It’s been a year since Eugenie Bouchard She hung up her racket to dedicate herself to pickleball, a sport that, as the Canadian already knows, entails greater danger than tennis.
Genie had to go to the emergency room after a palazo involuntary while training to this sport that combines tennis, paddle tennis and badminton. The impact went directly to her left eye, scraping the former tennis player’s cornea.
An event that Bouchard has taken with humor, even sharing an image on her social networks in which the protagonist is seen wearing a patch to protect the organ. “I got hit in the eye with a pickleball during practice today. It was a blow from my partner’s shovel that hit me directly in the eye. I went to the emergency room and scratched my cornea. The things we do for this sport! It will heal in a matter of days.”
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