{"id":573888,"date":"2026-03-31T23:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/573888\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T23:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:10:10","slug":"canadas-bianca-andreescu-rallies-for-long-awaited-win-at-charleston-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/573888\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada’s Bianca Andreescu rallies for long-awaited win at Charleston Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bianca Andreescu ended a long drought on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Canadian won her first WTA main-draw match since last July with a 1-6, 6-4, 6-1 upset of world No. 84 Dalma Galfi of Hungary in the first round of the Charleston Open, a WTA 250 clay-court event.<\/p>\n

Andreescu, whose ranking has slipped to No. 140, has played mostly lower-level events this year as she tries to boost her ranking to the highs of 2019 when she won the U.S. Open and reached No. 4 in the world.<\/p>\n

Andreescu lost a three-set match to Galfi in February in Austin, Texas. The Canadian’s last main-draw win came at last year’s National Bank Open presented by Rogers in Montreal when she suffered an ankle injury, preventing her from playing in the second round.<\/p>\n

Andreescu, 25, has done well building herself back up at lower levels this year, sporting a win-loss record of 19-5.<\/p>\n

She started the year at No. 228.<\/p>\n

“I wanted to do that back in 2024 (after a nine-month hiatus), but I guess we can say my ego got in the way of that,” Andreescu said of her decision to return to lower levels this year, per the WTA Tour<\/a>. “I decided that maybe it’s time to put that aside and really get what I’ve been needing, which is matches. It’s never guaranteed that you’ll be getting a lot of matches \u2014 the level on the ITF circuit is huge, I think. They’re fighting for a lot.<\/p>\n

“Looking back at how I feel being on the WTA Tour, it’s more comfortable, right? You get more benefits being on the WTA Tour, so mentally you maybe relax a little bit. But on the ITF tour, I mean, it’s do-or-die. These players are barely breaking even. I proved to myself that I can play match after match and feel good. I played 14 matches in 16 or 17 days, and my body felt great.”<\/p>\n

Andreescu said she was happy with her effort against Kalma.<\/p>\n

“At the end of the day, it’s the effort that counts for me,” she said in her on-court interview. “If I’ve given the best I could that day, which I think I did, that’s the most important thing. And then intention, that’s what I speak about with my coach every single day. If I can give those two things, then win or lose, it doesn’t matter to me \u2014 have to be pleased with that.”<\/p>\n

Andreescu will next face No. 16 seed Sofia Kenin of the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bianca Andreescu ended a long drought on Tuesday. The Canadian won her first WTA main-draw match since last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-573888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}