This time last year Bianca Andreescu picked up $392 for losing early at an ITF event. On Sunday the 18-year-old Canadian landed $1.35m and got the tennis world talking with her star-making Indian Wells win
Twelve months ago Bianca Andreescu was toiling in obscurity on the lowest rung of professional tennis, grinding for points to boost her world No 198 ranking at a $25,000 ITF tournament on a university campus in Toyota, Japan. An array of physical woes, including back injuries, shoulder ailments and stress fractures in her foot, were wearing on her teenage body. Her prize money after a straight-sets loss in the second round was $392. As she recalled last week: “I wasn’t really in a good spot.
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