"It never crossed my mind to stop" - Bouchard after coming back to tennis
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After 18 months away from tennis, Eugenie Bouchard returned at the 2022 Chennai Open and she did it in style.
The 28-years-old Canadian reached quarterfinals in singles and semifinals in doubles and it seems that during her time away from tennis courts, Eugenie Bouchard forgot how to lose. After one of her victories, the 2014 Wimbledon finalist spoke about her thoughts during the recovery, when she said:
"It was a very long process, having surgery and doing rehab,” Eugenie Bouchard said. “I never had to do anything like that in my career before. Every athlete at some point in their career has a bad injury and I made it to age 27 without a surgery and then I had two."
"It never crossed my mind to stop. I always want to stop on my own terms and I did not want to be forced to stop because of an injury. Now I am at the very beginning of my journey of coming back and hopefully I have many more years of this."
"I'm proud of myself, of all the work that it took to get here," Bouchard said. "I'm happy I could show myself that I could still do it and also get a little confidence from winning matches. I just want to keep going, one match at a time, one tournament at a time and enjoy that journey of coming back."
“I haven't gone a year without playing tennis since I was five years old," Bouchard said. "It's hard to be forced to not to do what you love. I was able to do some cool projects off-court such as commentary and other stuff. But my favourite thing is to play tennis so I’m really happy to be back.”
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