Eugenie Bouchard has disappeared.
The No. 7 female tennis player in the world suffered yet another ugly early exit Wednesday, losing 6-3, 6-1 to 66th-ranked Lauren Davis in the second round of the Family Circle Cup in Charleston, S.C., SI.com reported.
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Bouchard is a shell of her 2014 self, having lost three straight matches and starting 2015 with a 6-5 record. She made a respectable showing at the Australian Open, bowing out in the quarterfinals to eventual finalist Maria Sharapova.
Since then, the Canadian-born player has lost her first match in three of her last four tournaments. She did manage two wins at Indian Wells before losing a three-set match to 85th-ranked Lesia Tsurenko in the round of 16. In that match, she had a 4-1 lead in the third set before melting down.
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"I definitely felt a little bit slow today, overpowered, which is never usually the case," Bouchard said of her latest upset, having made 33 unforced errors compared to 12 winners against Davis. "Usually, I'm the one dominating. So it was definitely just not good. Whatever happened was not good."
In the offseason, Bouchard split with coach Nick Saviano, who had been coaching her since she was 12. She then hired Diego Ayala, who coached her through the Australian Open. SI.com reported that Bouchard then hired Sam Sumyk, who previously coached Victoria Azarenka. Bouchard now is 2-4 under Sumyk's tutelage.
The Winnipeg Sun announced that Bouchard was left off the roster for Canada's Fed Cup team when it competes next month against Romania.
Bouchard entered 2015 with the notion of playing fewer matches, but because she had been struggling, she accepted a wildcard to Charleston, where she was a semifinalist last year.
"I like playing matches more [than practice]. So that was my idea, but maybe it's not the right one,"Bouchard said. "So it's little things like that where you gotta take a step back and think, O.K., clearly I'm not doing something right or someone around me isn't doing something right, so I need to find out what that is and try and make it better."
Bouchard added that she now will do some soul-searching to try to get an understanding of what's happening to her.
"I think as soon as I got off the court, [I felt] definitely a bit of anger, but also kind of this confusion/quest to find what's wrong, like this searching feeling that, O.K., I know something's off," Bouchard said. "I know something's not right. So I want to find it. And I know so much can get better, and I know I can do better."
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