Seam Canadian tennis star Gabriela Dabrowski is approaching one year’s anniversary of her cancer diagnosis, the three-time Grand Slam champion revealed in a recent interview that the life-changing news she received in the spring of 2024 changed her view of life for the better.
Dabrowski who won her first Olympic medal In Paris just months after being diagnosed with breast cancer, it was only revealed in an Instagram post on New Year’s Eve that, despite all the success she had seen that season, she had kept a secret.
Gabriela Dabrowski from Canada in action at the US Open on August 29, 2024. (Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images)
She had first observed a lump in her left breast during a “self -exam” in 2023, but it was later dismissed by another doctor. The following year, in the spring, a WTA doctor suggested that she get another evaluation, and after a series of tests Dabrowski was diagnosed with breast cancer.
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“I don’t regret what the doctor told me back then [in 2023]Because I’m really happy with how my year turned out what I learned what I experienced, ” She told olympics.com Last week. “It’s a recognition that cancer is something that is really messy and it can be very scary.”
Unknown by her fans underwent Dabrowski treatment, but remained on the field. She won two doubles titles, including the WTA Tour final, and earned her first Olympic medal in the summer matches. She also reached a new career mound in double ranking that came in at No. 3.
Gabriela Dabrowski celebrates after winning the bronze medal in mixed doubles during Olympic summer matches in Paris 2024. (Amber Searls-has Today Sports)
Tennis star Gabriela Dabrowski reveals she was playing in Wimbledon, the Olympics while she fought against breast cancer
For Dabrowski, her view of life changed after her diagnosis. She said that cancer “shaken” her to understand “what it meant to be alive.”
“Cancer had to happen To me; Something had to shake me and cancer did it, ”she told Olympics.com.
“It shaken me. That’s not to say that I wasn’t grateful to my life before, or the people in that experiences (
From the left, Gabriela Dabrowski (CAN) and Erin Routliffe (NZL) and Katerina Siniakova (CZE) and Taylor Townsend (USA) are with the finalists and championship trophies respectively after their Wimbledon Ladies’ Doubles Final in 2024. (Geoff Burke-usa Today Sports)
Dabrowski came up with his journey with the hope of raising attention to early detection and sharing her story as a survivor.
“Early in my diagnosis, I was afraid that cancer became part of my identity forever,” she wrote in her post from December. “I don’t feel like that anymore. It’s a privilege to be able to call myself a survivor.”
