Petkovic rallies past Canadian Eugenie Bouchard at Family Circle Cup
CHARLESTON, S.C. – Montreal’s Eugenie Bouchard couldn’t finish off German Andrea Petkovic on Saturday at the Family Circle Cup women’s tennis tournament.
Bouchard was two games away from recording the win and advancing to her second WTA Tour final. But the ninth-ranked Petkovic rallied for the 1-6, 6-3, 7-5 victory and hand the 20-year-old Bouchard her third loss in as many head-to-head meetings between the two.
Playing her third straight three-set match, Bouchard was just one point away from going ahead 5-2 in the third. But Petkovic broke Bouchard twice down the stretch to advance to her first championship since Washington, D.C., last August where she fell to Magdalena Rybarikova in straight sets.
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With files from The Associated Press.
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