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Eugenie Bouchard withdraws due to concussion
NEW YORK – Canadian Eugenie Bouchard withdrew from the women's singles draw ahead of her fourth-round meeting with Roberta Vinci, due to a concussion she suffered on Friday night.
Bouchard moved slowly as she walked into the tennis center Sunday, wearing a hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses. She did not speak with reporters before leaving.
The 25th seed in singles, she had already withdrawn from the women's doubles and mixed doubles. She slipped and fell in the locker room Friday night, shortly after winning her mixed doubles match with Nick Kyrgios. She had also won a three-set singles match on Friday.
ESPN spoke with a source close to Bouchard, who asked to remain anonymous. The source described what happened:
It was late, and the women's locker room was dark, so Bouchard felt around to find the light. According to the source, there was water on the floor, and Bouchard slipped, falling backward and landing on the back of her head. She went to the emergency room that night. After she was released, there was concern that playing a tennis match would not help her recovery and that she needed rest, the source said.
Concussions are rarely an issue in tennis. No. 1 Serena Williams said the only time she thinks she may have had a concussion was after slipping and falling at a pizza place in Florida earlier this year. Madison Keys agreed.
"It's really, really unfortunate," Keys said. "You never want to see a person come down with that. As far as tennis dealing with it, I don't think that has to be a big thing."
The 21-year-old Bouchard, who was the runner-up at Wimbledon last year and quarterfinalist at this year's Australian Open, had a solid chance of advancing to her first U.S. Open quarterfinal, where she would have faced the winner of Sunday night's match between Kristina Mladenovic and No. 13 Ekaterina Makarova.
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