Although they are far from being at their peak, Canadians Milos Raonic and Eugénie Bouchard were named the best tennis players in Canada in 2018 by the local Tennis Federation. Both men have already been finalists at Wimbledon.
Former world number 3 and current 18th, Raonic suffered from injuries in 2017, returned in 2018, but failed to win a single title. The 27-year-old’s best results were a second place in Stuttgart, Germany, the semi-finals of the Masters 1000 in Indian Wells, USA, and the quarter-finals of Wimbledon, a Grand Slam in which he was a finalist in 2016.
“Milos has had some important wins and strong campaigns this year to return to the top 20,” said Federation President Michael Downey.
Recalling that Milos Raonic surpassed, in the general ranking, the young Denis Shapovalov, aged 19, who won the “Most Improved Player of the Year” award, entering the top 30 for the first time in his career, being a semi-finalist at the Masters 1000 in Madrid, Spain, and finished 2018 in 27th place.
Bouchard wins the women’s championship
Wimbledon runner-up in 2014 and former number 5 in the rankings, Eugénie Bouchard won the award for best Canadian tennis player for the fifth time in her career.
Currently 87th on the WTA list, Eugenie, 24, had the WTA semi-finals in Luxembourg and Gstaad, Switzerland as her best campaigns last season.
“Prone to fits of apathy. Beer evangelist. Incurable coffeeaholic. Internet expert.”
