Jayne Kamin-Oncea/USA Today Sports, via Reuters
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Ranked No. 178 at the end of last season, the Canadian teenager Bianca Andreescu set herself what seemed like an ambitious goal: Climb high enough in the rankings to be able to get into the main draw of this year’s second Grand Slam event, the French Open, in May.
Time for a new goal.
“So quickly, like everything is happening so quickly!” she exclaimed late Friday evening as she sat for an interview as a surprise finalist in the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells.
Her run here at age 18 as an unseeded wild card has been a revelation, featuring a 6-0, 6-1 demolition of the former No.