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As many and myriad issues have conspired to keep 2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescu off the court in recent years, one element is undeniable.

There’s a bit of a Bibi Curse in the mix, as well.

The 24-year-old’s latest comeback was due to start at the WTA 500 in Merida, Mexico, which will take place the last week of February ahead of Indian Wells.

But that plan is scrapped, as Andreescu has had an … emergency appendectomy.

It’s never not something, it feels like.

Here’s her Instagram announcement about it.

Last match in October 2024

Currently ranked No. 130, Andreescu’s last tournament was the Toray Pan Pacific Open in October where she won a round against qualifier Mei Yamaguchi, advanced when No. 2 seed Beatriz Haddad Maia retired after three games, and was beaten 6-2, 6-1 by No. 9 seed Katie Boulter in the quarterfinals.

The week prior, she lost in the first round in Osaka to Greet Minnen.

Prior to that, she went out in her openers in Toronto, Cincinnati and the US Open; in New York, she lost for the third time in THREE bad-luck Grand Slam meetings with Jasmine Paolini in 2024.

The Canadian had plans to begin the 2025 season Down Under. But she ended up postponing her start and withdrawing from Auckland and the Australia Open qualifying, as we reported back in December.

Bianca Andreescu a scratch for the Aussie summer

Last full season in 2018

Andreescu played 10 events in 2024, including the Olympics, after only starting the season at Roland Garros.

In 2023, she began in Adelaide before the Australian Open. But her season ended with a first-round loss in Montreal in early August.

In 2022, she only began at the Stuttgart tournament in April, but played a fairly full schedule after that.

She played 13 tournaments in 2021, although nothing between her finals effort in Miami (where she injured her foot) and Strasbourg, where she retired in the quarterfinals the week before Roland Garros.

Andreescu didn’t play at all in 2020, with an ongoing knee injury.

In 2019, after winning that US Open title, the played the China Open in Beijing. She then returned to China for the WTA Finals a month later – only to retire in her second round-robin match.

To sum up, she hasn’t played a full season since 2018.

Even in 2019, she played just one match between Miami in March and Toronto in August.

In 2018, when she turned 18 and began the year ranked No. 189, Andreescu played 20 events in all –a mix of $25,000 and $60,000 ITFs and Slam qualifying tournaments, and a few bigger events.