Canadian tennis star Eugenie Bouchard is currently preparing for the upcoming WTA season – what went wrong on New Year’s day?
Eugenie Bouchard didn’t have a great start to 2023. The Canadian tennis star suffered from food poisoning on New Year’s Day and to make it worse it happened when she was participating in a professional tournament. Bouchard was playing at the ASB classic but had to withdraw from the second round of qualifying due to her health issues.
“Happy New Year everyone! I spent the first 8 hours of 2023 clinging to a toilet for dear life (food poisoning). Hope the start of your year was better than mine”, Bouchard joked on Twitter. Before food poisoning hit her, Bouchard showed class and secured a convincing 6-4 , 6-3 victory against Li of the U.S.A at the ASB classic tournament. She was scheduled to face another American, Katie Volynets in the second round of qualifiers but unfortunately had to give a walkover.
Fans react to Eugenie Bouchard’s revelation on Twitter
Let us take a look at some of the reactions from fans on Twitter.
“All of your fans, including me, obviously the number one, miss you. I wish you have a very good year”, wrote a fan.
“Happy new your my favorite and beautiful tennis star we hope 2023 is better for u than 2022 and off course we don’t want to see Genie injury again”, read a sweet message from another fan.
“Hopefully you are feeling better now – Happy New Year and all the best Genie. When will we see you play in Scandinavia”, tweeted another fan.
“I hope you feel better, and we hope that it will only be a bad first day, but full of successes for the rest of the year. speedy recovery Genie”, read a tweet.
Another fan wrote: “Oh dear, was wondering the reason for the “walkover”. Was afraid it was another injury.”
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