Why Bianca Andreescu believes U.S. Open win is just the beginning - Sportsnet.ca

TORONTO — Drake texted but she isn’t sure what to write back. Toronto Mayor John Tory wants to have a parade and she thinks "that would be really cool" but she has to check her schedule. And she watched a replay of what she accomplished on Saturday and thought: "Wow."

On Wednesday, Andreescu strode into a very full interview room at the Aviva Centre, dressed all in Nike — a black Nike Air dress and jacket, with a red Nike purse around her waist. She sat down in front of a red banner that featured her hashtag: #SheTheNorth, and to her right was a photo of her kissing that U.S. Open trophy, eyes closed, just after she beat Serena Williams in straight sets in front of more than 23,000 people in New York who wanted a different ending.

These are all things Andreescu could see from afar , over social media. But when she went to Yorkdale Mall on Tuesday, her first stop since returning from New York on a private jet , she noticed she was getting noticed more than usual. She still can’t believe she was on Jimmy Fallon’s show. "I didn’t think he was a real person before meeting him," she said. Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie wants to give her the keys to the city.

She says there’s always room for improvement: Mentally, physically, in the shot-making department. Asked whether she’ll feel more pressure to perform now that she won a Grand Slam, Andreescu’s upper lip shot up and she said: "Not at all." She likes that pressure, folks. She mentioned Billie Jean King’s quote: "Pressure is a privilege."

Well, Andreescu is already a very good tennis player. A great tennis player. She’s No. 5 in the world, for Pete’s sake. And as her former coach, Andre Labelle, pointed out, "All the girls now have to prepare to play her, because she plays differently." The hallmarks of Andreescu’s game are power and variety, including slices and drop shots and varying heights and speeds.

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