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Eugenie Bouchard schools Shahar Peer at the French Open – Parts 1 and 2
PARIS – Less than 48 hours before, Montreal's Genie Bouchard was in Nürnberg, Germany winning her first WTA Tour title.
A quick flight to Paris, a one-hour practice on a completely different court at Roland Garros and half a day of sloppy weather later, you could forgive the 20-year-old for being a little out of sync at first in her opening-round match against Shahar Pe'er of Israel.
Well, you could, but you didn't need to.
Bouchard barely gave her veteran opponent a chance to breathe in a 6-0, 6-2 shellacking that kicks off her Roland Garros campaign on just the right note.
"Yeah, it was tough, for sure. I flew right after the final and had one day of practice. But, you know, that's always a good problem to have. I feel like I'm playing well on the court, so I'm just trying to keep the flow going," Bouchard said. "I think today it was actually a bit slower because of the conditions. In Nürnberg it was actually a bit hot on some of the days so it was a bit faster. I find the courts here are generally like fast clay courts, so I like them. It's fine for me."
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The day's schedule was more than an hour late getting started. The match itself – not including the stoppage when Bouchard led 6-0, 3-1 – took less time than that. The Canadian hammered Pe'er's second serve; she won just 4-of-21 points there. She took some pretty good cuts at Pe'er's first serve, too. And since Pe'er got only 52 per cent of her first serves in, there were plenty of opportunities for both.
There was one slight hiccup when the players returned from the rain delay. But the sum total of that was a couple of unforced errors. And then right back on track.
"Generally I think I did a good job. Especially with the rain delay it's always tough to go back out and keep the momentum and things like that. They can often switch in the other person's direction," she said. "So I'm happy that I really stayed focused and just a few little things, just always trying to improve everything, but nothing, you know, glaring today."
About half the 56 points Bouchard won in the match came on winners – 27 in all.
The French have not yet jumped aboard the Genie Army bandwagon; there was no evidence of a local Parisian chapter coming on board to cheer her on. Bouchard did get a couple of Hello Kitty stuffed animals from Japanese fans. The larger one was even personalized, with Kitty wearing a maple leaf on her front.
And there were a couple of young lads in the crowd yelling encouragement after pretty much every point, not taking their eyes off the comely Bouchard for a second.
In the end, Parisians are probably too cool for that sort of thing. Certainly the tournament refused to be overly impressed by the hype Bouchard has generated over the last year, and the fact that she's coming into Roland Garros fresh off a tournament victory.
They assigned her Court 5, which is a non-TV court and a pretty small one at that. It was packed.
Next up for Bouchard is the German Julia Goerges who, like Pe'er, once had a much higher ranking but isn't playing at the same level as she was when at her best.