And yet there was Bouchard, still a teenager and yet all of a sudden in the dang semi-final of a Grand Slam. She didn’t, it would turn out, and the TV reporter version of The Amazing Race would not come to pass. This is a (very) long way of saying to Canada’s latest teen tennis phenom, Bianca Andreescu: thanks for the heads-up this time. After beating world-number-three Caroline Wozniacki in the second round, Andreescu defeated Venus Williams in the quarterfinals on Friday. She had a chance to join Andreescu in the semis in Auckland, but lost to two-seed Julia Goerges.

Source: National Post January 04, 2019 17:48 UTC