Eugenie Bouchard to withdraw from tennis in Canadian Open in Montreal

Eugenie Bouchard, the finalist of Wimbledon 2014 and the former world No. 5, will withdraw 1,000 Canadian Open in Montreal from tennis at the WTA, which begins later this month.

The 31 -year -old Bouchard, who was born in Montreal, announced her final professional event in a post on X Wednesday. “You will know when it is time. For me it is now. It is now that it all started: Montreal,” she wrote.

Tennis Canada confirmed that Bouchard would receive a main dropout game card for the event that is among the Grand Slams. Bouchard will play her first game in the first round either on July 27th or 28th.

Bouchard, who has not currently substituted, has played two WTA tour plays at the Guadalajara Open 2023 in the past two years at the Guadalajara Open 2023, where she received a wild card. She entered the Hall of Fame Open in Newport last week, Ri

Bouchard also received a qualified wild card for the Canadian open of the past year, but lost in the first of two games to win to get into the main release. This year the women's event took place in Toronto. The events of men and women alternate between the two cities from year to year.

Bouchard's Breakout year came in 2014. When she lost this Wimbledon final against Petra Kvitová 6: 3, 6-0, she also reached the semi-finals of the Australian and French opening. Open, as well as Angelique Kerber and Simona Halep on the way to the Wimbledon final. She also reached the final of the first Wuhan Open in China, where she lost again against Kvitová.

Bouchard's shape dipped the following year, but it made the fourth round of the US Open. Before her match against Roberta Vinci, she slipped into the cleaning fluid in the room of a trainer and suffered a concussion. Bouchard sued the US Tennis Association (Usta) for damage; The two parties reached a confidential settlement in 2018.

Until 2017, Bouchard, albeit jokingly, was very conscious of the pressure to be only Canada's leading women's players. At this year's Canadian Open, at which the US Open Champion and Landsmann 2019, Bianca Andreescu, made her debut as Wild Card at 17, said Bouchard that she could be “someone else” to “bear the load of Canada”.

“I'm relatively young, but I feel old in a way,” said Bouchard during the event at a press conference.

“I've been on tour for a few years. I think it is important to feel the pressure of time a little, take action and not just lean back and relax and let yourself be over for years.”

Although he reached two WTA tournament finals in 2020 and 2021, Bouchard was falling into the ranking, a combination of injuries and shape, including 17 months due to shoulder surgery in 2021 and 2022. In 2023 she won two double games when Canada won the Billie Jean King Cup for the first time.

When Bouchard's tennis appearance became more sporadada, she turned to pickleball and took part in the “pickleball slam” with the US Open Champion from 2003 against the eight-time great champion Andre Agassi and 22-time Major-Champion Steffi Graf in the “pickleball slam” at the beginning of this year.

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