{"id":55800,"date":"2023-03-27T23:52:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T03:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=55800"},"modified":"2023-03-27T23:52:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T03:52:58","slug":"bianca-andreescu-ankle-injury-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/03\/27\/bianca-andreescu-ankle-injury-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8221;Not Again&#8221;\u2013\u2013Bianca Andreescu Screams In Pain After Suffering Horrific Ankle Injury In Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bianca Andreescu suffered a horrific ankle injury in her fourth-round match at the 2023 Miami Open. With Andreescu trailing by a set to Russia&#8217;s Ekaterina Alexandrova, the Canadian rolled her ankle in the third game of the second set.<\/p>\n<p>Andreescu was inconsolable as she screamed frightfully in front of a small pocket of fans on the Grandstand court including her mother who was in tears. The former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/us-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">US Open<\/a> champion required lengthy on-court assistance before being escorted away using a wheelchair.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Devastating. Happened 10 feet away from me. I was sitting right on that baseline. \ud83e\udd7a.  All good thoughts for Andreescu. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lm81zUEjvD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/lm81zUEjvD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephanie Myles (@OpenCourt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OpenCourt\/status\/1640555093014593539?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It is a massive setback for Andreescu, who has endured years of injury torment throughout her career. Since her breakout 2019 season, Andreescu has played in a limited capacity due to a succession of injuries. Towards the end of 2021, she took a six-month break from tennis for mental health reasons, alluding that she almost quit the sport.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Standing ovation for Bianca Andreescu in Miami. <\/p>\n<p>Her mom is in tears. And you can see the look on Bianca\u2019s face as she leaves the court in a wheel chair. <\/p>\n<p>She looks so broken. No one deserves this.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone send her your prayers tonight \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FxxG7iQYgZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/FxxG7iQYgZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1640551101425659904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3><strong>&#8220;Not Again&#8221; Andreescu Screamed Moments After Ankle Roll<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Andreescu looked to have hit her stride in the past week. She strung three successive wins at a WTA 1000 tournament for the first time since Rome last season. In the catalog of Andreescu&#8217;s injuries, this is undoubtedly a gut-wrencher. She winced uncontrollably in pain and screamed &#8220;not again!&#8221; as she was wheeled away from the court.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd was in disbelief and dumbfounded. Her mother was tearing up before being comforted by a close family member in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>None of the broadcast partners of the tournament released any footage of the injury, but there are parallels to be drawn to the gruesome ankle ligament <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/06\/03\/alexander-zverev-french-open-injury-rafael-nadal\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">damage Alexander Zverev suffered<\/a> at last year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/french-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Roland Garros<\/a>. The German never played again for the remainder of the 2022 season.<\/p>\n<p>Andreescu retired, giving Alexandrova safe passage into the quarterfinal where she will face Petra Kvitova.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bianca Andreescu suffered a horrific ankle injury in her fourth-round match at the 2023 Miami Open. With Andreescu trailing by a set to Russia&#8217;s Ekaterina Alexandrova, the Canadian rolled her ankle in the third game of the second set. Andreescu was inconsolable as she screamed frightfully in front of a small pocket of fans on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":55668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,4],"tags":[85,3553,4184,2760],"class_list":["post-55800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","category-wta","tag-alexander-zverev","tag-bianca-andreescu","tag-ekaterina-alexandrova","tag-miami-open"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}