While her third round match against Caroline Garcia may not have got off to the start she was hoping, Eugenie Bouchard must have been absolutely thrilled with how things finished up.
After both players traded numerous service breaks during what was a highly entertaining and extremely tight opening set, it was an all-out assault from the Canadian No.1 in set number two as she advanced on to the fourth round of the 2015 Australian Open.
While a 7-5, 6-0 scoreline is usually a rather difficult one to explain, it was fairly self-explanatory this time around. With Bouchard returning serve as well as she has in sometime, it was just a matter of her righting the ship on serve and once that happened…the young lady on the other side of the net didn’t stand a chance.
It was first-strike tennis from start to finish and there are few on the WTA Tour who play that style of game better than the No. 7 seed. As well as Garcia was hitting the ball, Bouchard seemingly always had an answer and for a third consecutive match, was able to keep the unforced errors at a fairly manageable level.
When the native of Westmount, Quebec does that, she is very tough to deal with and unless we are talking about Petra Kvitova, Maria Sharapova or Serena Williams, there are not too many woman on tour who can beat her when she is on. Having said that, we sometimes tend to lose sight of the fact Bouchard is just twenty years of age and still has tons of room to grown as player.
Next up for the young Canadian is another trip to the Round of Sixteen in major and a date with Irina-Camelia Begu, who advanced to the fourth round with a rather straight forward 6-4, 6-4 victory over German teenager Carina Witthöft. While reaching this stage of a Grand Slam event has almost become a expected occurrence for Bouchard, this will be the first such appearance for the twenty-four year old Romanian.
