Eugenie Bouchard Trolls Maria Sharapova After Getting Destroyed by Serena Williams

The defending runner-up Serena Williams trounced her long-time rival, Maria Sharapova 6-1, 6-1 in the first round of the US Open 2019 on Monday.

Serena Williams showed no signs of back problems as she stretched her winning streak to 19 matches against Maria Sharapova and now leads the head-to-head record to 20-2.

Serena Williams said in the post-match interview, “Every time I play against her, I bring out some of my best tennis.”

Serena also praised Sharapova after seeing her in the draw. She said,  “I mean obviously, I’m going against a player who has won five grand slams and been in the final of even more so that never eases. Every practice after that was super intense.”

Eugenie Bouchard trolled Maria Sharapova for not putting a competitive show against the 23-time Grand Slam champion as the match lasted for only 59 minutes. The Canadian poked fun of Maria Sharapova on Twitter as she posted a picture of the match between Williams and Sharapova and wrote, “I am just here for the handshake lol”.

On the contrary, Eugenie Bouchard was also Knocked out by the 12th seed, Anastasija Sevastova 6-3, 6-3 in the opening round of the US Open 2019 on Monday. The error-prone Bouchard struggled with her accuracy as she committed 27 unforced errors and double-faulting four times.

Eugenie Bouchard has struggled all season as she saw a drop in her rankings to world No.119 in the WTA rankings and her loss at the Flushing Meadows on the opening day of the US Open 2019 was her 12th in a row.

The Canadian, who made fun of Maria Sharapova for lasting only 59 minutes against Serena Williams, could herself manage to stay in the match against the defending semifinalist, Anastasija Sevastova for 1 hour and 14 minutes. She also has an inferior head-to-head record 1-4 against Maria Sharapova.

Eugenie Bouchard’s comments on Sharapova’s match against Serena Williams did not go down well with the audience has her trolling backfired upon her.

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The Canadian, however, used to idolize the Russian star as a child but after the doping case against Maria Sharapova, Bouchard called her a “cheater” and claimed a life ban should have been imposed on the Russian for testing positive for meldonium at the 2016 Australian Open

Earlier, Bouchard had said in a statement on Sharapova, “Yeah, of course as a child I looked up to her and I remember watching her in the finals of Wimbledon (in 2004) and, you know, thought what she was doing was so cool and I wanted to do the same thing.”