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“I Would Love to Have Dinner With Muhammad Ali” – Eugenie Bouchard

Published 07/09/2020, 1:03 PM EDT

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Canadian Player Eugenie Bouchard recently played in the Credit One Invitational Tournament. The tournament featured current Australian Open champ Sofia KeninVictoria Azarenka, etc. A few days back she collaborated with Azarenka for a show and talked about dinner with Boxing great Muhammad Ali.

Azarenka is now hosting a new series called 20 in 20 on the Tennis Channel Youtube Page. In this series, she will be asking players 20 questions about anything related to them. This could give fans some inside information about their star players and during this hiatus, players could connect more with fans.

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The first guest on this show was Genie Bouchard. And she was raw and honest with her answers. Questions ranged between her favorite brunch partner to her guilty pleasure during the lockdown.

“Dinner with Muhammad Ali will be unbelievable” – Eugenie Bouchard

One interesting question was about a dream dinner with an athlete. Azarenka asked Bouchard-

Dinner with any athlete who would you pick?

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Bouchard picked the Boxing Legend Muhammad Ali. Muhammad Ali is admired by every sportsperson for his skill and will and so it’s no surprise she chose the legendary American.

“I would love to have dinner with Muhammad Ali, That would just be unbelievable,” she answered.

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Speaking like a fan, she said it would be unbelievable to have dinner with Ali.

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Coming back to her career she has not been at her best on the tour for five years now. Since suffering a concussion injury at the 2015 US Open she has gone spiraling down and now is ranked 332. She was World No.5 in 2014. This has caused her a huge loss in sponsors too.

Her 2020 before lockdown hasn’t gone that well. Bouchard failed to qualify for the Australian Open as she crashed out in the final qualifying round. She has been playing doubles and mixed doubles lately. In 2019 she won her first Doubles title in New Zealand partnering with Sofia Kenin.

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Bhavishya Mittal is a tennis author for EssentiallySports, who is currently pursuing his Bachelor's degree in Journalism from Manipal University. A former sports editor for The Manipal Journal, Bhavishya has also worked for The New Indian Express. He has a keen eye for many sports but he is a particularly ardent follower of tennis, with a zest to create riveting articles on the ever-evolving sport.
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