Faraj Benlahoucine, Media365, published on Tuesday December 31, 2024 at 10:41 p.m.
Canadian Gabriela Dabrowski revealed that she battled cancer in 2024. However, that did not stop her from fighting on the courts as well, where she notably won a bronze medal at Paris 2024.
This Tuesday at dusk in the year 2024, Gabriela Dabrowski published a story that could not be more poignant via her account Instagram. The 32-year-old tennis player reveals that she fought breast cancer this year. “These are words we are never ready to hear and which, in an instant, turn your life or that of a loved one upside down” says the Canadian who then had to undergo two surgeries and undergo radiotherapy. However, in order not to miss certain important meetings of her season, the doubles specialist temporarily left medical care aside.
A choice which offered her the possibility of winning bronze at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Not in women's doubles despite her success alongside Leylah Fernandez against the French Clara Burel and Varvara Gracheva in the first round. It is in mixed doubles with Félix Auger-Aliassime that she climbed onto the podium of the Games at Roland Garros. Looking back, “it all seems surreal” she admits. “I find it much easier today to feel joy in certain aspects of my life that I previously perceived as a heavy burden. To cancer, I say: fuck you but also thank you” she concludes.
Winner of the Masters
In addition to its remarkable performance at Paris 2024, Gabriela Dabrowski won the Riyadh Masters with New Zealander Erin Routliffe against a pair composed of the Czech Katerina Siniakova and the American Taylor Townsend. In June she also triumphed on the lawn of Nottingham against the British Harriet Dart and the French Diane Parry. On the other hand, a month later, she failed in the Wimbledon final against Siniakova and Townsend.
