Genie Bouchard

Bouchard Ousts Cibulkova To Advance To Sydney Quarter-finals

... dominance over 3 rd-seeded Slovakian. CBC Sports. Posted: Jan 09, 2017 11:34 PM ET Last Updated: Jan 10, 2017 8:05 PM ET. Canada's Eugenie Bouchard plays a shot to Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia during their women's singles match at the Sydney International tennis tournament. (Rick Rycroft/The Associated Press). Related Stories. Eugenie Bouchard named Tennis Canada female player of the year. Canadian Eugenie Bouchard advanced to her first WTA quarter-finals since March 2016 with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over third-seeded Dominika Cibulkova at the Sydney International tennis tournament on Tuesday. Bouchard improved her career record to 4-1 against Cibulkova, who was ranked No. 5 and was voted the WTA's comeback player of the year in 2016 after her title win at the season-ending championship. . @Genie Bouchard downs Cibulkova 6-4, 6-3. — @WTA. "Any time you play one of the best players in the world it's like a standard of where ...

Genie Bouchard Out Of Australian Open After 3-set Loss

... sixth consecutive loss between the pair. The 10 th-seeded Berdych had beaten Federer twice previously at Grand Slams, and he was considered a big threat to the 17 th-seeded Federer, whose ranking has dropped following six months off because of a left knee injury. But Federer looked completely at ease and never faced a break point in the Rod Laver Arena match. Federer will play Kei Nishikori in the fourth round. Women's defending champ advances. Angelique Kerber had a straight-sets win for the first time in her first Australian Open title defence, starting her 6-0, 6-4 third-round victory with an eight-game streak against Kristyna Pliskova. Top-ranked Kerber beat the other Pliskova twin, Karolina, in the final of the last U. S. Open to capture her second career Grand Slam title. Her first was here at Melbourne Park 12 months ago. Kerber marked her 29 th birthday on Wednesday with a second-round win over fellow German Carina Witthoeft, but said she didn't celebrate much between matches and hoped to do more at the end of the tournament. She'll next play 35 th-ranked Vandeweghe. "It will be tough," Kerber ...

Genie Bouchard Bounced From Sydney Tournament Semis

... Troicki a walkover. In a night match, Daniel Evans had an upset 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 win over top-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria. Evans, who beat a top-20 player for the first time with his win over the eighth-ranked Thiem, will next play Andrey Kuznetsov, who advanced with a 2-6, 6-4, 6-1 victory over fourth-seeded Pablo Carreno Busta. At the ASB Classic in Auckland, New Zealand, seventh-seeded Steve Johnson beat two-time champion John Isner 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (3). “Last year I was here and my attitude wasn’t the best, but you live and you learn, you come back and I’m glad I turned it around this year,” said Johnson, who lost in the first round in 2016. Johnson’s semifinal opponent will be fourth-seeded Jack Sock, who beat Jeremy Chardy 5-7, 6-4, 6-3. Eighth-seeded Marcos Baghdatis and unseeded Jaoa Sousa also advanced with straight-set victories. Sousa beat Robin Haase 6-3, 6-2 while Baghdatis defeated 2015 champion Jiri Vesely 6-2, 6-4. At the Hobart International, qualifier Elise Mertens had an upset 6-2, 7-5 quarter-final win ...

Genie Bouchard’s Strong Start For 2017

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Genie Bouchard Defeated In Third Round Of Australian Open

... third set and appeared to be in control until the American rallied. Vandeweghe broke Bouchard to even the score at 4-4 in the third set, helped in the process by Bouchard's fourth double fault. At 5-5, Vandeweghe kept her serve before disposing of the 47 th-ranked Bouchard with a decisive break. Vandeweghe, ranked 35 th, held a 40-21 advantage on winners. She also smashed 11 aces to Bouchard's four and took 85 per cent of first serve points. Vandeweghe has reached the quarter-finals and the fourth round in the last two years at Wimbledon, but her run to the third round in Australia in 2016 was her best at any major not played on grass. "It's just another opponent on the way to achieving my goal," Vandeweghe said of an intense match against a player who was ranked as high as No. 5 in 2014 but hasn't gone past the third round of a Grand Slam tournament since slipping and falling in the locker-room during the 2015 U. S. Open. "Anyway I could get it done - I just wanted to get the result. Achieved my goal.". Vandeweghe will next play the winner of Friday's later match between defending champion Angelique Kerber ...

Meet The Comically Singing, Dancing Genie Army

... Bouchard tries her hand at AFL. UP NEXT. VIDEO Genie Bouchard tries her hand at AFL. Source: 7 Sport Genie Bouchard tries her hand at AFL. "When we first noticed her it was the fact she was young and exciting which is what we really liked about her," Genie Army member Filippe Ricciardi explains. The Genie Army always make themselves heard. Pic: Getty. "She had a really unique game style that was really aggressive. Her ground strokes aren't orthodox but the way she plays is just really special.". With re-worked songs ranging from the classic Barmy Army tune to the Hokey Pokey, the group also wears t-shirts that spell out the name 'Genie' and they’re a hit wherever they go. Bouchard breezes into second round. UP NEXT. VIDEO Bouchard breezes into second round. Source: 7 Sport Bouchard breezes into second round. "Every Open she'll (Bouchard) catch up with us and say hello. We went down to Canada for the Rogers Cup in 2014 so we met her a few times. The group loves a catch up with their tennis idol. Pic: Getty. "She's really good, she likes to contact us at times and see how we're going and vice versa, so the way she deals with fans ...

Genie Bouchard Wins Again In Australia

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Bouchard Copied By Children In Swimming Pool Ahead Of Australian Open

... with her 1.1 million followers on social media site Instagram. RELATED ARTICLES. 13 shares. Captioning the video Bouchard wrote: 'Was doing a pool work out and the kiddies started copying me.'. Her preparation took a knock recently after a surprise defeat in the first round of the Brisbane International last week, in her first warm-up tournament for the Australian Open. The 22-year-old recently brushed aside Zhang Shuai in the Sydney International. Former Wimbledon finalist Bouchard will be hoping to repeat her heroics of 2014 this year. But the star made the most of her wild-card entry to the Sydney International, beating Zhang Shuai of China 7-6 (1), 6-2 on Sunday in a first-round match. Bouchard will be hoping to climb back to her highs of 2014, a year in which she went on to make the semis at the French Open before losing to Petra ...