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Eugenie MONTREAL, ON – JULY 24: Eugenie Bouchard of Canada addresses the media during previews of the Rogers Cup at Uniprix Stadium on July 24, 2016 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)Bouchard
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Eugenie MONTREAL, ON – JULY 24: Eugenie Bouchard of Canada addresses the media during previews of the Rogers Cup at Uniprix Stadium on July 24, 2016 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)Bouchard
Eugenie Bouchard is the first Canadian tennis player to reach the finals of the grand slam tour. She achieved this feat in the 2014 Wimbledon Championships. However, she had to settle for the runner-up trophy on that tour. Canadians immensely celebrate the player as she achieved a name in the tennis world without Canada being a tennis country.
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Bouchard, herself, takes pride in being a Canadian and recently shared a hilarious video on Instagram about the stereotypes about the Canadian people.
Eugenie Bouchard shares a comical video depicting Canadians
Bouchard took to her Instagram story to share a funny video by a man confirming the stereotypes with the Canadians. It stated, “Tell me you’re Canadian without telling me you’re Canadian”.
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In the video, the man poured maple syrup on his pancakes and coffee. He also applied that syrup to set his hair to depict Canadians’ love for maple syrup.
Besides that, he turned and used hockey ice skates to cut his pancake. The comments went berserk over the video that made people laugh incessantly.
When will we see Bouchard on the court?
The Canadian player had suffered a shoulder injury after the Guadalajara Open last year. After that, the player underwent surgery and is focusing on recuperating from that. Following that, the player was to make a comeback at the French Open which she did not, owing to her recovery.
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NUREMBERG, GERMANY – MAY 19: Eugenie Bouchard of Canada plays a backhand in her match against Barbora Zahlavova Strycova of Czech Republic during Day 3 of the Nuernberger Versicherungscup on May 19, 2014 in Nuremberg, Germany. (Photo by Dennis Grombkowski/Bongarts/Getty Images)
Later on, fans highly anticipated her presence at Wimbledon where she has been a finalist once. In 2014, she became the first Canadian player to reach the finals of a grand slam tour. However, Petra Kvitova defeated her in the finals. This year, the player decided to sit out of the grass-court major. Wimbledon got stripped off of its ranking points and it would not have helped the player to gain any points.
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The Canadian fans are hoping for her comeback at her home turf’s WTA 1000 event.
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