{"id":26917,"date":"2025-07-27T03:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T03:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26917\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T03:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T03:08:13","slug":"eugenie-bouchard-explains-why-playing-tennis-is-just-not-worth-it-anymore-ahead-of-her-retirement-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26917\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugenie Bouchard explains why playing tennis is ‘just not worth it anymore’ ahead of her retirement in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

At 31 years of age, former Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard is set to play the last match of her career at the Canadian Open in Montreal. <\/p>\n

Bouchard announced her retirement<\/a> from professional tennis last week in a post on social media, stating: \u201cYou\u2019ll know when it\u2019s time. For me, it\u2019s now. Ending where it all started: Montreal.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Canadian made a recent comeback, playing her first match on the WTA<\/a> Tour in a year, partnering with Clervie Ngounoue in doubles at the Washington Open. <\/p>\n

After the two lost in the first round, Bouchard<\/a> will now prepare for one last dance at her home tournament. <\/p>\n

\"EugeniePhoto by Robert Prange\/Getty ImagesEugenie Bouchard reveals why she wants to retire from tennis<\/p>\n

In a press conference at the Washington Open, Bouchard said: \u201cI think all good things come to an end. I love tennis. I\u2019ll always love tennis. I will stay involved in tennis.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it just takes so much dedication, sacrifice, and, you know, dedicating your entire life to have a chance to make it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s something I have done my whole life thus far. For me, at a certain point, that\u2019s just not worth it anymore. So I\u2019m kind of at that stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think with a little bit more time, once I\u2019m really done, I\u2019ll be able to process more and really reflect on my career. I haven\u2019t done that thus far.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I kind of did the whole spectrum of positive, negative, good results, bad results, and I guess that\u2019s what life is, too, right? So tennis was a little kind of sample of what real life is.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"EugeniePhoto by Robert Prange\/Getty ImagesEugenie Bouchard says she doesn\u2019t want her retirement to be a funeral<\/p>\n

Bouchard said of her last campaign in Montreal: \u201cRight before I announced it, I was kind of stressed about this whole situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had this thought of, oh, I just want to fast-track until August and put it all behind me, and then I got such an outpouring of support and so many people reached out to me, and I saw so much positivity out in the universe.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was, like, okay, wait, let me embrace this time. It\u2019s such a unique time in my life and something I have never done before and will never do again, really, unless I retire from my normal office job in 40 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019m, like, you know what? I\u2019m actually excited. First I was quite stressed about the whole ordeal, and then seeing the love I got, feeling so supported and appreciated made me feel so excited.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I\u2019m looking forward to it. I want to make it like a celebration, not a funeral and see everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former world number five will hope to go far at the tournament in front of her home crowd. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At 31 years of age, former Wimbledon finalist Eugenie Bouchard is set to play the last match of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,17581,21414,82,593,4306],"class_list":{"0":"post-26917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-open","11":"tag-eugenie-bouchard","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}