Bouchard wins 1st WTA title at Nuremberg Cup
Canada's Eugenie Bouchard, 20 years old, won her first WTA title Saturday.
Bouchard beat Karolina Pliskova 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 in the Nuremberg Cup final. She was up 4-2 in the second set, and appeared poised for a relatively easy victory, before she dropped five games in a row and found herself trailing in the third and final set.
It was the first set Bouchard, seeded second at the tournament, lost all week, and she responded to Pliskova's challenge, coming back to secure the win, and ending her three-match losing streak on clay.
Eugenie Bouchard on 1st career title: "It's a stepping stone for me"
— Mark Masters (@markhmasters) May 24, 2014
Bouchard's hoping to use that stepping stone as she heads off to Paris for the French Open. She's expected to be ranked 16th in the world after he Nuremberg win, and is seeded No. 18 at Roland Garros. She'll face Shahar Peer in the first round.