(Chennai) Eugenie Bouchard had a tough day at the Chennai tournament on Friday.
Updated yesterday at 3:12 p.m.
The Quebecer had to withdraw from her doubles match at the end of the day due to an injury, a few hours after being eliminated in the quarter-finals of the singles tournament.
Bouchard and her doubles partner, Belgian Yanina Wickmayer, were trailing 3-6, 1-1 against Russia’s Anna Blinkova and Georgia’s Natela Dzalamidze when the 28-year-old had to withdraw due to a mysterious injury.
This match had started only a few minutes after Bouchard lost in three sets of 1-6, 6-4, 6-2 at the expense of Argentina’s Nadia Podoroska.
Bouchard returned to action last month after a 17-month hiatus caused by a right shoulder injury that required surgery.
Blinkova and Dzalamidze will face for the title the winners of the other semi-final which will take place on Saturday between the favorites, the Ontarian Gabriela Dabrowski and the Brazilian Luisa Stefani, and the pair formed by the Thai Peangtarn Plipuech and the Japanese Moyuka Uchijima .
After dominating the first set of her singles match, Bouchard, 902e in the WTA rankings, conceded two breaks at the start of the second set to allow Podoroska to take control of the match.
Bouchard needed a medical break midway through the second set.
Podoroska entered the final set with two breaks in the first three games to take a 3-0 lead before play was interrupted by a thunderstorm. When play resumed, Bouchard got the break, but she failed to materialize her comeback.
For her part, the Canadian Rebecca Marino lost 7-6 (10), 6-3 in front of the Polish Magda Linette, seeded third, in the quarter-finals.
Marino was trying to reach the semi-finals of a WTA tournament for the second time in his career. She had appeared in the Cellular South Cup final in Memphis, Tennessee, in February 2011.