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RSS FeedsWhat they´re saying about Bianca Andreescu: `borderline cocky,´ with talent to back it up
(The Star Food)

 
 

9 september 2019 00:37:23

 
What they´re saying about Bianca Andreescu: `borderline cocky,´ with talent to back it up
(The Star Food)
 


Bianca Andreescu hails from a city most non-Canadians couldn’t pronounce, let alone spell, yet the 19-year-old Mississauga native seems to be on the lips of every tennis fan in the world. After defeating Serena Williams in the Rogers Cup in August, Andreescu returned to beat the former No. 1 in two sets at the U.S. Open Finals on Saturday. Canadians celebrated from coast to coast, tweeting their congratulations to Andreescu and bragging about the country’s recent string of championships, including the Raptors’ victory in June. Canadian coverage was suffused with pride, but coverage elsewhere was more mixed — including an accusation by one ESPN writer that Andreescu was acting “borderline cocky” during the match. Let’s take a look at the most important takes, and what the rest of world is saying about us — and, more importantly, Bianca. A player of, and for, the future Maitreyi Anantharaman of Deadspin wrote that Andreescu’s “exquisite marriage of style and power, and her devastating forehand, trumped (Williams’s) experience.” Andreescu’s talents were also praised by Joel Drucker for Tennis.com, who wrote that she balanced youthful energy with calmness, and that Andreescu will likely be “a major force in tennis all through her 20s.” The 19-year-old Andreescu, who didn’t even make it to the 2018 U.S. Open main draw, was so new to the whole winning thing that, according to Reuters, a “tournament official had to show her which side of the trophy was the front.” But on the court, she showed no signs of inexperience. As Louisa Thomas wrote in the New Yorker, over the last year (and especially on Saturday) Andreescu’s showcased “the kind of competitive intensity and unapologetic swagger usually reserved for a few legends of the game.”What happened to Serena? Much of the American coverage had less to do with Andreescu’s victory, and more to ...


 
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