{"id":17121,"date":"2025-07-29T01:10:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T05:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/ginny-bouchard-wins-to-expand-his-career-in-montreals-first-round\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T01:10:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T05:10:27","slug":"ginny-bouchard-wins-to-expand-his-career-in-montreals-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/ginny-bouchard-wins-to-expand-his-career-in-montreals-first-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Ginny Bouchard wins to expand his career in Montreal&#8217;s first round"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>MONTREAL &#8211; Ginny Bouchard extended his tennis career in at least one match on Monday, beating Emiliana Alango 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 in the first round of the National Bank Open.<\/p>\n<p>Bouchard, who reached the Wimbledon Finals and two other Grand Slam semi-finals in 2014, announced this month that he will retire after making his final appearance in a tournament in his hometown.<\/p>\n<p>She then opened it up with her first WTA Tour victory since 2023, and began to face the 300th time of her career &#8211; and 17-seeded Belinda Vensik.<\/p>\n<p>Bouchard reached fifth in the 2014 rankings, but the 31-year-old has mostly switched to pickleballs and has been given a wild card to the Montreal Tournament in just one game this season.<\/p>\n<p>After splitting the first two sets, Bouchard defeated 82nd place Arango twice (first on the forehand and then from a missed volley from Columbia) twice, building a 5-1 lead with a decisive third.<\/p>\n<p>Arango made Bouchard 5-2 for the match and Bouchard 5-2, but the Canadians rose 40 love in the subsequent games. Alango then sent a big backhand at Bouchard&#8217;s second match point.<\/p>\n<p>Bouchard kissed the crowd and blew them away after his victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I told my family that if I won, I would get out of retirement,&#8221; she said from the center court. &#8220;I felt like the old genie out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Emma Radcanu, who played just two days after losing in the semi-finals in Washington, defeated Elena Gabriella&#8217;s revenge 6-2, 6-4. Naomi Osaka has eliminated Ariana Arceneau 6-4, 6-2 in the first tournament since she announced she would no longer be working with manager Patrick Mouratoggle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL &#8211; Ginny Bouchard extended his tennis career in at least one match on Monday, beating Emiliana Alango 6-4, 2-6, 6-2 in the first round of the National Bank Open. Bouchard, who reached the Wimbledon Finals and two other Grand Slam semi-finals in 2014, announced this month that he will retire after making his final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[4283,317,4700,4282,4927,24,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-17121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-bouchard","9":"tag-career","10":"tag-expand","11":"tag-ginny","12":"tag-montreals","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-wins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}