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Bouchard fell to Slovenia's Dalila Jakupović, 6-0 2-1, before retiring due to injury in their first-round qualifying meeting. The 24-year-old played in each Grand Slam spanning across the last five years, with her last qualifying loss coming at the Australian Open qualifiers when she was making her women's draw debut. Bouchard's match against Jakupović Tuesday proved to be her latest mishap.
Bouchard wasn't able to win or steal a game from Jakupović in the first set. Jakupović quickly took a substantial lead over the Canadian and ultimately closed out the first set leading 6-0. Bouchard committed 11 unforced errors in the set with only five winners. The second set was no different than the first. She struggled with her opponent, making seven unforced errors within three games. After trailing Jakupović 2-1, Bouchard called over her trainers. She appeared to injure herself during the match and walked off the court holding her left side thus ending her brief run at Roland-Garros.
Bouchard was one of four Canadians attempting to enter the French Open's main draw. But after Bouchard, Carol Zhao and Françoise Abanda all fell in their respective first round qualifying matches; Bianca Andreescu is the lone Canadian standing on the women's side. She defeated No. 1 ranked Belarus' Vera Lapko in straight sets to advance to the second round. Andreescu needs two more wins — starting against Viktoriya Tomova — to play in her first career women's Grand Slam.PARIS — As usual, all eyes are on Serena Williams, no matter what — whether she’s attending the most talked-about wedding of the year or practicing at Roland Garros.
That she recently engaged in those two activities on consecutive days, in different countries, highlighted what a star she is, in and out of tennis, and added to the buzz that Williams will, indeed, return to play at the French Open, which is what her coach has vowed.
Main-draw action begins Sunday in what would be Williams’ first Grand Slam tournament in more than a year.
The owner of 23 major singles titles, a record for the 50-year Open era, Williams hasn’t played on one of her sport’s most prestigious stages since winning the Australian Open in January 2017, while pregnant. She gave birth to a daughter on Sept. 1, then dealt with medical complications, and while she originally had hoped to be back on tour by the Australian Open this January, that did not work out.
Williams, a 36-year-old American, has played only four official singles matches in the early portion of her comeback and pulled out of clay-court warmup events in Madrid and Rome in May. She is ranked 453rd this week.
“It’s going to be great to see if she’s back,” defending French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko said.ONCE firmly on the path to challenging Roger Federer as the greatest player of all time, Novak Djokovic’s career has threatened to spiral into relative obscurity.
The Serbian was consistently ranked world No.1 across five years, and was considered nearly unbeatable by pundits on his way to simultaneously holding all four grand slams in the European summer of 2016.
But the 12-time grand slam winner lost all four titles as quick as he gained them, before his woe was compounded by an elbow injury that sidelined him for six months.Jamie Lisanti: I don’t think I needed a refresher lesson on this, but here’s one thing I learned in the last month of play on the clay: Rafael Nadal reigns supreme. Per usual, the Spaniard was dominant on the dirt in the run-up to Roland Garros, capturing trophies in Monte Carlo, Barcelona and Rome to solidify fourth place on the Open Era titles list with 78. On top of that, he’ll step foot in Paris with the World No. 1 ranking in his grasp once again. The recent tournaments emphasized Nadal’s stranglehold and demonstrated how players like Dominic Thiem and Alexander Zverev are capable of challenging, but not conquering, the king.
Here’s a copy-and-paste from last year: Elina Svitolina is on fire right now. In 2017, the 23-year-old Ukrainian beat Karolina Pliskova, Garbine Muguruza and Simona Halep en route to the title in Rome. (And then proceeded to fall 3-6, 7-6(6), 6-0 to the Romanian in the French Open quarterfinals.) This year, Svitolina once again captured the Italian Open crown, emphatically beating World No. 1 Halep 6-0, 6-4. So what will happen at the French Open this year? My gut tells me Svitolina will once again capitulate before the semifinals at Roland Garros in 2018.
And here’s one more takeaway: Injuries are still dominating tennis. Andy Murray, Milos Raonic, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga will all be missing in Paris. And you can likely add Juan Martin del Potro to that list, after he suffered a groin strain in Rome. Others are likely to join that group by the time the draw is out. What should players takeaway from these absences? Staying healthy is key, of course, but recovering from those ailments is nearly just as important
