MONTREAL — The pressure got to Eugenie Bouchard and it put Canada’s top women’s tennis player out of the US$2.4 million Rogers Cup. Pavlyuchenkova, seeded 16th, let two match points slip away while leading 5-4 in the second set and then lost the game on a double fault. After impressive wins over higher-ranked Lucie Safarova and Dominika Cubulkova, Bouchard fell 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 to unheralded qualifier Kristina Kucova in the third round on Thursday night. An all-American battle saw Madison Keys breeze by 36-year-old Venus Williams 6-1, 6-7 (2), 6-3 in one hour 50 minutes. The gritty Kucova, who upset eighth seeded Carla Suarez-Navarro in the second round, advanced to a quarter-final Friday night against 15th seeded Johanna Konta of Britain.

Source: National Post July 29, 2016 05:03 UTC