Canadian tennis player Eugenie Bouchard announced on 16 July that she will retire from the sport after competing at the National Bank Open, a WTA 1000 event in her hometown of Montreal scheduled for 26 July to 7 Aug. 2025. Tournament organisers have granted the 31-year-old a main-draw wild card so she can end her career where it began. Bouchard surged to No. 5 in the world during a breakout 2014 season, reaching the Wimbledon final and the semifinals of both the Australian Open and Roland Garros—milestones that made her the first Canadian singles player to appear in a Grand Slam championship match. She captured her lone WTA singles title in Nuremberg that year and was voted the tour’s most improved player. Injuries and inconsistency stalled her progress, including a concussion from a locker-room fall at the 2015 US Open and shoulder surgery that sidelined her for 17 months in 2021-22. Now ranked No. 1,078, Bouchard has played sparingly on the tour and has also appeared in Major League Pickleball. Across a professional record of 299 wins and 228 losses, Bouchard earned nearly US$7 million in prize money and helped Canada capture its first Billie Jean King Cup title in 2023. “Few athletes have left as profound a mark on Canadian tennis,” Tennis Canada chief executive Gavin Ziv said, adding that the federation will honour her during the Montreal tournament.