{"id":37008,"date":"2025-07-31T14:04:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/37008\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:04:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:04:12","slug":"nick-kyrgios-and-emma-raducanu-both-react-on-social-media-as-eugenie-bouchard-retires-from-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/37008\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kyrgios and Emma Raducanu both react on social media as Eugenie Bouchard retires from tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Eugenie Bouchard has officially retired from professional tennis after playing her final match at the Canadian Open.<\/p>\n

Bouchard has admitted tennis is not worth it<\/a> for her anymore, announcing that the Canadian Open<\/a> would be her final tournament.<\/p>\n

The former Wimbledon<\/a> finalist showed some of her best tennis in her opening match, with Bouchard beating Emiliana Arango<\/a> in front of a packed home crowd.<\/p>\n

Bouchard has received many messages of support<\/a> since her retirement announcement, and after losing her second round match she has received two more from Nick Kyrgios<\/a> and Emma Raducanu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"EugeniePhoto by Robert Prange\/Getty ImagesNick Kyrgios and Emma Raducanu send messages to Eugenie Bouchard<\/p>\n

Despite leading by a break in the deciding set of the match, Bouchard<\/a> was beaten by 17th seed Belinda Bencic<\/a>, 6-2 3-6 6-4.<\/p>\n

There was a big ovation for Bouchard after the match, who was clearly very emotional in the ceremony on the Centre Court in Montreal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The messages have come flooding in for the former world number five, led by Kyrgios who sent Bouchard a message on X (formerly known as Twitter).<\/p>\n

Kyrgios wrote, \u201cGreat career @geniebouchard (followed by a series of emojis). \u201cEnjoy whatever is next.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was not just Kyrgios who congratulated Bouchard on her career, with the aforementioned Raducanu also wishing the Canadian well not long after she won her own singles match in Montreal.<\/p>\n

In an Instagram story, Raducanu wrote, \u201cThank you Genie, loved watching you compete and play. Wish you all the best for your next chapter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eugenie Bouchard Career Achievements<\/p>\n

Martina Navratilova noticed Bouchard\u2019s potential<\/a> from a young age, with her breakout season coming in 2014.<\/p>\n

It was that year where Bouchard reached the Wimbledon final<\/a>, alongside her semifinals at both the Australian Open<\/a> and Roland Garros<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite reaching a career-high ranking of world number five, Bouchard only ever actually won one title that came at the Nuremberg Cup in 2014.<\/p>\n

\"EugeniePhoto by Dennis Grombkowski\/Bongarts\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Bouchard is still only 31 years old, but she has been less and less active on the WTA Tour<\/a> in recent years and has only played 35 matches in the last four years.<\/p>\n

Part of her inactivity has been related to injury, with Bouchard undergoing shoulder surgery in 2021.<\/p>\n

Bouchard has also been partaking in other ventures, including switching to another sport in pickleball.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eugenie Bouchard has officially retired from professional tennis after playing her final match at the Canadian Open. Bouchard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17581,3270,21414,43,44,10460,41,39,42,40,4306],"class_list":{"0":"post-37008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-canadian-open","9":"tag-emma-raducanu","10":"tag-eugenie-bouchard","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nick-kyrgios","14":"tag-top-news","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topnews","17":"tag-topstories","18":"tag-wta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37008","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=37008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}