gabriela Dabrowski reveals why 'cancer had to happen to me'
As Canadian tennis star Gabriela Dabrowski nears the one-year anniversary of her cancer diagnosis, the three-time Grand Slam champion revealed in a recent interview that the life-changing news she received in the spring of 2024 changed her outlook on life for the better. Dabrowski, who won her first Olympic medal in Paris just months after being diagnosed with breast cancer, first revealed in an Instagram post on New Year's Eve that, despite all the success she had seen that season, she had been keeping a secret. She had first observed a lump in her left breast during a "self-exam" in 2023, but it was later dismissed by another doctor. The following year, in the spring, a WTA doctor suggested she get another evaluation, and after a series of testing, Dabrowski was diagnosed with breast cancer. "I don't regret what the doctor told me then [in 2023], because I'm really happy with how my year turned out, what I learned, what I experienced," she told last week. "It's an acknowledgment that cancer is something really messed up and it can be very scary." Unbeknownst to her fans, Dabrowski underwent treatment but remained on the court. She won two doubles titles, including the WTA Tour Final, and earned her first Olympic medal at the Summer Games. She also reached a new career-high in doubles ranking, coming in at No. 3. For Dabrowski, her outlook on life changed following her diagnosis. She said cancer "shook" her into understanding of "what it meant to be alive." "Cancer had to happen to me; something had to shake me, and cancer did that," she told "It shook me. It's not to say that I wasn't grateful for my life before, or the people in it, or the experiences in life that I lead. But it was something bigger, because it really shook me to my core of what it meant to be alive, what it meant to play a sport for a living." Dabrowski came forward with her journey with the hopes of bringing awareness to early detection and sharing her story as a survivor. "Early on in my diagnosis I was afraid of cancer becoming a part of my identity forever," she wrote in her post from December. "I don't feel that way anymore. It is a privilege to be able to call myself a survivor." Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
