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The worst-case scenario came true: Eugenie Bouchard is out in Wimbledon's first round
WIMBLEDON – Well, the worst-case scenario occurred: Genie Bouchard lost in the first round at Wimbledon.
All the trees and bandwidth dedicated to the 21-year-old Canadian star’s struggles this season seemed to lead up to this defining moment as she attempted to defend her most illustrious result of 2014, the singles final here.
To paraphrase the semi-immortal words of Boris Becker, a man who did his fair share of winning on the lawns here during his career, she didn’t lose a war. Nobody died. Bouchard merely lost a tennis match.
Bouchard’s opponent Tuesday was a fairly anonymous qualifier named Ying-Ying Duan, whose musical name is about all most know about a a 6-foot-1,185-pound Chinese woman who turns 26 this week but who – with the exception of the Grand Slams – has played just two tournaments outside Asia over the last three years.
Duan’s 7-6 (4), 6-3 victory over the No. 12 seed was partly due to her solid play. It was, as most Bouchard defeats to lower-ranked players have been, far more about Bouchard.
Afterwards, the 21-year-old Canadian revealed the abdominal tear suffered at Eastbourne last week was diagnosed as a “Grade 2” tear.
“In my head, it was no question I was going to play, even though I was advised not to. It's just the way I am. It's so hard to be forced not to play tennis, especially at Wimbledon,” she said. “I'm disappointed because I lost. And it was probably not the smartest decision. But I knew I had to do it, so there was that.”
Bouchard practiced little in the leadup to the first-round match, and said she might have hit 10 serves earlier in the day during her warmup before Tuesday’s match.
“I was really trying to save myself. You know, it's not a nice feeling, feeling under‑prepared. But I knew that was the case,” she said. “I was going to try to go out there with what I had and not use it as an excuse. It's not an excuse because I chose to play. I just definitely felt off.”
The abdominal issue certainly didn’t show up on the radar gun. Bouchard regularly hit serves 105 miles an hour and faster; in fact, velocity-wise, she usually outgunned her much taller, stronger opponent. The defeat certainly didn’t hinge on the serve.
There were a few too many double-faults, but that’s not anything particularly novel for Bouchard in 2015. There also were far too many errors on the second hit of the ball – again, nothing out of the realm in terms of the reasons Bouchard has been losing too many tennis matches this season.
She lost this one, as she has lost so many, simply by not playing good tennis, trying to crush winners early in points, trying to return big serves with her toes on the baseline, on grass, even for a first serve from an opponent whose maximum capacity and abilities she did not know. The magic of Wimbledon could not act as a magic potion to kickstart a tough season; that will have to come somewhere else.
Not even "a whole lot of Bouchards," as she put it herself over the weekend, could help. Bouchard had her mother Julie, brother Will, sister Charlotte – and even Grandma Bouchard on hand. Absent, though, was American actor Jim Parsons, who seemed to be her good-luck charm a year ago as she made her run to the singles final.
"I feel like, you know, each time I had a loss, there were different reasons for each one. And today there was a different reason for this one," she said. "It's unfortunate that it happened at my favorite tournament of the year, that I won't get to play any more matches here this year. But I'm going to try to put it behind me and look forward."
There will be no tennis for awhile even though Bouchard, in theory, had plenty of tennis on her schedule.
She had signed up for doubles here with Lesia Tsurenko, although most probably expected it was unlikely she would play. There were reports out of Romania last week that she had accepted a wild card into the WTA event in Bucharest, to be held on clay the week after Wimbledon. That seems doubtful.
Bouchard also has a commitment to World Team Tennis’s Boston Lobsters in about three weeks’ time, and has entered the WTA event in Washington, D.C. owned by her former management company, Lagardère, just before the Rogers Cup in Toronto.
She didn’t have a timeframe for how long the abdominal would take to heal. “I’ll see with doctors and stuff. I'm not exactly sure. But I'll definitely, you know, take the time necessary. There's definitely a longer break now. So I'll try to use that to my advantage,” she said.
Bouchard said the abdominal issue she had at Indian Wells in March was classified as a Grade 1.5, somewhere between a Grade 1 (a few muscle fibres torn) and 2 (more extensive tears). (A Grade 3 tear means a complete rupture of the muscle).
So this one is more serious than that; after the previous issue Bouchard said she felt fine at her next tournament in Miami, which came about 10 days later.
She was asked about the future going forward with coach Sam Sumyk, given the results under his brief tenure have not been scintillating. He was, remember, the coach who was selected because he had the experience to help her take that "next step" to the top. Instead, Bouchard has taken a few steps backwards; she most surely will be outside the top-25 at the end of the tournament although exactly how far she'll fall is impossible to determine right now.
“Yes, we’ve definitely not started well at all. But, you know, I believe in him and he believes in me. As of right now, it’s still the plan,” she said, not exactly giving the Frenchman a ringing endorsement nor a massive vote of confidence.
“But yeah, there definitely has to be some improvement, some changes, because I expect to do a little better than this,” she added.
Bouchard also said she was going to be looking for a trainer “who can make me as strong as I can be so I don't get these injuries.” Former trainer Scott Byrnes, who had been the longest-standing Team Bouchard member since the departure of former coach Nick Saviano, left after Fed Cup and is here at Wimbledon working with American Madison Keys.
