Eugenie Bouchard to retire from tennis at home in Montreal after National Bank Open

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jul 16, 2025 3:09 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Canadian tennis subordinate Eugenie Bouchard, who reached No. 5 successful the WTA rankings successful a breakout 2014 season, is retiring from tennis astatine this year's National Bank Open successful Montreal.

Tennis Canada announced Bouchard's status astatine her hometown tourney successful a quality merchandise Wednesday and said she volition person a main-draw chaotic paper into the WTA 1000 hardcourt tournament, which begins July 26.

The Montreal-born Bouchard made it to the Wimbledon women's last successful 2014, losing to Petra Kvitova successful consecutive sets. She became the archetypal Canadian pistillate successful the unfastened epoch to contention a Grand Slam singles final.

She besides reached the semifinals astatine the Australian Open and the French Open and qualified for the WTA Finals successful 2014 en way to winning the tour's astir improved subordinate award. Bouchard's 2014 play besides included her lone WTA rubric astatine the clay-court Nuremberg Cup.

"She has been 1 of the astir important figures successful the past of our athletics successful Canada and a trailblazer who redefined what Canadian tennis could be," said Valerie Tetreault, the National Bank Open tourney director. "We are arrogant of everything she has done, arsenic a subordinate and relation model, and we can't hold to spot her successful enactment 1 past clip astatine IGA Stadium this summer."

While injuries, including a concussion astatine the 2015 U.S. Open, and inconsistent signifier prevented helium from reaching those heights connected the WTA Tour again, she remained an important portion of Canada's women's team.

The 31-year-old represented Canada astatine the Olympic Games successful 2016 and earned 13 lucifer wins implicit 10 Billie Jean King Cup ties. She teamed with Gabriela Dabrowski successful 2 group-stage doubles victories arsenic portion of Canada's first-ever BJK Cup rubric successful 2023.

"You'll cognize erstwhile it's time. For me, it's now. Ending wherever it each started: Montreal," Bouchard posted connected the X societal media platform.

Tennis Canada main enforcement serviceman Gavin Ziv thanked Bouchard for her contributions to tennis successful Canada.

"Few athletes person near arsenic profound a people connected Canadian tennis arsenic Genie has passim her bonzer career," Ziv said successful a quality release, adding her achievements aboriginal successful her vocation were "things that galore thought would beryllium intolerable for Canadian players."

"Her vocation highlights, which see a Wimbledon last quality and a Billie Jean King Cup championship, are thing abbreviated of bonzer and were a existent catalyst for the improvement of tennis successful our country," helium added. "She's been and inactive is an unthinkable ambassador for our athletics and, connected behalf of Tennis Canada, I privation to convey her for everything she's done."

No. 1 Sabalenka, No. 10 Badosa retreat from NBO

World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka and 10th-ranked Paula Badosa person withdrawn from the upcoming National Bank Open.

Sabalenka said successful a merchandise that she volition miss her Canadian fans, but skipping Montreal gives her the champion accidental of occurrence successful the upcoming hard-court season.

Badosa said aft a first-round nonaccomplishment to Katie Boulter astatine Wimbledon that she sustained a backmost wounded that volition support her retired of enactment for a fewer weeks.

Caty McNally of the United States and Japan's Moyuka Uchijima were fixed main-draw berths into the tourney successful a corresponding move.

The National Bank Open starts July 26 astatine IGA Stadium.