Eugenie Bouchard has poured gasoline throughout a long-running feud in a controversial, since deleted, Twitter submit.
The present world quantity 285 reignited the flame following her first spherical victory on the Madrid Open on Thursday.
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The 29-year-old defeated Dayana Yastremska 6-7, 6-2, 6-2 to e book her spot within the spherical of 64 the place she’ll tackle the 18th seeded Martina Trevisan.
Shortly after her victory the Canadian took to social media with a controversial submit that was deleted not lengthy after.
Unfortunately for Bouchard she forgot that the web doesn’t overlook along with her submit being captured by followers all over the world.
The submit had a photograph of Bouchard with a celebratory clench of the fist, nevertheless it was the caption that precipitated uproar.
“There’s something about playing dopers in Madrid,” she wrote in a shot at her opening spherical opponent and a clip to her former rival Maria Sharapova.
Yastremska was handed a provision suspension again in 2021 after testing constructive for anabolic steroid mesterolone.
Her ban was finally lifted in June, 2021 after it was introduced by the International Tennis Federation she “bore no fault or negligence” for the failed check.
Despite that ruling Bouchard nonetheless composed and hit ship on the tweet after her victory over the Ukrainian.
The tweet additionally served as a shot at former world primary Sharapova who Bouchard defeated in the course of the Madrid Open again in 2017.
The pair faced-off in the course of the spherical of 32 with Bouchard rising victorious 7-5, 2-6, 6-4.
Bouchard was a vocal critic of the Russian who served a 15-month ban after utilizing the center drug meldonium.
In a blistering assault on the time, the Canadian slammed her rival saying the ban wasn’t lengthy sufficient whereas labelling her a “cheater”.
“I don’t think that’s right. She’s a cheater,” Bouchard informed Turkey’s TRT World. “I don’t think a cheater at any sport should be allowed to play that sport again. It’s so unfair to all the other players who do it the right way and are true. I think from the WTA it sends the wrong message to young kids: ‘Cheat and we’ll welcome you back with open arms.’
“I don’t think that’s right, and definitely not someone I look up to anymore because it’s definitely ruined it for me a little bit.”
Source: www.news.com.au
