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Eugenie Bouchard's short stint with tennis legend Jimmy Connors ends Sunday
NEW YORK – Jimmy Connors is leaving New York Sunday. He'll be back in a week.
Will charge Genie Bouchard still be around? That would mean reaching the fourth round of the US Open, as she did a year ago before losing to Ekaterina Makarova on a day on Louis Armstrong Stadium during which the heat got to her.
“She'd better. “If she’s playing like she’s playing now, she’ll be okay," Connors told the Wall Street Journal's Tom Perrotta, who caught up with the 62-year-old American after another practice session with Bouchard early Friday afternoon at the Flushing Meadows site.
Connors wanted to make clear that he is not Bouchard's new coach, as many Internet reports had it on Thursday (although not Eh Game). They know each other; he believes in her talent. He's helping her out.
“Sometimes you go through a rough patch—everybody hits it. Nobody’s immune to that. You’ve got to figure out a way to get out of it," he told the Journal. “I like her work ethic and the way she goes about her business. You can’t paint that on anybody, that’s either there or it’s not. And you know when it’s a bluff. The way she goes about it and takes care of her business, she’s willing to learn and she’s willing to try things.”
Eh Game has learned that Connors hadn't originally intended to come to New York until next Sunday, but that Team Bouchard pretty much laid down the red carpet to get a little of his experience and expertise before the tournament began.
Bouchard kicks it off Monday (as do the other two Canadians in the singles, Vasek Pospisil and Milos Raonic) against American Alison Riske.
In other news, there was a report Friday that Bouchard will play mixed doubles with current enfant terrible Nick Kyrgios even though last week, he seemed to have made a mixed date via Twitter with Wimbledon mixed partner Madison Keys. It's the only media outlet to have had this, but Kyrgios himself reTweeted something that mentioned the partnership with Bouchard – that's what's passing for confirmation in our social-media world, so we'll go with it.
The lady knows how to make headlines, without a doubt.
Meanwhile, what will she do about a permanent coaching solution?
Finding a top-level coach in the middle of the season isn't the easiest of tasks, unless you try to poach one away from another player – not something that worked out all that well earlier this season.
But Eh Game is told that Swede Thomas Hogstedt, who has coached Maria Sharapova (above), Caroline Wozniacki and Li Na, among many others, is interested although the process seems to be moving very slowly on the Bouchard side.
Perhaps, when Bouchard hits Asia for a series of four planned tournaments to wrap up her 2015 season, there might be a new face at her side.
