Bianca Andreescu

Early life

Andreescu was born in Mississauga and is of Romanian descent. Her middle name—Vanessa—was inspired by actress and singer Vanessa Williams. She moved to her parents’ native country of Romania as a child and started playing tennis at age seven. Andreescu and her family moved back to Canada where she trained at the Ontario Racquet Club in Mississauga. When she was eleven years old, she joined Tennis Canada’s U14 National Training Centre in Toronto for the 2011–2012 season. At age 14, her favorite player was Romanian Simona Halep. Due to the time spent on court, Andreescu is completing her high school degree online.

2014

In January, Andreescu won Les Petits As, one of the most prestigious 14 and under tournaments in the world. In July, she won her first junior titles, taking the singles title at the Grade 5 tournament in Havana, and the doubles title—partnered with Maria Tanasescu—at the Grade 4 tournament in Nassau the following week. She won her second and third junior singles titles in the fall at the Grade 5 tournament in Burlington and the Grade 4 tournament in Lexington. Andreescu ended her season with the under-16 title at the Orange Bowl with a straight sets win over Dominique Schaefer, becoming the fourth straight Canadian after Erin Routliffe, Gloria Liang and Charlotte Robillard-Millette to win that event.

2015

Andreescu began her 2015 season by winning both the singles and doubles titles at the Grade 2 tournament in La Paz. Two weeks later at the Grade 2 tournament in Córdoba, she captured her third junior doubles title. At the French Open, Andreescu qualified for her first junior Grand Slam, but was defeated in the first round in girls' singles—by the eventual runner-up, Anna Kalinskaya—and in the second round in girls' doubles. At Wimbledon, she was once again eliminated in the first round in girls' singles and in the second round in girls' doubles. At her first professional tournament, the ITF 25K in Gatineau in August, Andreescu advanced to the final with wins over No. 429 Ellie Halbauer, No. 288 Barbora Štefková, No. 206 Shuko Aoyama and No. 275 Victoria Rodríguez. She was defeated by No. 155 Alexa Glatch in the final. In early September, she won her first junior Grade 1 title with a victory over compatriot Robillard-Millette in Repentigny. She lost in the opening round of the US Open girls' singles event. In December, at 15 years of age, she became the first Canadian since Gabriela Dabrowski in 2009 to win the under-18 Orange Bowl, a Grade A tournament. She became the first to win the under-16 and under-18 titles in consecutive years since Mary Joe Fernandez in 1984–85; Chris Evert is another to perform the feat.

In 2015, Andreescu began working with former world No. 3 Nathalie Tauziat, who previously coached Eugenie Bouchard. Tauziat described Andreescu: "She can do many things, she has good hands and she's a very powerful girl. [...] She has big goals and she is doing many things to reach these big goals." Andreescu was named the 2015 Outstanding Junior Female by Tennis Canada.

2016

At the Australian Open, Andreescu was the top seed in both girls' singles and girls' doubles. She advanced to the third round in singles and doubles before withdrawing from both because of recurring injuries including her left adductor, right ankle, and a stress fracture in her foot. The injury kept her from competition for six months. She returned to play in the Wimbledon girls' singles event as the sixth seed, but lost in the third round. At the Gatineau ITF 25K tournament a month later, Andreescu claimed the first professional title of her career with a straight sets victory over Ellie Halbauer. Andreescu also won the Gatineau doubles title with compatriot Charlotte Robillard-Millette. At the 2016 US Open in September, Andreescu had her best run so far at a junior Grand Slam, reaching the semifinals in singles and the quarterfinals in doubles. At the ITF 50K in Saguenay in October, she reached the singles and doubles finals. Two weeks later at the ITF 50K Tevlin Women's Challenger, Andreescu made it to the quarterfinals in singles and the semifinals in doubles.

2017

In January at the junior event of the Australian Open, Andreescu advanced to the semifinals in singles and won the doubles title with Carson Branstine. In February in Rancho Santa Fe, she captured her second ITF 25K singles title with a straight sets win over Kayla Day.

National representation

In 2014, Andreescu teamed with Tanasescu and Brindtha Ramasamy to represent Canada at the World Junior Tennis event, an international team championship for boys and girls aged 14-and-under. Andreescu went 3–2 in singles matches and went 2–1 in doubles matches, as Canada finished seventh overall.

Andreescu teamed with Robillard-Millette and Vanessa Wong to represent Canada at the 2015 women's Junior Fed Cup finals (for girls 16-and-under) in Madrid. Andreescu went 5–0 in singles matches and went 4–1 in doubles matches, leading Canada to a third-place finish.

At the 2016 Junior Fed Cup, Andreescu teamed with Isabelle Boulais and Layne Sleeth to represent Canada. Andreescu went 4–1 in singles matches and went 4–0 in doubles matches, leading Canada to a fifth-place finish.

In 2017, Andreescu was selected to represent Canada at the Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I, along with Charlotte Robillard-Millette, Katherine Sebov and Carol Zhao. She had a 6–0 overall record, 4–0 in singles rubbers and 2–0 in doubles rubbers, without losing a set in the four ties played. Canada ended Round Robin in first place and won the promotional playoff over Chile, securing their place in the World Group II playoffs against Kazakhstan later in April.

Record against top 100 players

Andreescu's win-loss record (1–2, 33%) against players who were ranked world no. 100 or higher when played is as follows: