By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Wednesday, July 3, 2024
13 former Grand Slam champions entered the ladies’s singles draw at Wimbledon this yr. On the time of writing, eight stay, together with Canada’s Bianca Andreescu, who reached the third spherical with a 6-3, 7-6(5) victory over Linda Noskova on Day 3.
Andreescu, who was out for 9 months with a stress fracture in her again and solely returned to the tour in Might, the place she reached the third spherical at Roland-Garros, admits she has had a tricky – and injury-plagued – 5 years since successful her first main title on the 2019 US Open, however she remains to be assured.
“I’ve that confidence,” Andreescu mentioned Wednesday in London. “I do know I did it. And now that I did it, I do know I can do it once more.”
Along with confidence, Andreescu, who will now face Jasmine Paolini, the lady who knocked her out of the draw at Roland-Garros on a wet day in early June (6-0 within the third), is relying on one thing she likes to name “divine timing” this week at Wimbledon.
“I suppose I will maintain utilizing that time period, however ‘divine timing.’ I maintain saying that,” she mentioned. “I do know it has been, what, 5 years (since I gained my main title)? However I do know I have never had the best profession, for instance. I simply take it one match at a time. And understanding that [I did win a major]I feel that additionally helps my self-confidence, since you by no means know what can occur.”
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— Tennis Channel (@TennisChannel) July 3, 2024
Since her shocking run in Paris on her 2024 debut, Andreescu has loved a good grass-court season (6-2 in 2024 to this point), reaching the ultimate in Berlin and narrowly lacking out on her first WTA title since 2019, when she misplaced in three units to Liudmila Samsonova. The 24-year-old says that no matter what occurs within the third spherical after which at Wimbledon, she’s simply joyful to be again on court docket and getting her sport again up.
“Each likelihood I get to step on the court docket is a win for me,” she mentioned. “But when I can get that further win by really successful the sport and ending it, then it is a bonus. My aim is to maintain that momentum going.”
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🇨🇦 Bianca Andreescu defeats 🇨🇿 Linda Noskova 6-3, 7-6 to advance to the third spherical of #Wimbledon.
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And when push involves shove, the Ontario native can at all times depend on the truth that she’s already pulled off one of many hardest feats within the sport. If she might win the US Open as a fresh-faced 19-year-old (on her main-draw debut, no much less), why can’t she do it at Wimbledon?
“I do know what I can do, for instance, with my sport, with my psychological toughness,” she mentioned. “The extra I play, the extra I win, the extra confidence I get. So yeah, I really feel like if I am in, I can mainly win any event I would like. I simply must be in. I’ve to be centered and bodily match, mainly.”