Rogers Cup: Andreescu win recalls memories of Vicki Berner

Rogers Cup: Andreescu win recalls memories of Vicki Berner

August 12, 2019 News

The historic run of Bianca Andreescu becoming the first Canadian woman in 50 years to win the Rogers Cup tennis tournament since Faye Urban of Windsor, Ont. won the 1969 Canadian Open, as it was then called, in Toronto provoked memories of the late Jewish Canadian tennis player Vicki Berner of Vancouver.

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