Dabrowski opens up about how she started with tennis

Currently, 28-years-old Gabriela Dabrowski is one of the best WTA doubles players. She reached quarterfinals at the Australian Open, French Open and US Open. She also reached the final at Wimbledon and currently sits at the 7th place in the WTA Doubles Ranking. Now, the Canadian spoke about how she started with tennis.

"I first picked up tennis racquet kind of accidentally. Nobody in my family played tennis, which is a bit of a different sort of story, because a lot of tennis players, either their parents played or their siblings played. So they were at the tennis club with their family and they just kind of joined along. For me, it was not like that at all," Dabrowski said.

"Basically, I was seven years old and it was a summer when both my parents were working. One of my dad's best friends, came over from Poland with her son, who was three years older than me, and kind of looked after me while I wasn't in school. So that summer, we picked up some racquets and we went to the park, which was just by my house. And we started try to hit the ball back and forth. There was a man who had come to the park and he'd asked me where I took lessons. And I was like 7. I had no idea what was going on. I was like, I don't know," said Dabrowski.

"But I told my dad later that night when he came back from work. I was like, Dad, this man at the park, he had a beard, and he was asking me where I take lessons. Initially, my dad was like, what (laughs)? Who is this guy? He was very concerned. So he came and the man was there. They got chatting. My dad didn't even realize that we had started playing tennis. But the man said, oh, if you haven't put your daughter in lessons maybe you should because she looks like she has pretty good hand-eye coordination," Dabrowski said.

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