After “Random Mistake,” Bouchard and Hogstedt on Same Page Again

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After “Random Mistake,” Bouchard and Hogstedt on Same Page Again

Eugenie Bouchard says that a “random mistake and misunderstanding,” coupled with a “bad decision” on her part led to her original parting of ways with coach Thomas Hogstedt last season.

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But since the pair have reunited in 2017, the Canadian says that they have picked up where they left off, and are enjoying a productive relationship again.

“When we were working together for the first time, we actually kind of meshed really well. We really loved working together,” Bouchard explained to reporters at the Apia International Sydney this week. “We had a great time. It was just kind of a random mistake and misunderstanding, and, you know, bad decision on my part, bad decision on his part that it ended. I won't go into details, but it wasn't because of any of the tennis or, you know, the things we were doing together.”

Bouchard says that when she reflected on her season she realized that Hogstedt had helped her quite a bit.

“At the end of the year, looking back, I realized he helped me a lot,” she said. “So I reached out, and, you know, to my surprise, he was eager and wanted to even though, you know, I was still lowly ranked and he had a great season with another player.”

Hogstedt spent most of his 2016 guiding Madison Keys to a Top-10 ranking, but the arrangement ended with the season.

“So he literally gave me the confidence that I did know that we both really enjoyed working together. We kind of took off where we left off and put it behind us, and are enjoying it again,” she said.

Bouchard reached the semifinals in Sydney, defeating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Dominika Cibulkova before falling to Johanna Konta. It was her first semifinal in ten months.

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