Andreescu Patiently Waits for 'Divine Timing' at Wimbledon

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Wednesday July 3, 2024

13 former Grand Slam champions entered the ladies’s singles draw at Wimbledon this yr. As of this writing, eight at present stay, certainly one of them being Canada’s Bianca Andreescu, who reached the third spherical with a 6-3, 7-6(5) win over Linda Noskova on Day 3.

Andreescu, who missed 9 months with a stress fracture in her again and solely made it again to the tour in Could, the place she reached the third spherical at Roland-Garros, admits that she has had a tough – and injury-marred – 5 years since she gained her maiden main title on the 2019 US Open, however the confidence nonetheless stays together with her.

“I’ve that confidence,” Andreescu stated on Wednesday in London. “I do know that I’ve achieved it. And having achieved that, I do know that I can do it once more.”

Along with confidence Andreescu, who will subsequent face Jasmine Paolini, the lady that knocked her out of the draw at Roland-Garros on a wet day in early June (6-0 within the third), is relying on slightly one thing she likes to consult with as ‘divine timing’ this week at Wimbledon.

“I suppose I maintain utilizing this time period, however ‘divine timing’. I maintain saying that,” she stated. “I do know it has been fricking, what, 5 years (since I gained my main title)? However I do know I have never had, as an instance, the simplest profession after that. I am taking it match-by-match. And understanding that [I did win a major], I suppose that helps my confidence too since you by no means know what can occur.”

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Since her shocking run in Paris in her 2024 debut, Andreescu has had a good grass court docket season (6-2 in 2024 to this point), reaching the ultimate in Berlin, and barely lacking out on profitable her first WTA title since 2019 when she misplaced to Liudmila Samsonova in three units. The 24-year-old says that it doesn’t matter what occurs within the third spherical and past at Wimbledon, she’s simply thrilled to be again on court docket and ramping up her sport as soon as once more.

“Any likelihood I can step on the court docket is a win for me,” she stated. “But when I can get that further win of truly profitable the match and ending it off, then yeah, it is a bonus. My aim is to maintain having that momentum.”

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And when it comes all the way down to crunch time, the Ontario native can all the time depend on the truth that she’s already achieved some of the troublesome feats there may be to perform within the sport. If she may win the US Open as a fresh-faced 19-year-old (on her fundamental draw debut, no much less), why can’t she do at Wimbledon?

“I do know what I am able to, as an instance, with my sport, with my psychological toughness,” she stated. “The extra I am enjoying, the extra I am profitable, the extra confidence I am getting. So, yeah, I really feel like if I am on, I can win any match I would like principally. I simply must be on. I’ve to be centered and bodily properly, principally.”