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Post by Admin on Feb 16, 2019 17:44:46 GMT
Former World No.5 Eugenie Bouchard believes she is back on the right track, the Canadian has told The National's Reem Abulleil ahead of next week's Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.
That doesn't necessarily mean trying to live up to her career-best results of 2014, in which the 24-year-old reached the Wimbledon final and Australian Open and Roland Garros semifinals.
"I really don't want to look back and try to be myself from five years ago," she explained. "I want to be the best version of myself today and just always give myself a chance. Week after week if you keep pushing and keep giving yourself the chance, then one week you are going to break through. I have that belief and I just have to keep working towards it."
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Post by Admin on Feb 18, 2019 17:55:13 GMT
Wild card Eugenie Bouchard of Canada made a successful Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships main-draw debut, easing past Belarusian Vera Lapko, 6-3, 6-4, to advance to a second-round meeting with former World No.1 Simona Halep.
In the first meeting between the two players, it was World No.80 Bouchard who ousted World No.60 Lapko after one hour and 20 minutes of play. 2014 Wimbledon runner-up Bouchard matched Lapko in winners, but Lapko fired 35 unforced errors in the match, 14 more than the Canadian's miscue count.
"It’s just about going out there and trying to give it my all and give myself the best chance, and I don’t want to have any regrets after, no matter what happens," Bouchard said about her upcoming clash with Halep. "That’s really my number one goal."
Bouchard broke Lapko’s serve in the first game of the match, but Lapko was able to survive another break point at 3-2 and subsequently got back level at 3-3 with strong returning. However, the Belarusian’s hard work was undone by unforced errors in the following game, as she dropped serve again to give Bouchard a 4-3 advantage.
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Post by Admin on Feb 22, 2019 17:47:56 GMT
http://instagram.com/p/BuB1c4fgMU5 Eugenie Bouchard takes notice on Instagram of the support she gets from her fans. So it’s not a surprise one tried for the ultimate acknowledgment. According to WTA Insider reporter Courtney Nguyen, a fan yelled out a mid-match proposal to Bouchard on Wednesday during a tense moment in a loss to Simona Halep in the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. “PSA: 5-4* in the tiebreak is not the time to yell ‘Genie when will you marry me? Simona said no.’ The Halep Glare was choice,” Nguyen wrote on Twitter. Speaking after the hard-fought, 7-6 (7-4), 6-4 win, Halep said she could hear everything going on in the stands, so she was never going to miss that romantic proposal. “I hear everything, every word,” Halep said. “Someone said they were going to miss the plane tonight and I have to finish faster. I don’t know if it’s positive for me during the match, but I took it. I lost the game, but then I won [the match].” Bouchard can take heart from the loss, knowing she pushed a grand-slam winner to her limits as she aims to reinvent herself as a genuine threat to the best in the world after years in tennis limbo.
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Post by Admin on Mar 14, 2019 18:45:10 GMT
Remember the guy who landed a date with a smokin' hot tennis star all 'cause the Patriots won the Super Bowl???
The incredibly unlikely story of Genie Bouchard's popular fling with a 20-year-old fan is heading to the silver screen with a movie adaptation ... the Canadian pro confirmed Tuesday.
It all went down after the self-proclaimed Bouchard fan, John Goehrke, tweeted at Genie during Super Bowl 51 when the Patriots were trailing the Falcons by 25 points in the 3rd quarter.
Bouchard will act as executive producer on the Jonathan Abrams flick ... which will focus on "dating and love in the modern digital age, asking if a relationship born on social media can survive the glare of the public eye," according to Deadline.
At the time, people wondered if the whole thing was for clout ... but after being spotted several times together -- including a bikini beach date -- and now a movie??? Whatever this is, it's awesome.
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Post by Admin on Apr 6, 2019 19:26:46 GMT
Canadian tennis player Eugenie Bouchard has withdrawn from upcoming tournaments in an effort to get healthy and take a break.
Eugenie Bouchard has reportedly stepped away from the tennis courts for the time being. According to a tennis.life posting, the 25-year-old Canadian is taking time to get healthy. Genie has shared social media photos like this one with her mother in Montreal, showing her spending more time with family. When will Bouchard be back to the 2019 WTA Tour?
This break from tennis is for an undetermined amount of time. We don’t know when Bouchard will be back. Currently, she steps away while sitting in the world number 76 position in women’s singles tennis. The clay court season is kicking off and Genie recently withdrew from action at the Monterrey Open.
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