Eugenie Bouchard potwierdza, że ona i Maria Szarapowa rzeczywiście miały „konflikt”.

Eugenie Bouchard has made quite a revelation to tennis fans as the 30-year-old Canadian confirms that she and Maria Sharapova indeed had “a feud” going on.

In 2017, the tennis world was left stunned after Bouchard had the guts to publicly call Sharapova “a cheater” just when she was returning from her 15-month doping that she received after testing positive for the banned substance meldonium.

Then what made it really interesting is that Bouchard played against Sharapova in the Madrid Open second round shortly after those comments. When Bouchard took to the court, it was evident that she was very motivated to beat the former five-time Grand Slam champion and she managed to do so after claiming a 7-5 2-6 6-4 win.

After that 2017 Madrid campaign that was probably one of the most entertaining of Bouchard’s career when taking some things into account, she didn’t play at Caja Magica again until last year. And in her Madrid return, Bouchard started by beating Dayana Yastremska, who was also banned before being cleared to return to tennis.

“There’s something about playing dopers in Madrid,” Bouchard wrote on X after beating Yastremska. The post was instantly noticed by tennis fans and screenshotted before the Canadian deleted it.