Bianca Andreescu, of Canada, plays a shot to Barbora Krejcikova, of the Czech Republic, during their first round match at the National Bank Open tennis tournament in Montreal, Sunday, July 27, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
By The Canadian Press

Canadian tennis player Andreescu returns to Wimbledon after one-year absence

Jun 25, 2026 | 9:57 AM

LONDON — Canada’s Bianca Andreescu will make her return to Wimbledon next week as the women’s main draw gets underway.

Andreescu advanced to the grass-court Grand Slam with a 6-3, 7-6 (4) third-round win over Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus on Thursday at the qualifying venue in Roehampton, roughly five kilometres northwest of the All England Club.

The 26-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., came from down a break twice in the second set to clinch her spot at Wimbledon after missing out last year with a second-round qualifying loss to fellow Canadian Carson Branstine.

Andreescu, a former world No. 4 and the 2019 U.S. Open champion, has made five previous trips to the Wimbledon main draw, making it as far as the third round in 2023 and 2024.

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She is the lone Canadian to advance out of qualifying after Toronto’s Katherine Sebov dropped a 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5) decision to Russia’s Iryna Shymanovich.

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The hard-fought loss ended Sebov’s quest for a first Wimbledon appearance, which started when she was a last-minute addition to the qualifying draw and included a comeback from 5-3 down in the deciding set in her second-round win over Germany’s Noma Noha Akugue.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 25, 2026.

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