Wanda Dabrowski stands beside the plaque at the public tennis courts at Russel Boyd Park, near the family home. The courts are now named after her daughter Gabriela Dabrowski, who grew up playing there.
Gaby Dabrowski's mother looks back on the neighbourhood tennis courts that helped her daughter develop into the professional player she is today.Wanda Dabrowski stands beside the plaque at the public tennis courts at Russel Boyd Park, near the family home. The courts are now named after her daughter Gaby Dabrowski, who grew up playing there. Wanda Dabrowski remembers countless hours spent at the public tennis courts in Russell Boyd Park.
Before she became a professional tennis player, Gaby grew up in Blossom Park. She and her parents lived only two blocks away from the courts that have since been named in her honour. The family was hosting a friend visiting from France with her son. One day that summer, the kids took a trip down to the public courts."When Gaby came home from playing that day, she said to her dad, 'Dad, there was a man that asked me at the tennis court where I take lessons,'" Wanda recalled.Wanda and her husband Yurek Dabrowski enrolled the young athlete in tennis lessons at the now shuttered Ottawa Athletic Club.
As a bonus, the school was within walking distance of the public courts, making it easy to fit in some extra practice.In 2018, the City of Ottawa officially named the Russell Boyd Park facility the Gabriela Dabrowski Tennis Courts.The City of Ottawa officially named the public courts in honour of Gabriela Dabrowski in 2018.
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