Canada’s Bianca Andreescu will delay her start to the 2022 tennis season and skip the upcoming tournaments in Australia, including the Australian Open.
In a lengthy message posted on social media, the 2019 US Open champion explained that the past two years were exceptionally difficult for her and she felt like she was carrying the world on her shoulders.
Multiple weeks in isolation due to COVID-19 protocols caused her great physical and mental suffering. On top of that, her grandmother ended up in the intensive care unit due to a coronavirus infection.