Genie Bouchard's first WTA Tour Finals experience ends with a drubbing at the hands of Serena Williams

SINGAPORE – It wasn't the first year-end championships experience Canadian Genie Bouchard was hoping for, not even close.

And it ended Thursday night, as it began Monday night, with a rather emphatic defeat.

The last call came against Serena Williams, who had looked so helpless and forlorn just 24 hours before in a loss to Simona Halep. But the real Serena was on hand for this one, and after Bouchard won the first game, she didn't win another in a 6-1, 6-0 loss that took just under 58 minutes.

Here are some pics from courtside.

Bouchard began the match serving, quickly falling into a love-40 hold before managing to hold. She then had a break point on Williams's serve to take a 2-0 lead. She couldn't convert, and that was as good as it was going to be; Williams wowed the crowd with one serve that went 205 km/h (that went long), and another that hit at exactly 200 km/h (that went in).

More impressive was the fact that the American hit second serves that were faster than even the fastest Bouchard first serve on the night.

That was one of the Canadian's big issues through the week, a week during which she went 0-3, won just 11 total games in the three matches, and had her serve broken 14 times in three matches. She was outserved the whole way through – even by Halep, who known for many times, but not for her serve.

In the last 10 years at the year-end championships, plenty of players have gone 0-for-3 in the round-robin portion of the event. No one has gone 0-for-3 and won so few games.

There was a certain irony in that the only other player who was in her first career year-end final, Halep, was the first to officially qualify for this weekend's semi-finals, while Bouchard was the first of the eight players to be officially eliminated.

The Canadian came into the event admittedly under-prepared, after a series of small but nagging injuries truncated the second half of her season and cut down her practice time. She wasn't at her most confident, and her game is predicated on full confidence.

On the other side, Williams admitted that the perfectionist in her takes losses hard, and that coach Patrick Mouratoglou did a yeoman's job of restoring her own surprisingly fragile confidence in the 24 hours since her wan, almost unwatchable loss to Halep Wednesday night.

"Definitely a unique experience compared to any other tournament, one I would love to come back to in the future," said Bouchard, who still has to stick around for a few days to attend the official dinner Saturday night. "Definitely disappointed with my play this whole week, but I feel like I can do so much better. That's a positive I can take out of it as well."