Australian Summer
RR - Lucie Safarova def. Genie Bouchard 6-0 6-4
RR - Genie Bouchard def. Serena Williams 6-2 6-1
RR - Genie Bouchard def. Flavia Pennetta 6-3 6-4
R1 - Genie Bouchard def. Anna-Lena Friedsam 6-2 6-4
R2 - Genie Bouchard def. Kiki Bertens 6-1 6-3
R3 - Genie Bouchard def. Caroline Garcia 7-5 6-0
R4 - Genie Bouchard def. Irina-Carmelia Begu 6-1 5-7 6-2
QF - Maria Sharapova def. Genie Bouchard 6-3 6-2
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The year started well for Genie. After a few exhos in Perth to ease into the year she played 3 good matches to make it into the 2nd week of her 5th slam in a row. She choked away a big lead against Begu, but regrouped and won it in 3, but then was without a chance against Sharapova.
Hard Court Spring
R1 - BYE
R2 - Mona Barthel def. Genie Bouchard 4-6 6-1 6-2
R1 - BYE
R2 - Genie Bouchard def. Lucie Hradecka 6-2 6-2
R3 - Genie Bouchard def. Coco Vandeweghe 6-3 6-2
R4 - Lesia Tsurenko def. Genie Bouchard 6-7 7-5 6-4
R1 - BYE
R2 - Tatjana Maria def. Genie Bouchard 6-0 7-6
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Returning home from Australia it became known that Genie had hired Sam Sumyk, long-time coach of Azarenka. Most people were pretty upbeat about that initially, it looked like a great hire. In Antwerp though she was hampered by an arm injury that also forced her to withdraw from the tournaments in Dubai and Mexico. She played reasonably well in the early rounds of Indian Wells, but then, playing an injured Tsurenko she injured her abdomen in the match, lost, and with that an incredible series of WTF-losses started. Getting bageled by Tadde Maria was far from the low-point of her season...
Clay Season
R1 - BYE
R2 - Lauren Davis def. Genie Bouchard 6-3 6-1
R1 - Barbora Strycova def. Genie Bouchard 0-6 6-3 6-3
R1 - BYE
R2 - Genie Bouchard def. Zarina Diyas 6-3 6-4
R3 - Carla Suarez Navarro def. Genie Bouchard 6-7 7-5 7-6
R1 - Kristina Mladenovic def. Genie Bouchard 6-4 6-4
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Now it's getting really bad. After getting trashed by Lauren Davis in Charleston she somehow gets urged into playing Fed Cup where the infamous Handshake-incident No.2 happened. She refuses to pose for a pre-match handshake picture with Dulgheru, manages to lose to Dulgheru, gets mocked, proceeds to lose to Mitu, too. And it only got worse from there. After an first-round exit in Madrid she beats Diyas (and served out the match in only 3 attempts) she played the mother of all choking matches against Suarez Navarro, serving for the match multiple times, only to double fault twice at *7-6 in the final set tiebreak. Paris was over quickly, too.
Grass Season
R1 - Yaroslava Shvedova def. Genie Bouchard 6-4 1-6 6-4
R1 - BYE
R2 - Kiki Mladenovic def. Genie Bouchard 6-3 4-6 6-0
R1 - BYE
R2 - Genie Bouchard def. Alison Riske 7-6(3) 6-3
R3 - Belinda Bencic def. Genie Bouchard 6-4 3-0 ret
R1 - Ying-Ying Duan def. Genie Bouchard 7-6(3) 6-4
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It's a tough competition, but I would nominate this as the worst part of her season. 2 early losses in her first two tune-ups, including another big wasted lead against mental giant Slava were briefly remedied by a win over Genie's favorite person, Alison Riske. She actually started off fairly competitive against Belinda, but the ab injury from Indian Wells reappeared mid-match and Genie was forced to retire. Hampered by injury Genie suffers the worst loss of her year, being straight-setted by a beached super tanker in Wimbledon, the place where she won her junior slam and made the final last year.
US Open Series
R1 - Belinda Bencic def. Genie Bouchard 6-0 5-7 6-2
R1 - Genie Bouchard def. Kateryna Bondarenko 7-6 7-6
R2 - Elina Svitolina def. Genie Bouchard 7-6 7-5
R1 - Roberta Vinci def. Genie Bouchard 6-1 6-0
R1 - Genie Bouchard def. Alison Riske 6-4 6-3
R2 - Genie Bouchard def. Polona Hercoq 6-3 6-7 6-3
R3 - Genie Bouchard def. Dominica Cibulkova 7-6 4-6 6-3
R4 - Roberta Vinci def. Genie Bouchard w/o
Recovering from her injury (forced to withdraw from Washington), she fires Sam Sumyk and actually looks slightly improved. A loss to Belinda in 3 sets is nothing to be ashamed about given that Bencic went on to maul everything the WTA has to offer in this tournament. A mediocre showing in Cincy was followed by a shocking loss to Vinci in New Haven. All of a sudden, a wild Jimmy Connors appears in New York and Genie plays her best tournament since Australia. But after a great win against Pome, a high quality match by both players, Genie slips and falls in the locker room and hits her head, forced to withdraw from the tournament.
Asia
R1 - Andrea Petkovic def. Genie Bouchard 6-2 1-1 ret
Concussed by her accident in New York Genie is forced to withdraw from the first two tournaments of the Asian swing. She gives it a try in Beijing, but mid-match against Petko the symptoms of her concussion reappear and she has to retire. Then she calls it season.
Outlook
She worked with Thomas Högstedt on a trial basis in Asia, which to me looks like a good choice. But given her health struggles and the unpredictably of concussions I really don't know where she goes from here. Hoping for the best I guess.