Bouchard ousted in 1st round of home tournament
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Eugenie Bouchard’s mid-season nosedive continued on Tuesday as the Canadian was swept aside 3-6, 4-6 by Croatian qualifier Donna Vekic despite having home advantage and the backing of an excited crowd in a first-round clash at the Rogers Cup in Toronto.
With only one match win since her French Open second-round exit, Bouchard was hoping a visit home would result in a return to the victory column.
But she drew little inspiration from the crowd as she added to a long list of disappointing efforts, committing 32 unforced errors and seven double faults while being broken six times by a 21-year-old making a her first appearance in the main draw.
“I guess I am going to have to have a tournament in Croatia to finally have the home crowd,” said Vekic, who earned a second-round meeting with German third seed and former world No. 1 Angelique Kerber.
Bouchard, ranked as high as No. 5 and hailed as the next big thing in women’s tennis when she reached the Wimbledon final and the semifinals at the Australian Open and Roland Garros in 2014, has seen her ranking plummet to 70 in the world and needed a wildcard entry into her home tournament.
Former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki opened her campaign with a 6-3, 6-0 second-round rout of Ekaterina Alexandrova.
Polish 10th seed Agnieszka Radwanska, the Rogers Cup winner in 2014, kicked off her North American hardcourt campaign with a regulation 6-3, 6-3 win over American CoCo Vandeweghe, who lost the final in Stanford on Sunday to compatriot Madison Keys.
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