Eugenie Bouchard to retire from tennis at Canada Open
Eugenie Bouchard has not played on the main tour since the Guadalajara tournament in 2023.
Eugenie Bouchard, Berlin 2023 – © Zuma / Psnewz
End of the road for Eugenie Bouchard. The 31-year-old announced on Wednesday via Instagram that she will retire after the WTA 1000 tournament in Montreal, which will take place from July 27 to August 7, 2025.
“You’ll know when it’s time. For me, it’s now. Ending where it all started: Montreal,” she wrote on Instagram, in a post accompanied by four photos: one of her playing tennis as a child, two others from her time on the WTA Tour, and a final one posing with her Wimbledon runner-up trophy.
Eugenie Bouchard has not played on the main tour since the WTA 500 event in Guadalajara in 2023, where she lost in the second round to Russian player Veronika Kudermetova (6-2, 6-7, 6-4). She also exited in the first round of qualifying at the WTA 1000 tournament in Toronto in 2024.
The Canadian reached the peak of her career in 2014—her best season—climbing to No. 5 in the world rankings. That year, she reached the semifinals of both the Australian Open and Roland-Garros, and played in her only Grand Slam final at Wimbledon, where she lost to Petra Kvitova.
In 2014, Bouchard also won her only WTA Tour title, claiming victory on the clay courts of Nuremberg by defeating Karolina Pliskova in the final. Over the course of her career, she defeated twelve Top 10 players, the last of whom was then-world No. 2 Angelique Kerber at the WTA 1000 in Madrid in 2017.
