PARIS – Canada’s wildcard participant Eugenie Bouchard’s best Grand Slam since 2017 is over after a loss in the third round at the French Open on Friday.
The Polish teenager Iga Swiatek reached the fourth round of the clay court Grand Slam for the second time in a row with a 6-3, 6-2 win over the Canadian.
Bouchard, from Westmount, Que., Made it into the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time since the 2017 Australian Open.
Bouchard finished 168th in the world and received a wild card for the French Open after reaching the final of a clay court tournament in Istanbul last month.
Bouchard, a former number 5 in the world after reaching the Wimbledon final in 2014, has been down in recent years.
Leylah Annie Fernandez of Laval, Que., Is the only Canadian left in the individual player draw. In the third round she will meet Petra Kvitova from the Czech Republic on Saturday.
The 19-year-old Swiatek has only lost 13 games at Roland Garros and never lost a set. She opened her campaign with a surprise in the first round of the 2019 French Open finalist, Marketa Vondrousova.
Swiatek hit 30 winners and converted six of their 13 breakpoints against Bouchard.
The 54th Swiatek lost on her Roland Garros debut in the fourth round of last year against the 2018 champion, Simona Halep. She also made the fourth round at this year’s Australian Open.
Swiatek is the daughter of a former Olympic rower. Tomasz Swiatek rowed four times at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul.
In the women’s doubles in the second round, the fifth team of Gabriela Dabrowksi from Ottawa and Jelena Ostapenko from Latvia defeated Monica Niculescu from Romania and Misaki Doi from Japan 6: 4, 2: 6, 7: 5.
Vancouver’s Vasek Pospisil and American Jack Sock were due to play a double in the men’s second round later on Friday.
– With files from The Associated Press
This Canadian press report was first published on October 2, 2020
