The United States Tennis Association on Thursday was found mostly liable for when Canadian player Eugenie Bouchard slipped on a wet locker room floor at the 2015 U.S. Open and hit her head, suffering what she said was a "serious head injury" that changed the course of her career. It determined the USTA was 75 per cent to blame and Bouchard was 25 per cent to blame. Bouchard, 23, had just played in a mixed doubles match when she returned to the locker room at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens shortly after 10 p.m. Minutes later, she fell on the tile floor of a physiotherapy room inside the locker room. 116, said she hasn't been the same player since she fell in the locker room. Lawyers for the USTA, the sport's national governing body, didn't immediately respond to requests for comment after Thursday's verdict.

Source: CBC News February 22, 2018 23:26 UTC