Eugenie Bouchard reached her first and only Grand Slam final at Wimbledon in 2014, losing to Petra Kvitova in straight sets.
A remarkable season in 2014 saw the Canadian make three consecutive semi-finals at the Australian and French Open, before going one better at Wimbledon.
Eugenie Bouchard’s subsequent career drop-off and coaching woes saw the Canadian fail to ever recreate her form of 2014.
After her three semi-final appearances propelled her into the top five, the then 20-year-old finished the following year as the world number 48.
Despite Bouchard finally winning her first WTA title in four years in 2020, shoulder surgery the next year was quickly followed by a 17-month hiatus.
Eugenie Bouchard’s subsequent career drop-off and coaching woes saw the Canadian fail to ever recreate her form of 2014.
After her three semi-final appearances propelled her into the top five, the then 20-year-old finished the following year as the world number 48.
Despite Bouchard finally winning her first WTA title in four years in 2020, shoulder surgery the next year was quickly followed by a 17-month hiatus.
Currently sat just 16 places inside the top 1000 in the WTA Live rankings, Bouchard has sidestepped into both pickleball and punditry, despite still occasionally competing on the tour.
Eugenie Bouchard highlights her big Wimbledon regret 10 years on
The Canadian has had a peculiar career of one enormous year-long peak, followed by slightly unremarkable ones surrounding it.
A keen commentator, Bouchard was recently embroiled in controversy relating to Jessica Pegula’s US Open run, with the Canadian attracting some unwanted attention.
Having been forced to bat away claims that she was a ‘one-hit wonder’ – a plight faced by numerous WTA players – Bouchard reflected on some career regrets in a recent episode of the Tennis Insider Club podcast.
She said: “I did well at the beginning of the year, I made the quarters of Australia and then I made a coaching change and I look back and that is something I kind of regret because in my life I had so much going on after that Wimbledon final and attention and sponsor stuff and my life became kind of crazy.
“I wish I was working with Nick Saviano and he remained a long time coach and to this day he is like my tennis dad and mentor. But I stopped working with him at the end of this year and I wish I hadn’t.
“I wish I kept something to keep some stability,” the 30-year-old admitted. “Even if six months or a year later we would have stopped, in that crazy moment to have one thing more constant because everything around me was changing, I feel like that didn’t help with success on the court in the short term.”