The Canadian Press
PARIS–An ailing Eugenie Bouchard was eliminated from the French Open today following a 6-3, 6-0 loss to 17th-seed Anastasija Sevastova.
The player from Westmount, Que. clearly struggled, committing 22 unforced errors and failing to save break point on seven-of-nine chances.
The Canadian was playing in the second major of the season despite suffering a Grade 2 ankle sprain while preparing for last week’s Nuremberg Cup.
She fought through the injury yesterday to win her delayed first-round match against Japan’s Risa Ozaki, but faltered against Latvia’s Sevastova.
Trailing 5-0 in the second set, Bouchard double-faulted to set up match point, then hit an errant forehand to pick up her final unforced error of the match.
Bouchard was a semi-finalist at Roland Garros back in 2014.
Meanwhile, Canada’s Milos Raonic is through to the third round of the French Open after a 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 win over Brazil’s Rogerio Dutra Silva yesterday.
Raonic fired his 25th ace of the day on match point to set up a third-round meeting with Spain’s Guillermo Garcia-Lopez.
The two-hour, 23-minute match could have been decided quicker had Raonic been more successful on break chances.
The fifth seed from Thornhill, Ont. won just five-of-20 break points.
After dropping the first set where he was broken twice, Raonic controlled the next two before running into some trouble in the fourth.
Raonic and Dutra Silva held serve until the ninth game, where the Brazilian faced triple break point.
But Raonic couldn’t put the Brazilian away until his seventh break point, throwing his racket to the ground at one point.
Raonic was 1-for-7 on break points in the fourth set.
Still, Raonic went into game 10 up 5-4 and emphatically put the match away with his booming serve, winning every point with an ace.
Raonic has won both his career meetings with Garcia-Lopez: a Davis Cup win in 2013 and a victory at Miami in 2014 (both on hardcourt).
In women’s action yesterday, Montreal’s Francoise Abanda was bounced from the second round after losing 6-0, 6-0 to 11th-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark.
Abanda, playing in her first French Open, was broken six times on eight chances by the former world No. 1.
