“I’ll be okay”
Cancer: Tennis professional makes diagnosis public
01/01/2025 – 09:05 a.mReading time: 1 min.
She is among the world’s best in doubles and had a successful 2024. But now an Olympic medalist has reported a health problem.
Canadian tennis player Gabriela Dabrowski has made a breast cancer diagnosis public at the end of 2024. The 32-year-old world-class doubles player announced on Instagram that she had postponed parts of the treatment in order to be able to complete the past season.
Dabrowski reached the doubles final at Wimbledon with her partner Erin Routliffe from New Zealand in the summer and then won bronze in mixed doubles with Felix Auger-Aliassime at the Olympic Games in Paris.
“I know this will be a shock to many, but I am okay and will be okay,” Dabrowski wrote. The first signs of the disease appeared in the second half of 2023. At first she was told not to worry. In September of last year she won the doubles competition with Routliffe at the US Open.
Her view of many things has changed, Dabrowski wrote, explaining: “My perspective has shifted from: ‘I have to do this’ to ‘I can do that.’ With this perspective, I find it so much easier to have fun in areas of my life to find life that I previously viewed as a burden.” At the end of this season, the world number three won the doubles title with Routliffe at the WTA Finals.