At the mention of Wimbledon Eugenie Bouchard smiles. “I think about the tradition, just the history,” she says. “When you think of tennis, you think of Wimbledon. How classy it is there, all the traditional things about it, the grass, the white outfits. In my head I even think of the wooden rackets.”
Bouchard has not been smiling much over the past few months. The Canadian will go into Wimbledon in a slump that at first was annoying but soon became worrying. Twelve months ago the 21-year-old seemed the heir apparent and the darling of the photographers as she reached her first grand slam final.