Here’s the moon.Here’s five million bucks.Here’s a key to … Mississauga?Whatever Bianca wants, Bianca gets.And that will include a champion’s cavalcade in Toronto, should she fancy it.“If she wants a parade in Toronto, there will be a parade in Toronto,’’ Mayor John Tory makes clear.Bianca Andreescu, Canada’s first-ever Grand Slam titlist, is coming home from New York City to a heroine’s welcome, one way or the other. After humping her U.S. Open Trophy to the top of the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, after doing a victory lap of all the American network morning shows, after a charming guest shot on The Tonight Show, the 19-year-old is finally catching her breath on Canadian soil.Where, it seems, the civic dignitaries might have to split the baby.Mississauga, where Andreescu was born, has staked a claim, Mayor Bonnie Crombie tweeting that the city out there in GTA exurbia will honour the teen with a rally, a key and naming a street after her. Maybe that street will even have sidewalks!Tory told the Star he’s keen to likewise pay homage to the newly minted tennis superstar who bested Serena Williams at Flushing Meadows on Saturday. But he’s mindful of not big-footing our neighbouring municipality.“I’m not going to wrest her to Toronto. I don’t want it to look like I’m trying to grab her.”Go ahead: Grab a gotcha.It should be noted that, at Arthur Ashe Stadium, Mississauga was never mentioned, not in the player introductions — “from Ontario, Canada” — and not in the post-match trophy presentation. Further, though Andreescu was born in Mississauga, she now lives with her parents in Thornhill.While a million people may not line the streets to salute Andreescu, as they did for the Toronto Raptors parade, surely a sizable crowd would muster at Nathan Phillips Square. The public has gone just as gaga for the teenager — and, by extension, t ...
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