Rafael Nadal’s Strange Stat Makes Eugenie Bouchard ‘Want to Throw Up’

Former World No.5 Eugenie Bouchard hung up her racket after losing her second-round match at the Canadian Open.

Rafael Nadal’s Strange Stat Makes Eugenie Bouchard ‘Want to Throw Up’

Rafael Nadal, Eugenie Bouchard (Image via X/Olly Tennis, Women in Sports)

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Rafael Nadal‘s name has become synonymous with clay, given that it’s on this surface that he lifted 63 of his 92 singles titles, which also included his 14 French Open wins. On clay, he also has a win-loss record of 484–51.

The strange thing about this stat is this – he has more titles on the red dirt than defeats. And Eugenie Bouchard, who joined Nadal on the list of retired players after her Canadian Open exit, just can’t believe it.

This makes me want to throw up.

Eugenie Bouchard wrote on X

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Nadal also has a record 112–4 win-loss record at the French Open. His last defeat came at the 2024 French Open, where eventual runner-up Alexander Zverev ended his run in the first round. A few months later, the 22-time Grand Slam champion hung up his racket at the Davis Cup after Spain’s 2-1 defeat to the Netherlands.

The Spaniard captured his career’s last title at the 2022 French Open by breezing past Casper Ruud. After that final, he played just one championship match: at the 2024 Swedish Open, but ended up losing the match to Nuno Borges in straight sets.

Iga Swiatek recalls a match she had played against Eugenie Bouchard

Eugenie Bouchard called time on her career at the age of 31. The ongoing Canadian Open was Bouchard’s career’s last tournament. After knocking out Emiliana Arango, Bouchard fell in three sets against 17th seed Belinda Bencic in the second round.

Iga Swiatek
Iga Swiatek (Image via X/Cycling on TNT Sports)

At the Canadian Open, Iga Swiatek is also playing. And in the pre-tournament press conference, she was asked whether she had watched any of Bouchard’s matches.

I’ve got to say I wasn’t watching too much of tennis. I only watched Rafa, but besides that, I had to go to school and practice, so when I came back home and I saw my parents watching tennis, I was like, okay, that’s enough, you know?

Swiatek locked horns with Bouchard only once in her career. They met in the 2020 French Open third round, which the Pole won before reaching the final and beating Sofia Kenin to win her career’s first Grand Slam title.

So I don’t remember much, but obviously I remember when we played and yeah…I don’t remember much, so I can’t say a lot, but this match that we played was, I think, solid from both sides, and we played on clay, and it was like the…I don’t know…the beginning of me, like confirming to myself that I can be good on clay. The only match I played on Simonne Mathieu, so I remember it.

Iga Swiatek added

In her career, Bouchard had played eight finals but was successful in winning just one title- the 2014 Nuremberg Cup by beating Karolina Pliskova. She last reached a final at the 2021 Abierto Zapopan, which she lost to Sara Sorribes Tormo.

Swiatek, on the other hand, is a 23-time singles titlist. Her 23rd title came at this year’s Wimbledon by beating Amanda Anisimova with a 6-0, 6-0 scoreline. It was her first title of the season, plus her first since her victory at the 2024 Roland Garros.

Before Wimbledon, she played her career’s first final on grass but couldn’t beat Jessica Pegula. The six-time Grand Slam champion has never reached the final of the Canadian Open, with her semifinal appearance in 2023 being her best performance in the tournament so far. She had skipped the tournament last year.

Swiatek, this season in the tournament, has reached the fourth round and will face Clara Tauson next. The Dane knocked out Yuliia Starodubtseva to schedule the match against the World No.3.

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