Wimbledon finalist Gabriela Dabrowski reveals she played through 2024 after breast cancer diagnosis

Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski
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Former U.S. Open girls’s doubles champion Gabriela Dabrowski revealed on Tuesday she had performed by way of 2024 after present process remedy for breast most cancers. She delayed a part of that remedy so she might compete at Wimbledon the place she reached the doubles last.

“I do know this can come as a shock to many, however I’m OK and I will probably be OK,” the 32-year-old Canadian mentioned on social media. “Early detection saves lives. I can wholeheartedly agree with this.”

Dabrowski, ranked third in girls’s doubles, mentioned in an Instagram publish that she obtained the prognosis in April. She didn’t play that month and in Might due to surgical procedure, however returned to the courts in June.

Dabrowski mentioned there was “a slight delay in additional remedy” so she might compete at Wimbledon — the place she and New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe misplaced the ultimate in July to Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend — and the Paris Olympics, the place she gained the bronze medal in blended doubles with Felix Auger-Aliassime.

Dabrowski mentioned she had discovered a primary lump within the second half of 2023 and was initially informed to not fear about it.

“All of it appears surreal,” Dabrowski wrote, saying she now has a “higher grasp” of her remedy and unwanted side effects. “For a very long time I wasn’t prepared to show myself to the doable consideration and questions I’d have gotten earlier than. I wished to determine the whole lot out and deal with issues privately with solely these closest to me within the loop.”

Dabrowski and Routliffe gained the WTA Finals on the finish of this season. The pair additionally gained the U.S. girls’s doubles title in 2023.

“My mindset shifted from ‘I’ve to do that (play tennis and never waste my expertise)’ to ‘I get to do that.’ By this lens I discover it a lot simpler to search out pleasure in areas of my life I beforehand considered as a heavy weight,” she mentioned.

Dabrowski ended her publish by aiming an expletive at most cancers, whereas including “but in addition, thanks.”