Eugenie Bouchard was back on a short Monday for the first time since undergoing shoulder surgery last June.
“This is the first ball I hit in 8 months! The big day has finally arrived! I can hardly believe it! “, Wrote the Quebecer in an Instagram post accompanied by a video showing her on the court.
The 27-year-old underwent arthroscopy on her right shoulder last summer after worsening an injury that had bothered her since the fall by tearing one of the rotator cuff muscles in her shoulder in March, in a first round match at the Guadalajara tournament.
However, she reached the final of this tournament, losing to Spain’s Sara Sorribes Tormo. Rather, it was the following week, in Monterrey, that she suffered a first-round loss (to China’s Zhu Lin), her last match in 2021.
Bouchard then tried to treat the injury non-invasively, but no treatment had worked. She then decided to go under the knife.
A finalist at Wimbledon in 2014, Bouchard won a career title at Nuremberg in 2014. She is currently ranked 251.e world player.
