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women’s final, between 2011 champion Petra Kvitová and 20-year-old Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, is a mouth-watering contest, pitting the two form players against each other – they have only dropped one set between them so far. Something has got to give, but I really wouldn’t be confident about picking a winner.
I’ve known Genie, as she is called on the tennis circuit, for a decade now. We are the same age and in my first tournament abroad – a small under-12 competition in France – we were actually paired together by chance in the doubles, because I couldn’t speak French then, and she hailed from Westmount, which is an English-speaking enclave in Montreal.
It’s amazing to see how Genie’s game has improved – she has been playing so well this year. Already she has made two grand slam semi-finals, in Australia and French, and now she has become the first Canadian to reach the final in SW19.
She certainly seems to be able to put it together when it really counts, though, and on Monday will break in to the top-10 for the first time. She is currently 13th in the rankings, but she should be eighth or higher, depending on how her final with Petra goes.
Genie has played on Centre Court a couple of times this Championships already, and is yet to drop a set. She may be nervous, but she has a knack of not showing it and her rivals think that she won’t drop mentally
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