Bouchard's Strong Return Halted By Injury In Gstaad

A leg injury ended the best showing in 18 months by Eugenie Bouchard, who quit her Saturday semi-final at Gstaad trailing Alize Cornet 7-6 (7/5), 1-0.

Gstaad, Switzerland, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st Jul, 2018 ) :A leg injury ended the best showing in 18 months by Eugenie Bouchard, who quit her Saturday semi-final at Gstaad trailing Alize Cornet 7-6 (7/5), 1-0.

The 2014 Wimbledon finalist, whose one-time fourth ranking has slipped to No. 146 after several seasons of despair, last played a semi-final at Sydney in January, 2017.

Her previous best showing in 2018 was a quarter-final in Taipei in February.

The 24-year-old Canadian had accounted for a pair of Swiss opponents in the first two rounds at this alpine village whose clay at an altitude of 985 metres plays much like a hardcourt.

But early in, it all came crashing down.

"In the second point of the match, I felt a stretch in my groin, adductor muscle," she said. "I called the physio, but it kept getting worse."Cornet, recovering from a first-round Wimbledon defeat and making her Gstaad debut, will play for the title on Sunday against Mandy Minella.

Minella, a new mother making a return to the Tour, beat Czech Marketa Vondrousova 4-6, 6-2, 6-2.