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Bouchard’s Attorney on Lawsuit: “It’s Difficult to Know if this Is War”



Benedict Morelli, attorney for Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard, told ESPN’s Peter Bodo that he had hoped to settle Bouchard’s case against the USTA out of court, but that might not be the case.

Read the Full Article at ESPN.com Here

According to this piece, published at ESPN on Thursday, the New York lawyer says he sent a letter about Bouchard’s grievances to four top officials at the USTA. Instead of hearing directly from the officials, he heard from their attorney. “If I send a letter to four of your top guys and the response is that your lawyer calls me,” Morelli said to Bodo. “I get the message."

According to Bodo, Morelli says that he has not instructed Bouchard to stay out of action. “I am not keeping her off the court,” he told Bodo. “Her doctor has given her the protocols for resuming training.”

The gist of the case from Bouchard is determining what exactly the damages have been. She was still alive in three separate draws in New York, and in the aftermath of the injury she missed out on numerous opportunities to play and earn prize money and endorsement opportunities.

It is rumored that the USTA would try to argue in a court that Bouchard has been in a slump. It’s an angle that Morelli is prepared to vehemently defend. "If they want to go up against someone and claim that this 21-year old was in a slump when she was in the round of 16 in the US Open, I'm their guy," Morelli said, according to Bodo. "Look who won the tournament -- a 33-year-old [Flavia Pennetta] who had never even won a big one before."

According to the article, the USTA has 20 days to respond to Morelli’s initial filing, which was filed on October 14.

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