Bouchard Sues USTA

Bouchard Sues USTA, Eugenie Bouchard has amorphous acknowledged activity adjoin the United States Tennis Association afterwards adversity blow afterward a abatement at the US Open.

The Canadian slipped in the locker allowance at the Grand Slam accident in September.

She withdrew from the clash above-mentioned to a fourth-round bout and pulled out of her improvement accident at the China Open on 5 October because of dizziness.

The accusation alleges the 21-year-old apple amount 39 slipped on "a adopted and alarming substance" in New York.

It aswell alleges apathy and includes a appeal for a board trial, with Bouchard gluttonous amercement from the USTA and USTA National Tennis Center.

Her lawyer, Benedict Morelli, told the New York Times the actuality was a charwoman abettor advised to be larboard on the attic brief if the allowance would no best be used.

He claimed they could be gluttonous amercement account "millions and millions" of dollars.Seeded 25th at Flushing Meadows, the 2014 Wimbledon runner-up suffered a arch abrasion in a abatement afterwards arena alloyed doubles on 4 September.

The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, includes the accusation Bouchard "was acquired to blooper and abatement on a alarming action created by the defendants in the physiotherapy allowance accessory to the women's locker room".

It is claimed the defendants either acquired or should accept accepted of the attic condition, and that Bouchard was not fabricated acquainted that it was slippery.

The accusation adds Bouchard abiding a "severe abrasion to her head, including, but not bound to, a concussion", and the abrasion aswell acquired her to abjure or retire from the consecutive Japan Open, Wuhan Open, China Open and Hong Kong Open tournaments, consistent in a abatement of 13 baronial places.

It aswell says she continues to ache affliction as a aftereffect of the fall, consistent in medical costs and a accident of income, and it affects her superior of life.

The USTA has beneath to animadversion on the lawsuit.
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