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By Giri Nathan
[vc_empty_space height="15px"]Few young players have walked onto the tour and screamed “talent” as loudly and unflinchingly as Bianca Andreescu did in 2019. It didn’t take a tennis savant to tell. I’m not exaggerating when I say her tennis looked qualitatively different from the rest of the field. Nobody with that much pure power had such a vast variety of shots, and vice versa. She arrived on the WTA fully formed, playing at the level of a world No. 1, but even then it seemed clear: Winning was easy for Bianca, but staying healthy wasn’t. That year she beat the first seven top 10 players she ever faced in her career, took two Premier titles, and won the US Open at age 19. It’s still unclear whether that will be her peak. Since she lifted that Open trophy that September, Andreescu has played only 43 matches over some 20 months, waylaid by all kinds of obstacles.