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RSS FeedsRosie DiManno: Bianca Andreescu beats the best to become the first Canadian Grand Slam champion
(The Star Food)

 
 

8 september 2019 04:30:04

 
Rosie DiManno: Bianca Andreescu beats the best to become the first Canadian Grand Slam champion
(The Star Food)
 


NEW YORK—She woke up imagining it. She probably went to sleep reliving it.Wow. Just WOW.It’s real, girl.Bianca Andreescu is coming home as Canada’s first Grand Slam champion ever.She The North. South. East and West. Standing astride the entire tennis universe on the biggest stage — literally — in the sport. On those muscular legs. Beads of sweat rolling down those apple cheeks.No Canadian had won so much as a single set in a majors final until Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019, at the U.S. Open.Revolutionary, really.At least as gob-smacking at the Toronto Raptors hauling an NBA championship over the border.And, to do it, to get there, taking out merely the greatest tennis player in history — regardless of what the record says — in Serena Williams.Serena is the best ever. Bianca was the best on a Saturday afternoon in New York. They’re still separated by 22 Slam titles.Still, whatever nervousness the Mississauga-born Andreescu may have experienced, she turned into nervy blow-for-blow lethality, crafting a 6-3, 7-5 triumph.The 19-year-old proved herself fearless, not just against a legend of the game but in front of a Serena-adoring partisan crowd, right in the 37-year-old’s wheelhouse. An audience that included the Duchess of Sussex — Meghan Markle, William’s BFF, who left Baby Archie behind, catching a commercial flight from London to witness the final.(As a royal, Meghan is now 0-for-2 at Serena slams.)“I could barely hear myself think,” the Queen of Queens —Bianca, U.S. Open champion — said afterwards. “It was really, really loud. But I guess that’s what makes this tournament so special. It’s really nice for the Americans to come on that court.”Not so nice for non-Americans, in Big Apple tennis. But less hostile than it had been for Andreescu earlier in the tournament.Because, honest, she just doesn’t bring out the hate in anybody, in a sport that can ...


 
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