Another tough loss for Eugenie Bouchard in Miami, this time to No. 113 Tatjana Maria

Genie Bouchard managed to play just three points against German qualifier Tatjana Maria before heavy rains on Key Biscayne washed out her second-round match at the Miami Open Friday night.

When the players returned to court Saturday afternoon, the result was a bit of a disaster.

Bouchard was defeated by Maria 6-0, 7-6 (4) and is out of the Miami Open in her first match.

Her many fans back home were unable to watch it; originally on a television court, the schedule shuffle necessitated by Friday's rain moved the match to a smaller court, with no television cameras. Perhaps it was just as well.

The first set took just 31 minutes. Bouchard had suffered just three bagels at the WTA level before this one, all of them on rather more daunting stages. She lost the second set of the Wimbledon final to Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic 6-0. And at home at the Rogers Cup in Montreal last summer, on a night when there was clearly a lot more going on than tennis, she lost to American Shelby Rogers 6-0, 2-6, 6-0.

Eh Games's eyewitnesses down in Miami report at least two smashed racquets, as well as some tears while the 21-year-old Canadian was serving.

All of that sounds rather similar to Bouchard's match two weeks ago at Indian Wells, where she lost to another qualifier, Lesia Tsurenko. That one, though, featured a collapse after Bouchard led 4-1 in the third set. Against Maria, Bouchard was always fighting an uphill battle although after taking a 3-1 lead in the tiebreaker, she won just one more point the rest of the way.

The 27-year-old Maria, who had daughter Charlotte just before Christmas in 2013, is a quick, crafty player whose career high was No. 64 back in 2009. She has 27 titles on the minor-league ITF circuit, and one WTA Tour doubles title (in Quebec City in 2012 with Kristina Mladenovic).

"Even when I was down 5-3, I think she was never really in the game. So it was important for me to stay positive and try to win it in two sets," Maria told the WTA Tour. "I only played my game. It was nothing really special that I did. I had a feeling she wasn't comfortable against my style." No word from Bouchard; there reportedly were no media requests for her after the match (and no Canadian journalists on site).

Maria mostly uses a slice on the backhand side. The conditions in Miami were reportedly very windy, and that combination certainly would seem to put a crimp in Bouchard's aggressive style.

Add that to a forearm injury suffered in September, and a strained abdominal during that loss to Tsurenko two weeks ago – not to mention everything else swirling around Bouchard Inc. these days – it's clear that the Canadian is not in the best place at the moment. This is not an opponent that a Bouchard firing on all cylinders would have a ton of trouble with.

The Miami Open was going to be an opportunity to see some intriguing potential matches involving Bouchard. Had she beaten Maria, she would have faced Switzerland's Belinda Bencic, an even younger player (she turned 18 two weeks ago) who also was highly-touted from a young age.

Down the road could have been a potential match against American Sloane Stephens, who has played well on this American hard-court swing and is now coached by Bouchard's longtime mentor, Nick Saviano.

Stephens defeated countrywoman Madison Keys in the second round, in straight sets, no less. Keys was a surprise Australian Open semi-finalist this year; Bouchard did it last year, and Stephens did the same thing in 2013.

After that big splash, Stephens has suffered her fair share of growing pains amid the big expectations. Bouchard clearly is experiencing the same thing. And Keys, who has played little since Australia, is starting to feel it as well. She was in torrents of tears on a changeover late in the match against Stephens.

It's not eloquently stated. But no doubt Bouchard can completely relate.

In limited action this season, Bouchard has lost to Maria Sharapova in Australia (not a shocker) and Mona Barthel (then ranked No. 42) in her first match in Antwerp, shortly after hiring new coach Sam Sumyk. Then she lost to qualifier Tsurenko at Indian Wells (then ranked No. 85, currently No. 56 after winning six matches and reaching the quarter-finals there out of the qualifying). Now, Maria (No. 113 but back into the top 100 with her effort so far in Miami).

Continuing her pattern so far this season, the Canadian has very little tennis planned through Wimbledon. She is not in the field in Charleston for the Family Circle Cup in 10 days, where she reached the semi-finals a year ago and has very good memories – although it's always possible she might ask for a wild card.

The next tournament on the Canadian's schedule appears to be Stuttgart, played indoors on red clay the week of April 20. She also will play the big WTA Premier events in Madrid and Rome, but as yet does not appear to be planning to return to Nürnberg, Germany to defend her first – and so far, only – WTA Tour title the week before the French Open.

Bouchard also has yet to enter any of the grass-court warmup events in the three weeks between the French Open and Wimbledon. But the entry deadlines, which are six weeks before an event, haven't yet passed for the grass-court tournaments or for Nürnberg.