Bouchard, Eugenie

Eugenie is one of four children in the family of Michel Bouchard and Julie Leclair, she has a twin sister, Beatrice, as well as another sister - Charlotte and brother - William.

Bouchard in tennis since the age of six. On the court, she prefers vigorous action at the back line, preferring to hit the rising ball, the Canadian has a strong serve. Favorite cover - hard.

In 2006-09, Eugenie trained at Nick Saviano Center in Florida , and then began to work with specialists from the Canadian National Tennis Center in Montreal .

Carier start.

The first performances of Bushar at ITF tournaments came in 2008, when Canada was 14 years old. In February 2011, she first won the title at ITF's 25,000th-person in Australia. In April of that year, she won the 10-thousandth in Croatia. She then made her debut for Canada in the qualifying rounds of the Federation Cup . In July, in a duet with the representative of the United States, Grace Min Eugenie won the pair competition of the junior Wimbledon tournament . In July, she first played in the WTA tour , receiving a special invitation to the tournament in College Park . Bouchard was able to win the opening match against Alison Risk , and in the second she lost to the final winner of that tournament Nadezhda Petrova .

In April 2012, Bouchard, in an alliance with Jessica Pegula, won the ITF 50,000th paired competitions in Dothan . In May, she won two 10-thousand-strong ITFs in Sweden. In June, Eugénie was able to win singles and doubles at the junior competitions of the Wimbledon tournament. In the singles finals among the girls, she beat the Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina - 6-2, 6-2. In doubles, Bushar shared her success with the American Taylor Townsend . In July, a Canadian athlete won the 25-thousandth ITF in Canada and reached the quarter-finals of the WTA tournaments for the first time, having managed to do so at a tournament in Washington . In November, she won the 50,000th ITF at her homeland in Canada.

In 2013, Bouchard attracted attention with her performances. The first noticeable result of the season was getting into the quarterfinals of the Charleston tournament to which she got through qualification. In the third round of that tournament, she first beat the top 10 tennis player Samantu Stosur (on the opponent’s refusal in the second set) and went to the quarterfinals. This allowed the Canadian to get into the first hundred of the world ranking. In May, she was able to reach the semifinals of the tournament in Strasbourg , and also for the first time in the French Open she appeared in the main draw of the Grand Slam tournaments . her result at Roland Garros was an exit in the second round, where she lost to Maria Sharapova . At the Wimbledon tournament in the second round, Bouchard was able to beat Ana Ivanovich against No. 12 in the world and go to the third round, where she already lost to Karla Suarez Navarro .

In July 2013, Eugenie reached the pair finals in Washington in partnership with Taylor Townsend. In August, at the Premier 5 series tournament in Cincinnati , in the second rand she first met the current first racket of the world Serena Williams and was even able to win the first set of their meeting, but lost the next two (6-4, 2-6, 2-6). At the first in his career at the US Open, in the second round , Bushar lost to Angelica Kerber . In September, she reached the semi-finals in Quebec and the quarter-finals in Tokyo . In October, at a tournament in Osaka, Bushar first played in the final of the single player tournament and lost Samantha Stosur in it with a score of 6-3, 5-7, 2-6. Thanks to her successful performances in the 2013 season, she was awarded the Rookie of the Year Award from the Women's Tennis Association and took 32nd place in the ranking by the end of the year.

2014-16 Final at Wimbledon.

Beginning of the 2014 season, Bushar was very successful. At the debut in the main draw of the Australian Open, she was able to reach the semifinals. In the struggle to enter the decisive match, she lost to Li Na . A performance in Australia allowed a Canadian tennis player to enter the Top 20 of the world ranking. In March, at the prestigious Indian Wells tournament in the third round match, Bouchard was able to beat the top ten tennis player Sarah Errani . In April, she reached the semi-finals of a clay tournament in Charleston, beating another tennis player from the Top 10 Elena Yankovich in the quarter finals. In early May, she reached the quarter-finals in Oeiras , and at the end of the month, Eugenie was able to win the first WTA title in her career. It happened at a tournament in Nuremberg , where in the finals she beat Karolina Plishkova with a score of 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. At the French Open, Bouchard defeated Angelica Kerber (6-1, 6-2) in the fourth round match of the fourth round. In the quarterfinal, she was expected by Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro and Bouchard was able to defeat her (7-6 (4), 2-6, 7-5). Maria Sharapova, who won in three sets (4-6, 7-5, 6-2), was able to stop the tennis player from Canada in the semifinals. Even better, Bouchard was able to perform at the Wimbledon tournament, where during the tournament she defeated four seeded tennis players and for the first time in her career reached the Grand Slam final. In the fight for the prestigious trophy, she lost to Czech Petra Kvitova . The result of Wimbledon allowed the 20-year-old Canadian for the first time in her career to rise in the top 10. taking the 8th line.

At the 2014 US Open, Bouchard did not enter the Grand Slam semifinal for the first time this season, losing to Ekaterina Makarova in the fourth round. At the end of September, she reached the final at the premiere tournament in Wuhan , defeating Carolina Wozniacki (6-2, 6-3) in the 1/2 final of No. 7 in the world. In the decisive match, Eugenie lost to Petra Kvitova (3-6, 4-6). In October, Canada entered the top five single ratings. At the end of the season, she performed at the Final Tournament of the Year . Eugenie lost all three matches in her group: Serena Williams, Simone Halep and Ane Ivanovich. At the end of 2014, she took 7th place in the women's classification and received another WTA award - this time for “the best progress of the season”.

At the Australian Open 2015, Bouchard reached the quarter finals, where Maria Sharapova stood in her way. At Roland Garros in May, she dropped out in the first round and lost her place in the Top 10. At the Wimbledon tournament, last year’s finalist also dropped out at the start of the tournament. losing to the tennis player of the second hundred Duan Yinying . At the US Open, Bouchard was able to enter the fourth round, but did not enter the match against Roberta Vinci because of an injury. The season of 2015 was not the best for Canada and its match balance for the year was negative (12-18). In the ranking, she lost 41 positions and occupied the 48th line at the end of the season.

2016, Bouchard begins with a quarterfinal at a tournament in Shenzhen . Then she was able to reach the finals of the tournament in Hobart . In the fight for the title, Eugenie lost to Frenchwoman Alize Korn - 1-6, 2-6. In the Australian Championship, she lost in the second round to Agnieszka Radwanska . In early March, Bouchard played in another WTA finale. This time at the tournament in Kuala Lumpur, she loses in a bitter struggle to Elina Svitolina with a score of 7-6 (5) 4-6 5-7. In May, at a tournament in Rome in a second-round match, Bouchard defeated No. 2 in the world for Angelica Kerber, but in the next round she dropped out of the tournament. At Roland Garros, she lost in the second round, and at Wimbledon in the third. The next victory in the representative of the Top 10, Bouchard won at the tournament in Toronto over Dominica Tsibulkova . In the summer, she took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . In the first round match, Eugénie defeated the strong American Sloan Stevens , and in the second she could not cope with the second racket of the world, Angelica Kerber. In doubles in an alliance with Gabriela Dabrowski, she also completed performances in the second round. At the US Open, the Canadian athlete at the start of the tournament was beaten by Czech Katerina Sinyakova .

2017

In January 2017, Bouchard entered the semifinals of the tournament in Sydney . In the Australian Championship, Canada in the third round lost to Coco Vandevege . In May, she played in the quarter finals of a tournament in Madrid . At the French Open, Bouchard lost to Anastasia Sevastova in the second round.

2018

At the end of January, having received a special invitation to the tournament in Kaohsiung (Taiwan) , Eugenie played in the quarter finals.

As of July 13, 2019

In order to prevent confusion and doubling of accounts, the information in this table is adjusted only after the end of the participation of this player.

• Eugenie is the first Canadian tennis player to win the junior grand slam singles tournament among girls. ^[five]
• Eugenie is the first athlete in the history of Canadian tennis who managed to make it to the finals of the adult Grand Slam tournament in the women's singles. ^[6]
• In February 2017, Eugénie on Twitter lost a dispute to her fan following a Super Bowl LI match between Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots , according to which she had to date him. The meeting eventually took place ^[7] /

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