Bianca Andreescu
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Catherine and Matt sit down with Bianca Andreescu to talk about her career so far and the journey ahead. Andreescu opens up about the fearlessness she felt in 2019 when she won her US Open title, the injury and mental health struggles which followed, the new perspective on life that she's gained, and why her goals and ambitions remain high.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi this is Bianca Andrescu a very warm welcome to the tennis |
| 0:17.4 | podcast. Thank you so much for taking the time. We're thrilled to have you. Here we |
| 0:21.6 | are in the courtyard of your hotel in Paris |
| 0:25.6 | Your comeback event after 10 months out with yet another injury. I just wondered after the the two the two victories that you had in Paris last week and the |
| 0:36.3 | one defeat as well the sensations of victory and defeat. Are they any |
| 0:40.6 | different after 10 months out? |
| 0:43.0 | Well, first off, thank you for having me. |
| 0:45.0 | And yeah, I mean, 10 months is a really long time. |
| 0:48.0 | I didn't know when I would come back, honestly. |
| 0:51.0 | So just being back on court is a victory for me. |
| 0:54.1 | Roland Garos was kind of like a tentative schedule. |
| 0:58.2 | The goal was actually Wimbledon, but the training was going really, really well. |
| 1:02.5 | And my doctor and I said, OK, I think we're good, |
| 1:05.5 | my team obviously. |
| 1:07.6 | And yeah, I just, I played on Clay for the full preseason. |
| 1:11.3 | I had, I think, a good four months of training and luckily in my matches |
| 1:16.7 | the hard work that I put in really really paid off. I know that practice matches and |
| 1:21.3 | actual matches are totally different, but I really feel like the |
| 1:26.8 | competitor in me really came out. |
| 1:29.8 | And obviously the wins are amazing. |
| 1:32.0 | The losses are still really really hard but for me I just I just have to take it day by day honestly I just I need to stay as positive as I can because I did have a really bad, let's say 2021 season where |
| 1:46.8 | the losses were just too much for me and I just I dealt with it in such a poor way but now I feel |
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