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18-Year-Old Bianca Andreescu Upsets Tennis Star Venus Williams

When I was 18 years old I wasn’t doing anything particularly productive. In the time between a stint working at a 50s diner I was busy either loitering at said 50s diner with friends (carb loading with a vengeance) or tanking my GPA by getting continually tanked. My contribution to society as a whole was in the negatives & physically I most closely resembled those crescent roll tubes once you crack one open on the counter top.

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The same cannot be said for Canadian pro tennis player Bianca Andreescu. This afternoon at the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand she beat out Venus Williams 6-7(1), 6-1, 6-3, moving her onto the semi-finals tomorrow.

Born in Canada, she spent much of her childhood in her parent’s home country of Romania & started playing tennis at age 7. Just last year she qualified for her first senior main draw & has exploded from there.

Via Tennis Canada on her performance at last August’s Citi Open in Washington, D.C:

17-year-old Bianca Andreescu achieved more career firsts on Thursday thanks to her impressive 6-2, 6-3 victory over world no. 13 Kristina Mladenovic of France. This is her first Top 20 win and also her first WTA quarter-final, all of this in her first appearance in a WTA main draw. She is the first player born in 2000 to post a victory over a Top 20 player.

In the first round, Andreescu became the youngest Canadian since 1988 to win a WTA main draw match.

Getting to this level takes a tremendous amount of dedication & heart with most players practicing at least four hours per day. The game requires strength, balance, hand-eye-coordination, solid judgement, & a lot of patience. Andreescu clearly has plenty having beat Venus, the #38 player in the world and twenty years her senior, especially considering her own rank, #152.

Both current & 18-year-old-deadbeat-me are in awe at her win, skills and confidence & I expect to see her continue to crush it. Interested to see how she does on Saturday.