You may never possess the groundstrokes of Genie Bouchard, but you can train like the former Wimbledon finalist.
So what's the secret to Bouchard's fitness?
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About six hours of training "five and a half days a week" and plenty of potassium from eating a bunch of bananas every day.
“I always have my energy bars and energy gels [on hand]. And bananas, definitely. All tennis players eat like five bananas a day,” Bouchard tells Self Magazine in a new interview.
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Asked to select her dinner dream date, Bouchard chose an icon: Oprah.
"Someone that I’m really inspired by, and that I look up to, is Oprah," Bouchard tells Self. "It’s amazing how she created such an empire. I love those inspiring stories. I would just ask her what it was like and what she would say to herself to keep believing or keep going when times are tough.”
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