[klr]

I'm afraid if it comes to the question of how well she would have done in the singles, that pasting she took from Vinci in New Haven is going to get trotted out.

 

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Eugenie Bouchard: Tennis star sues USTA after concussion at U.S. - NBC-2.com WBBH News for Fort Myers, Cape Coral & Naples, Florida



You can bet that Genie's legal team will be using this when looking at damages.

IIRC, when that SportsSpro article originally came to light, it was roundly trashed in these parts, and not just because of the prominence it gave to Bouchard. It will be interesting to see their facts and methodologies put under the microscope in a court of law.

 

[klr]

"As a result of Ms Bouchard withdrawing from the 2015 U.S Open and subsequent tournaments, her world ranking and fallen thirteen spots, and is likely to drop further."

So much LOL

Well it's true :shrug:

No, because she might have lost to Vinci anyway, and she might well have have lost in subsequent tournaments - or not even played them. That statement implies that she would not have fallen in the rankings at all but for the accident. Expect that to get robustly challenged in a court of law. The USTA legal team will be going over her playing record with a fine tooth comb.

 

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So if I understand it correctly, Bouchard is claiming loss of earnings that assume she would have won singles, doubles and mixed at the US Open and then singles in Beijing, Wuhan & Tokyo? Full marks for positive thinking I suppose but hardly realistic :lol:

Joking aside, this question of whether or not she had any business going into the physiotherapy room unaccompanied would seem to have merit if the main lights were out and the trainers and physios were gone.

I hope the jury enjoys watching the replay in full of the New Haven match with Roby, which will be entered as defence exhibit #37. Who said jury duty is always boring?

 

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No one posted this article here?


In her first public comments since the US Open, Canadian tennis star Eugenie Bouchard won't commit to January's Australian Open
By Stephanie Myles
19 November, 2015 11:39 AM
Eh Game

Asked about whether she was looking forward to January's Australian Open, the first major of the 2016 season and her best tournament effort of the 2015 season, Bouchard was vague.

"I don’t know yet. I don’t want to make any comments or commitments in terms of that. Just doing my best to try to get healthy, and yeah, just want to stay positive," she said.

She's making it sound as if she has a choice in the matter. If she declares herself fit and healthy, she has no choice but to play the AO. Of course, it might suit her purposes to to be unfit ...

...

Morelli reiterated his stance that despite Bouchard's struggles in 2015, the 21-year-old had a legitimate shot at the US Open and the accident cost her a legitimate opportunity.

"My argument is, this is a young woman, at 21 years old, has already reached the semi-finals in two majors, the finals at Wimbledon, and was once ranked five in the world. The woman who won the US Open (Flavia Pennetta), was 32, never won a major and as soon as she won, she retired. And Serena didn’t win, obviously," he said. "Genie was already in the round of 16. She was playing really, really well, and anyone who knows tennis knows the round of 16, not that bad. Not bad at all."

(...)

This is just whistling past the graveyard, ignoring inconvenient facts.

Bouchard's early 2016 schedule remains unconfirmed.

She reportedly was not interested in returning to Perth, Australia the first week of January to take part in the Hopman Cup, a mixed exhibition event she played in 2014 with Milos Raonic and this year with Vasek Pospisil. It would have been a perfect, no-pressure way to easy back into competition after what will essentially be four months away.

It makes it sound as if she had a big say in whether Canada would take part in the Hopman Cup next year. Well, maybe she had some influence. After all, she's the only viable option for a Canadian female player in that competition.

Rather, reports this week were that Bouchard is already entered in the WTA tournament in Shenzen, China, which takes place the same week and is arguably the most low-profile of the tournaments on the schedule that week. (The others are in Brisbane, Australia - a Premier event with a tougher field and more prize money - and Auckland, New Zealand, which is a lot closer to the site of the Australian Open in Melbourne).

As for the week before the Australian Open, which begins Jan. 18, Bouchard's currently-fallen ranking is likely to keep her out of another Premier event in Sydney, one she has played twice before. It's a 32-player draw and the average ranking cutoff over the last six editions has been No. 31 – a long way from Bouchard's currently WTA Tour ranking of No. 48.

She would need a wild card to avoid the relative ignominy of qualifying, and the tournament generally awards its available free passes to Australian players.

It's a 28-player draw, but yes, she's very unlikely to get in. She may not have gotten in event without being injured.

The other option would be a tournament Hobart, Tasmania, an International-level event. That's the lowest tier on the WTA Tour; Bouchard played just one tournament at that level in 2015, a grass-court tuneup in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands before Wimbledon.

It's also the level where she's won her only WTA title to date.

She will be unseeded at the Australian Open, and therefore at the mercy of the draw gods to avoid facing a top player as early as the first round.

Well duh. Again, she might have been unseeded anyway.

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/e...l?soc_src=mediacontentsharebuttons&soc_trk=tw

All that is assuming she is fit, eager and ready to go as 2016 dawns. If she is, she will be under pressure from the get-go.

She was under pressure all last year ... well, since after the AO anyway. This time, it's just going to start a few weeks earlier.

 

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Genie routined Flavia in their only match they played in 2015. If you wanna play that game...

Assuming no other changes to results, Bouchard would have had to get past Vinci, Mladenovic and Serena first, before she could even get to play Flavia. By far the easiest of those three would be Mladenovic, and she was 2-0 against Genie this year. Vinci we know about. As for Serena ... just because Roby beat her, it does not make it more likely that Genie would have done so, unless you want to argue that Serena was so nervous that day she could have lost to any number of players, and I don't buy that for one minute. Nerves played a part, but so did Roby's particular style of play. That would have caused Genie even more problems than it did for Serena. Genie won 3 rounds against players with a very similar style to her own. Any competent defence team will be ready and willing to make these points, if it has to.

 

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It's a court of law, not a tennis prediction contest.

In terms of tennis analysis, I don't disagree with anything you say. But fundamentally, sports matches are played because we do not know the outcome. Tennis analysis is not legal proof.

It works the other way round, too, but her legal team are not arguing that Bouchard would have won the US Open. They're over-egging their rhetoric to emphasise that she was denied the chance to compete at a point when that possibility - not probability - was still alive.

I doubt she'll be awarded the champion's prize money, if that's what bothers people. It's just a legal manoeuvre. But definitively stating that she would or would not have lost Match X or Match Y will have no place in the judgment, and no amount of "logical" analysis will change that.

It's not the basic outcome (which is itself in doubt), but the potential damages that are at issue here. It's Genie's own legal team that is speaking of "millions and millions", to quote Ben Rothenberg. They've opened the door. If it comes to the point of computing or contesting damages, I don't see how this sort of analysis can be avoided.

 

[klr]

Well at least with USD 1.6 million in her account, she could finally buy herself a brain. Not attitude though :shrug:

Her budget might also stretch to a proper dress.

I wonder if we'll ever find out the full details of the judgement? Unlikely I'd say.

 

[klr]

How does this guy sleep at night, spouting nonsense like this?

Let's see him try that line of argument in court.

 

[klr]

It was first posted on March 31 evening Eastern timezone, so it can't be a joke right?

It's funny alright, just not intentionally so.

 

[klr]

I wonder how likely it was the judge would refuse to clear the courtroom for the damages discussion?* It seems to have been a critical moment. Bouchard probably couldn't discuss the details of her endorsements in public.

Maybe the USTA was right to let this go to trial after all. It might have known for a very long time that it was going to be liable for damages, but the goal was to minimise them.

*EDIT: Not likely at all, reading Ben Rothenberg's tweets, which also emphasised how all her social media activity would be used against her by the USTA, and the judge also refused a request to declare it inadmissible

 

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Can't say I like her or know her that much for that matter, but wouldn't that be a hoot if she tweeted that just to get the haters to go crazy (regardless of whether it actually happened) :lol:

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." - Hanlon'sRazor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

 

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I agree. They weren't here for her shit, and they knew she'd fold for a fraction of what she was seeking when it came time to reveal what she's actually making while playing challengers, flashing her bits for magazines, and prostrating herself on social media.

And she didn't mind dragging this out because this is the only thing keeping her in the in the headlines and painting her as a damsel in distress.

You might have meant to say prostituting herself, but prostrating herself works just as well in this context :lol:

It's hard to find a tennis player with no redeeming quality whatsoever. If Genie wants to blame someone for her tragic fall in the rankings, she should look in the mirror but I'm sure what she only sees in the mirror is the "most beautiful tennis player" since sliced bread.

Sliced bread was a beautiful tennis player?

Genie and slicing don't go well together