Canada’s Bianca Andreescu will make her return to Wimbledon next week as the women’s main draw gets underway.<\/p>\n
Andreescu advanced to the grass-court Grand Slam with a 6-3, 7-6 (4) third-round win over Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus on Thursday at the qualifying venue in Roehampton, roughly five kilometres northwest of the All England Club.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., came from down a break twice in the second set to clinch her spot at Wimbledon after missing out last year with a second-round qualifying loss to fellow Canadian Carson Branstine.<\/p>\n
Andreescu, a former world No. 4 and the 2019 U.S. Open champion, has made five previous trips to the Wimbledon main draw, making it as far as the third round in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n
She is the lone Canadian to advance out of qualifying after Toronto’s Katherine Sebov dropped a 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5) decision to Russia’s Iryna Shymanovich.<\/p>\n
The hard-fought loss ended Sebov’s quest for a first Wimbledon appearance, which started when she was a last-minute addition to the qualifying draw and included a comeback from 5-3 down in the deciding set in her second-round win over Germany’s Noma Noha Akugue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada’s Bianca Andreescu will make her return to Wimbledon next week as the women’s main draw gets underway.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-760796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760796","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=760796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}