Wimbledon finalist, Gabriela Dabrowski, has just revealed that she played through the 2024 season while receiving urgent treatment for breast cancer.
The 32-year-old Canadian had kept her diagnosis in April a secret but detailed the battle she has been through in a lengthy Instagram post. Dabrowski said: “I know this will come as a shock to many, but I am OK, and I will be OK.
“Early detection saves lives.” Having first found a lump in the spring of 2023, which she was told was nothing to worry about, she had a scan a year later and was informed she had cancer.
Dabrowski did not play a match in April and May, but she did return in June, winning her first tournament back with partner Erin Routliffe in Nottingham. She delayed treatment in order to compete at Wimbledon, where she and Routliffe finished as runners-up, and the Olympics, while the pair ended the season by winning the WTA Finals, leaving Dabrowski ranked third in the world.
