Eugenie Bouchard, who admits that she hasn’t been playing well this year, says she is adjusting to a new status and new coach but eventually will win again. The world No. 7 reached the quarterfinals at the Australian Open, but she has gone 2-4 since then, losing in the first round at Miami, and also in Charleston as the top seed.
"Maybe there’s an adjustment period,” she told *The Guardian*. "I had this memory of Tiger Woods, when he changes his stroke, he says it himself [that] there’s going to be a slump before it gets better. It’s the same thing, it’s a big change. I was used to someone for a while, so I have to accept that it’s going to go down before it goes up, and you’ve got to just keep working and working, and know that there’s going to be light at the end of the tunnel."
Bouchard hired Sam Sumyk after the Australian Open. Sumyk left Victoria Azarenka after coaching her for five years. "I do expect big things, but I’m going to try to not put as much pressure on myself as I think I did at the end of last year, and I realize that you can’t be perfect," the 21-year-old Bouchard said. "That’s something that [Sumyk] has been saying to me. And you will probably lose every week of the year, besides a couple weeks, hopefully. "