Genie Bouchard knew just where to turn with her season on the brink.
The promising young Canadian tennis star put in a call to the legendary Jimmy Connors with the hopes that the five-time US Open champion could help revive her stalled career.
“I’ve known Jimmy for a couple of years actually,” Bouchard said ahead of her second-round match with Polona Hercog at the US Open. “He’s been a friend. He was here this week. We just decided to work together for a couple days, even though we knew he was leaving. He left [Sunday] night.”
Tennis fans and reporters were abuzz on the Internet last week when pictures surfaced of the 62-year-old Connnors working with the 21-year-old Bouchard at both the West Side Tennis Club and the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.
“We’re just friends,” Connors told The New York Times.
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