Bianca Andreescu has set her sights on winning the Olympic gold medal when she returns from injury.
The Canadian has been blighted by fitness issues throughout her tennis career and she is currently sidelined with a stress fracture in her back.
This has kept her away from the tour for nine months, but the 23-year-old is working extremely hard to get back on the court.
When she does eventually step on the court again, the 2019 US Open champion has a target in mind and it would be one of the greatest accomplishments of her career should she achieve it.
Bianca Andreescu wants to become Olympic champion
With the Paris Olympic Games on the horizon, Andreescu has set herself the goal of not only competing at the event, but ending it with the coveted gold medal around her neck.
The former World Number Four was due to represent Canada at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 but withdrew due to what she described as ‘pandemic-related challenges.’
Three years later she is determined to play in the French capital and win the prestigious hardware for her country. “I’m getting back there, slowly but surely,” she told The Tennis Letter Podcast about her injury comeback.
“At the moment I’m taking it day by day, hopefully soon. I don’t want to get too ahead of myself as I’ve done that in the past and it’s never gotten me anywhere mentally.
“I’ve tried everything in the past and I have been through a few injuries and sometimes I;ve set no expectations and the other times I set goals and other times I didn’t do well and other times I did really well.
“So I don’t know exactly where I’m at other than I want to win the Olympics so I guess that is my Number One goal.”
What is Bianca Andreescu’s injury history?
Since her breakout year in 2019, Andreescu has struggled to stay fit and she has not played since August 2023 due to a stress fracture in her back.
Her injuries do not start there however. She missed the first few months of the 2020 season due to a knee injury and this left her unable to defend her Indian Wells title.
A covid-interrupted 2021 campaign followed and more injuries followed in 2023. During what looked like a promising Miami Open campaign, disaster struck in the fourth round against Ekaterina Alexandrova.
Andresscu was left in agony as she slipped and twisted her ankle which forced her to retire from the match and she needed a wheelchair to leave the court.
This occurred several months before she sustained a stress fracture that has kept her out of action since last season.
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