post-match press conference<\/a> if she was sure retirement was the right decision.<\/p>\n<\/p>\nThe former world number five admitted that even her sister was saying the same thing, but Bouchard admitted she is ready to move on.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone keeps asking me that,\u201d responded Bouchard. \u201cMy sister said she started a petition with fans in the crowd, and everyone signed it, so now I have no choice but to rescind my retirement.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut there\u2019s a lot of hard work that goes into tennis. It was great to be able to perform well, but you know, it\u2019s such a tough life of sacrifice and hard work. I\u2019ve given so much to tennis, and it\u2019s given me so much, but I do feel ready to move on from that and do other things in life, but I will forever be grateful for what tennis has given me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Eugenie Bouchard reveals if she is satisfied with how her career has ended<\/p>\n
Bouchard has played very little tennis on the WTA Tour this year, and has played just 51 singles matches since 2020.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old was then asked if she was happy with how her tennis career has ended, prompting Bouchard to claim that she felt her career deserved a moment like that in front of her home crowd in Montreal.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, like I said on court, I\u2019ve always had a feeling I would end my career here,\u201d said Bouchard. \u201cJust makes sense. Montreal is where I was born and raised, so it just feels right. Yeah, just an emotional moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I just wanted a moment like this because my career kind of deserved a moment like this is what I felt like. I really think I got it tonight, and I\u2019m so grateful for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bouchard now leaves tennis with a career-high ranking of world number five, as a former Wimbledon finalist, Billie Jean King Cup<\/a> champion and winner of one WTA title.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eugenie Bouchard has perhaps raised more questions than answers after playing what seemed to be her final match…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,11230,24595,85,747,2637],"class_list":{"0":"post-35412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-canadian-open","11":"tag-eugenie-bouchard","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Photo by Robert Prange\/Getty ImagesEugenie Bouchard says if she would now reconsider her decision to retire<\/p>\n