Gabriela Dabrowski, a three-time Grand Slam doubles champion, an Olympics mixed doubles medalist and the WTA Tour Finals women’s doubles champion has revealed that she played through a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment throughout the 2024 tennis season.
“How can something so small cause such a big problem? This is the question I asked myself when I was diagnosed with breast cancer back in mid-April,” Dabrowski, 32, wrote on Instagram.
Dabrowski found a lump in her left breast in spring 2023, but a doctor told her not to be concerned a few months later, she said. In spring 2024, a WTA doctor advised her to undergo a mammogram, before a biopsy confirmed the cancer diagnosis. She underwent two surgeries and a series of recovery treatments all while continuing to play tennis, and took a “slight delay in further treatment” to compete at Wimbledon and the Olympics. She reached the women’s doubles final at Wimbledon with partner Erin Routliffe, where they lost to Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend, before she won the bronze medal in mixed doubles for Canada with Felix Auger-Aliassime.
Dabrowski ended the season by winning the WTA Tour Finals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with Routliffe, taking home over £800,000 between them. During the tournament, Dabrowski hit pink…
