Chinese debutant Duan beats 2014 runner-up Bouchard
ByReuters
Published 30/06/2015 at 17:14 GMT
Eugenie Bouchard's fall from grace continued with a first-round defeat by China's Duan Yingying at Wimbledon on Tuesday as her hopes of repeating last year's run to the final evaporated.
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The Canadian 12th seed, crushed by Petra Kvitova in last year's showpiece, was beaten 7-6(3) 6-4 on Court Three and her ranking will now slide considerably.
Since reaching the quarter-finals of the Australian Open in January she has suffered eight first-round defeats.
Bouchard let slip a 2-0 lead in the opening set and after clawing back a 3-0 deficit in the first-set tiebreaker she capitulated with some unforced errors.
World number 117 Duan stayed cool when she served for the match at 5-4 in the second set, the Wimbledon debutant forcing Bouchard into a forehand error to seal victory.
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