2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescu left the courtroom in a wheelchair because of a leg damage in the second one set of her Miami Open fit towards Ekaterina Alexandrova on Monday night time.
Andreescu was once trailing within the fit when she fell to the courtroom as she moved around the baseline, clutching her decrease left leg and screaming. A short while later, she was once wheeled off the courtroom to a status ovation.
“I’ve never felt this kind of pain before,” mentioned the Canadian as scientific workforce arrived to regard her.
Andreescu had dropped the primary set 7-6 and was once mounting a comeback, profitable the primary two video games of the second one set when she was once pressured to retire. The 22-year-old has had a brutal run of accidents since taking pictures her first grand slam in 2019. On Sunday she advised the Daily Telegraph that she had thought to be retiring.
“That was, honestly, about me wanting to figure out if I really wanted to continue playing tennis,” Andreescu mentioned. “I used to be actually about to drop my rackets and say, ‘Screw this.’ I wasn’t satisfied in any respect and I wasn’t satisfied principally for the overall 12 months of 2021. I assumed, if I proceed like this, it is simply going to worsen.”
However, she had been returning to form recently. She had reached the last 16 in Miami after beating two former grand slam champions, Emma Raducanu and Sofia Kenin, as well as No. 7 seed Maria Sakkari.