Eugénie Bouchard

Eugenie "Genie" Bouchard (born February 25, 1994) is a Canadian professional tennis player. On November 21, 2011, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 301. She is currently playing on the Junior Circuit and on the ITF Circuit.

Early life

She has a younger brother, William, a sister, Charlotte, and a non-identical twin sister, Beatrice, and her parents are Julie and Mike. Eugénie started playing tennis at age 5 and she is a member of Tennis Canada's National Training Centre in Montreal.

Tennis career

2005

She participated at the tournament Open Super 12 in Auray, France.

2008–2010

She captured the ITF singles and doubles titles in Costa Rica and also the All Canadian ITF singles title in Burlington in 2008. In 2009 and at only 15, she won the Canadian under-18 indoor championship in Toronto. At this event, Eugénie overpowered fellow Quebecker Marianne Jodoin 6–4, 7–5 to become, at 15 years and a month, one of the youngest winners of the indoor event. She won her first professional main draw match at Caserta, Italy, defeating No. 798 Frederica Grazioso, 6–4 7–6(9). Also in 2009, she won the Pan American Closed ITF Championships, one of her biggest wins to date in juniors.^[1]

2011

At the Australian Open, she lost in the semifinals of the singles junior event against fifth seed and good friend Mónica Puig by the score of 6–4, 6–4. A week later, she won her first professional title at the ITF $25,000 Burnie International, where she defeated fellow 16 year old qualifier Zheng Saisai 6–4, 6–3 in the final.^[2][3] She won her second professional title on April 10 at the ITF $10,000 in Šibenik, Croatia. She defeated qualifier Jessica Ginier in the final by the score of 6–2, 6–0. She missed the French Open due to an injury. At Wimbledon, Bouchard lost in the quarterfinals of the singles junior event to the number three seed Irina Khromacheva 6–2, 6–2 but won the doubles junior event with her partner Grace Min. She also reached a week later her first professional doubles final with Megan Moulton-Levy at the $50,000 ITF tournament in Waterloo, where she lost 6–3, 3–6, 10–7. At the end of July, she beat the 114th ranked player Alison Riske 6–3, 6–2 at the Citi Open in College Park. It was her first WTA main draw win. With that win, she had the chance to meet number 2 seed Nadia Petrova in the second round, but lost 6–2, 6–2.

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 2 (2–0)

Doubles: 1 (0–1)

References

External links

• Official website
• Eugénie Bouchard at the Women's Tennis Association
• Eugénie Bouchard at the International Tennis Federation
• Eugénie Bouchard at the Fed Cup
• Eugénie Bouchard on Twitter
• Kelly, Tom (January 23, 2011). "Junior watch: Getting to know Eugenie Bouchard". Australian Open. http://www.australianopen.com/en_AU/news/articles/2011-01-23/201101231295754023582.html. Retrieved February 9, 2011.