Eugenie Bouchard

Eugenie "Genie" Bouchard ( Eugénie Bouchard, ; born 25 February 1994) is a Canadian professional tennis player.

In 2005, Bouchard participated at the tournament Open Super 12 in Auray, France.

She captured the ITF singles and doubles titles in Costa Rica and also the All Canadian ITF singles title in Burlington, Ontario in 2008.

In 2009 and at only 15, she won the Canadian Under-18 Indoor Championship in Toronto.

At this event, Bouchard overpowered fellow Quebecer Marianne Jodoin to become, at 15 years and a month, one of the youngest winners of the indoor event.

Later that year, she won her first professional main-draw match at Caserta, Italy, defeating No. 798 Frederica Grazioso.

Also in that year, she won the Pan American Closed ITF Championships.

At the Australian Open, she lost in the semifinals of the singles junior event against fifth seed Monica Puig.

A week later, she won her first professional title at the $25k Burnie International, where she defeated fellow 16-year-old qualifier Zheng Saisai in the final.

She won her second professional title in April at the $10k in Šibenik, Croatia, where she defeated qualifier Jessica Ginier in the final.

She missed the French Open due to an injury.

At Wimbledon, Bouchard lost in the quarterfinals of the singles junior event to No. 3 seed Irina Khromacheva but won the doubles junior event with her partner Grace Min.

She also reached a week later her first professional doubles final with Megan Moulton-Levy at the $50k tournament in Waterloo, where she lost.

At the end of July, she beat the 114th ranked player Alison Riske at the Citi Open in College Park.

It was her first WTA Tour main-draw win.

With that win, she had the chance to meet No. 2 seed Nadia Petrova in the second round, but lost the match.

Bouchard finished the season ranked No. 302 in the world.

Bouchard reached the semifinals of the junior Australian Open for the second straight year, but lost to Yulia Putintseva.

Bouchard won her first professional doubles title at the $50k tournament in Dothan, Alabama with partner Jessica Pegula.

She defeated fellow Canadians Sharon Fichman and Marie-Ève Pelletier in the final.

In May, Bouchard won her third professional singles title at the $10k in Båstad with a win in the final over Katharina Lehnert.

The following week, she won her second straight ITF title in Båstad, where she defeated Milana Špremo in the final.

Bouchard won the junior singles title at Wimbledon defeating third seed Elina Svitolina.

She became the first Canadian ever, junior or pro, to win a major in singles.

She also won the doubles title for the second straight year, this time with American Taylor Townsend, beating Belinda Bencic and Ana Konjuh in the final.

At the end of July, Bouchard won her second $25k and fifth singles title of her career at the Challenger de Granby.

She defeated fellow Canadian and defending champion, Stéphanie Dubois, in the final.

She played a week later at the Washington Open where she was awarded a wildcard for the main draw.

Bouchard made it to the first WTA Tour quarterfinal of her career, but was defeated by Sloane Stephens.

At the Rogers Cup, she upset former world No. 11, Shahar Pe'er, in the first round.

She then lost in the next round to 2011 French Open champion Li Na.

Bouchard reached her first $50k final at the Saguenay Challenger, but lost to Madison Keys.

Having won the 2012 Wimbledon girls' title as a junior, she was named WTA Newcomer of the Year at the end of the 2013 WTA Tour.

At the 2014 Wimbledon Championships, she became the first Canadian-born player representing Canada to reach the final of a major singles tournament, finishing runner-up to Petra Kvitová.

Bouchard also reached the semifinals of the 2014 Australian Open and 2014 French Open.

Bouchard received the WTA Most Improved Player award for the 2014 season and reached a career-high ranking of world No. 5, becoming the first Canadian tennis player to be ranked in the top 5 in singles.

Eugenie Bouchard was born as one of twins to Michel Bouchard, an investment banker, and Julie Leclair in Montreal.

Bouchard started playing tennis at the age of five and was a member of Tennis Canada's National Training Centre in Montreal.

She grew up in Westmount, where she attended and graduated from The Study, a private girls’ school, and lived on the same street as former prime minister Brian Mulroney.

At age 12, she moved to Florida to train with coach Nick Saviano.