Eugenie Bouchard makes heartbreaking Wimbledon confession 10 years after final

Eugenie Bouchard made it to the women's singles last astatine Wimbledon successful 2014 but has admitted that she has yet to ticker the lucifer backmost arsenic it is conscionable "too painful" for her

Eugenie Bouchard has confessed that she inactive can't ticker backmost her 2014 Wimbledon last performance, describing it arsenic "too painful".

The Canadian tennis prima had an breakout twelvemonth successful 2014, clinching her archetypal WTA singles rubric and reaching the semi-finals of 2 Grand Slams, including the Indian Wells Open and the French Open.

Bouchard's travel to the Wimbledon women's singles last successful 2014 was historic, overcoming world fig 3 Simona Halep successful the semi-finals and becoming the archetypal Canadian-born subordinate representing Canada to scope a Grand Slam singles final.

However, she faced a crushing decision by erstwhile champion Petra Kvitova with a consecutive acceptable nonaccomplishment of 6-3, 6-0, which led to a play of conflict with her form.

The 30-year-old appeared connected the Tennis Insider podcast to sermon her intelligence wellness struggles passim her vocation and revealed that she hasn't watched the Wimbledon last due to the fact that of the "pain" it causes her.

Bouchard said: "I still, to this day, person not rewatched the finals, due to the fact that I conscionable can't. It's like, excessively achy for me. I got killed, which possibly is simply a blessing successful disguise, due to the fact that you cognize erstwhile you travel truthful adjacent to winning a match, and past you suffer it, and you're replaying implicit and implicit successful your caput what you could person done amended connected a interruption constituent oregon a lucifer point... Like I said successful the moment, it felt normal, similar I was conscionable putting my caput down and moving hard and playing good and conscionable continuing this thrust of confidence.

"I was truthful happy, and I wouldn't truly accidental surprised. It's much similar I believed successful myself, oregon I've been moving towards this each azygous time for for years and years and years. So it's benignant of happy, but I ever knew I could bash good and it was much of a alleviation for each the hard enactment and trusting yourself, due to the fact that I believed I could bash it.

"And then, I showed myself I could bash it, truthful you benignant of spot yourself and evidently looking back, I'm like, 'wow, I did this brainsick thing', but successful the infinitesimal I was successful my small bubble for this match."

Bouchard besides opened up astir feelings during the travel to the Wimbledon finals, wherever she recalled not being tense but for successful the build-up to the final. She said: "It's interesting, I ne'er felt tense earlier immoderate of the matches successful that tourney specifically, but for the final.

"I retrieve sitting successful the locker country and feeling my hands sweat and similar my hands like, ne'er sweat. And truthful it was similar a carnal absorption that showed me, 'wow, my encephalon is making maine deliberation astir this differently'. So I was decidedly precise tense for the final."

The Montreal-born jock is continuing to play tennis, and precocious won the BJK Cup with Canada for the archetypal clip successful the country's past past year.

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