Wrist issues may hamper Eugenie Bouchard in her French Open first-round match against Laura Siegemund Tuesday

PARIS – If it's not one thing, it's another for Genie Bouchard.

The 22-year-old Canadian arrived in Paris after displaying some encouraging good form at the big leadup tournament in Rome. And she may well step on the court Tuesday against 28-year-old German Laura Siegemund and play well enough to win. But in the last few days, it has been apparent that she is not 100 per cent physically.

Bouchard hasn't practiced at the actual French Open site since last Thursday, when she hit with Russian Daria Kasatkina and won, at most, one of the nine games they played. During that hit, she occasionally rubbed her left wrist during changeovers.

Friday, she had an hour with Andrea Petkovic at the nearby practice centre, but cancelled her scheduled afternoon practice on site in favour of doing some fitness.

Saturday, after a long on-court discussion with coaching mentor Nick Saviano, Bouchard took the court at the practice centre for an hour but spent most of her scheduled court time hitting slice backhands and drop shots, and working on her net game.

The last couple of days, with the inclement weather, Bouchard has been forced indoors to the La Chateigneraie Club, about a 20-25 minute drive west of Roland Garros. It's a public club, and people saw her practice. But perhaps the weather gods did her a favour;  her first-round opponent and her team would have had to make a serious effort to do some advance scouting.

When you're not in tip-top form, it's always better to remain under the radar and not give anything away.

We'll know more when Bouchard hits the warmup court Tuesday morning before her match, scheduled for 11 a.m. on smallish Court 16. She's not the type to pull out of a match, even if she's not 100 per cent; her entire career thus far, that has been her modus operandi.

But if she's having problems hitting two-handed backhands, and a taped wrist is never a good sign these days, with so many players having wrist issues, she will struggle against anyone – never mind a player in good form who is ranked in the top 40.

So we'll definitely put Bouchard on the "wait-and-see" list.

Two other Canadians will be in action Tuesday, with Vernon, B.C.'s Vasek Pospisil also starting at 11 a.m. He gets Court No. 1, the legendary bullring, against No. 7 seed Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic.

Pospisil is 2-0 against Berdych but those two wins came on the North American hard courts back in 2013 and 2014.

The third Canadian is Aleksandra Wozniak, who is coming back from shoulder surgery and got into the French Open main draw with her injury-protected ranking of No. 108.

Wozniak will play in the late afternoon or early evening. Her opponent, Russian Yulia Putintseva, is a 21-year-old former Bouchard rival from the juniors who now represents Kazakstan (the country is a better source of support for Russian tennis players) and who is playing the best tennis of her pro career. Ranked No. 60, she reached her career best of No. 53 a month ago.

In other news, the mixed-doubles draw was made Monday and beyond the doubles specialists and a few female singles players, there aren't many teams that grab the imagination. Daniel Nestor is the only Canadian taking part; he's teaming up with Johanna Konta of Great Britain.

On the plus side, the forecast is immeasurably better than it has been the last two days. On the negative side, there will be find, and the forecast high is only 16C. Those are not ideal conditions if you have a body part barking at you.